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The urgency of securing community land rights in a turbulent world
Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, China, Indonesia, India
Amid the realities of major political turbulence, there was growing recognition in 2016 that the land rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities are key to ensuring peace and prosperity, economic development, sound investment, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Despite equivocation by governments, a critical mass of influential investors and companies now recognize the market rationale for respecting community land rights.
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Poor rural women in developing countries are critical to the survival of their families. Fertile land is their lifeline. But the number of people negatively affected by land degradation is growing rapidly. Crop failures, water scarcity and the migration of traditional crops are damaging rural livelihoods. Action to halt the loss of more fertile land must focus on households. At this level, land use is based on the roles assigned to men and women.
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A closer look at gender in the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology
The Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM) was developed by IUCN and the World Resources Institute (WRI) to assist countries in identifying opportunities for forest landscape restoration (FLR), analysing priority areas at a national or sub-national level, and designing and implementing FLR interventions. As part of IUCN’s effort to update the methodology, these guidelines have been developed to ensure the application of ROAM and the ensuing FLR implementation, including any policy uptake and land-use planning, is gender responsive.
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The purpose of the Guidelines for Impact Evaluation of Land Tenure and Governance Interventions (“the guidelines”) is to serve as a tool for both researchers and land sector experts in the design and conducting of land impact evaluations and ultimately broaden the evidence of what works and does not work and why in regard to measures meant to improve land tenure and governance.
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Com este artigo propõe-se numa das múltiplas arestas dessa clivagem (homem/mulher, civilização/natureza), a saber, a maneira em que os discursos e representações produzidos pela lógica moderna/patriarcal/capitalista são reproduzidos na cotidianidade das práticas agroalimentares numa região do sul global, a estética associada a essa ordem e sua relação com o papel da mulher na divisão do trabalho agrícola.
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Mujeres planteando alternativas al modelo de desarrollo extractivista
Latin America and the Caribbean
Defensoras de los territorios Mujeres planteando alternativas al modelo de desarrollo extractivista
Carmen Francisca de las Nieves Aliaga Monrroy
Antropóloga,
Responsable del Área de Investigación Social y de Género del Colectivo de Coordinación de Acciones Socio Ambientales (Colectivo CASA), a
ctivista del movimiento de mujeres ambientalistas y actualmente investigadora del programa de maestría del CIDES – UMSA en el área de Teoría Crítica.
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Training Resources & Tools
We, leaders of groups of women affected by the expansion of industrial monoculture plantations, particularly oil palm plantations, coming from all regions in Sierra Leone and different countries from West and Central Africa;
We, national and international organizations involved in the struggle for the rights of women and local communities in Africa, Latin America and Asia, signatories of this declaration, met from 14 to 15 August 2017 in Port Loko, Sierra Leone.
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