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ActionAid is an international anti-poverty agency whose aim is to fight poverty worldwide. Formed in 1972, for over 30 years we have been growing and expanding to where we are today - helping over 13 million of the world's poorest and most disadvantaged people in 42 countries worldwide.
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Displaying 26 - 30 of 53Secure and equitable land rights in the Post-2015 Agenda – A key issue in the future we want
As organizations working on food security, natural resources management and poverty eradication, we strongly encourage governments to keep the profile of land and natural resources high in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda document to be endorsed in September 2015. Secure and equitable land rights are an essential element of an Agenda that has the ambition to be people-centred and planet-sensitive.
Secure and equitable land rights in the Post-2015 Agenda – A key issue in the future we want
As organizations working on food security, natural resources management and poverty eradication, we strongly encourage governments to keep the profile of land and natural resources high in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda document to be endorsed in September 2015. Secure and equitable land rights are an essential element of an Agenda that has the ambition to be people-centred and planet-sensitive.
Secure and equitable land rights in the Post-2015 Agenda – A key issue in the future we want
As organizations working on food security, natural resources management and poverty eradication, we strongly encourage governments to keep the profile of land and natural resources high in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda document to be endorsed in September 2015. Secure and equitable land rights are an essential element of an Agenda that has the ambition to be people-centred and planet-sensitive.
No land, no future. A community’s struggle to reclaim their land
Concerns the Senhuile-Senethanol investment in Ndiael, Senegal. Includes chronology of a dubious investment; social and environmental characteristics of the Ndiael area; consultation with local communities: a fool’s game; key information still missing; social and environmental impacts; corporate social responsibility projects: whitewashing or buying complacency?; conclusion and recommendations.
The Great Land Heist. How the world is paving the way for corporate land grabs
Includes the global scramble for land; drivers of land grabs – global crisis and public incentives; counting the cost of land grabs (disempowerment and marginalisation, displaced communities, human rights violations, women bear the brunt, lost livelihoods and increased food insecurity, social breakdown and cultural impacts); developing alternative models of investment; conclusions and recommendation to governments.