By Laura Meggiolaro, Land Portal Coordinator
As part of its localization strategy, the Land Portal is taking a collaborative approach to partner with existing networks and transform their land-related information into Linked Open Data. In the Greater Mekong, the Land Portal is working with a…
Date: 4 mars 2016
Source: Le Courrier
Par Christophe Koessler
De nombreux codes de conduite et autres «principes» volontaires ont été adoptés pour amenuiser les impacts négatifs d’achats de terres à grande échelle dans les pays du Sud. Leurres ou garde-fous?
La propriété privée continue à…
Date: 09 mars 2016
Source: La Tribune
Par Carlos Moreno
Le Salon de l'Agriculture vient de fermer ses portes à Paris. Rendez- vous incontournable du monde rural, lieu de rencontres avec les urbains mais également prisé par les responsables politiques, il met au premier plan les…
By Jolyne Sanjak
When land tenure experts like me write about the connection between land tenure and food security, we often focus on how secure rights to land tend to increase smallholder farmers’ productivity-enhancing investments. As studies in China, Thailand, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Ghana…
By Chris Jochnick, Landesa
Technology and social networks are the oft-cited parents of the sharing economy.
The two are largely credited with enabling us to trust strangers with our stuff, our homes and our lives – unlocking vast economic value in what was heretofore dead or underused…
Land is an incredibly valuable asset that represents many different things. Land is, first and foremost, a place to call home. For many, it also serves as a critical means of production that they depend on for their livelihoods. Finally, land is inextricably linked to a community's history and…
By Kaitlin Y. Cordes and Sam Szoke-Burke
How should governments address the concerns of their citizens tied to land investments? And do their legal obligations constrain their options for doing so?
These are increasingly complicated, and pressing, questions. The “land rush” since the turn of…
Forests are the lifeline and cultural heritage of at least 100 million indigenous peoples in Asia
The world’s remaining forests, the planet’s biodiversity, and rivers are found in indigenous peoples’ territories. However, rampant large-scale development projects without regard to the…
Par Aladji
Date: 28 mars 2016
Source: Radio Kankan
Aujourd’hui, à cause de la déforestation abusive de la forêt, l’humanité coure un grand danger. Chaque année, les méfaits de l’homme entraîne un recule de 7 millions d’hectares forestières et 50 millions d’hectares de terres forestières…
Source: Témoignages
Date: 23 mars 2016
Les forces agissant sur l’ensemble du monde de façon permanente ne sont pas prises en compte.
Tout d’abord le changement climatique. La conférence de Paris a pris des engagements pour la réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre et pour l’…
By Diana Suhardiman and Emily Koo
Laos has conceded a significant amount of land to foreign investors, with estimates placing 15% of the country’s land under foreign control. Such land concessions, or the granting of rights to land, are positioned by the government as critical to economic growth…
By Nicholas Tagliarino, Research Analyst at the World Resources Institute
Strong legal rights to land are crucial for Indigenous Peoples and local communities. When communities have weak or insecure land rights, such areas are particularly vulnerable to expropriation, land grabbing and…