Les presentamos una publicación donde procuramos la colaboración entre investigadores y docentes de los Departamentos de Tacuarembó y Cerro Largo de dos instituciones educativas públicas: el Consejo de Formación en Educación de la Administración Nacional de Educación Pública y la UDELAR.
The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is developing a general comment on Land and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The purpose of this general comment is to clarify the specific obligations of States parties relating to land and the governance of tenure of land under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
The recent spate of violence mostly in north-central and southern Nigeria, typically credited to conflicts between herders and farmers, and the reactions, narratives, and representations that have attended them, calls for an examination of core security questions: who or what is to be secured, from what threat and by what means. In fact, it could be further contextualized as: how is the conflict between farmers and herders constructed, framed, and represented as (in)security within the Nigerian context?
Perú: un contexto peligroso para defensores de la tierra y el medio ambiente1
Aldo Santos Ariasaldosanto@gmail.com
1. Marco general del país
Un reto del Estado peruano es garantizar la seguridad jurídica de las comunidades campesinas y nativas, y los 55 pueblos indígenas, cuyos territorios están expuestos a actividades ilegales o a la superposición de derechos.
Pensamiento crítico en el ámbito socioambiental y territorial de Chile
Alexander Panez Pinto
alexander.panez@gmail.com
Rodrigo Faúndez Vergara
rodrigofaundezv@gmail.com
Marco general del país
Las semillas bajo ataque: expoliación de la naturaleza y de los pueblos en el contexto latinoamericano de colonialidad y dependencia
Jana Caroline Farias Melo*
“Landscape approaches” seek to provide tools and concepts for allocating and managing land to achieve social, economic, and environmental objectives in areas where agriculture, mining, and other productive land uses compete with environmental and biodiversity goals. Here we synthesize the current consensus on landscape approaches. This is based on published literature and a consensus-building process to define good practice and is validated by a survey of practitioners.
The deforestation-free movement (or zero-deforestation) has emerged recently in a context of lower state control, globalization and pressure on corporations by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) through consumer awareness campaigns, acknowledging the essential role of agricultural commodities in deforestation. It takes the form of commitments by corporations to ensure that the products they either produce, process, trade or retail are not linked to forest conversion.
The Landassess Tool is a risk assessment and management framework. It provides a clear and simple set of checklists that generate a report to help companies assess and manage how they respect land rights.
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