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Food Can Be the Key to a Long-Term Climate Change Solution
On Wednesday, John Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, provided the key to a long-term climate change solution: food.
There’s a lot of bad news in the UN Global Environment Outlook, but a sustainable future is still possible
The Sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6), the most comprehensive environmental assessment produced by the UN in five years, brought us both good and bad news.
The environment has continued to deteriorate since the first GEO-6 report in 1997, with potentially irreversible impacts if not effectively addressed. But pathways to significant change do exist, and a sustainable future is still possible.
Thinking equal, building smart and innovating for a change in Mongolia
What makes a daring woman? Lack of fear, commitment and vision for a great cause.
And why do we need more daring women? From gaps in paychecks, to domestic violence, to underrepresentation in political sphere, women face plenty of challenges and the time to act is now.
Righting colonial-era wrongs in land rights
Despite a legal ruling and international attention, Kenya's Ogiek people have continued to face evictions, underlining the inherent difficulties in implementing judgments
The continued dominance of colonial-imposed laws over pre-existing customary legal systems, has been the bane of land rights disputes involving indigenous peoples across the globe for many years.
Post-colonial states have been unable to address such issues since formal law has continued to prevail over ancient customary systems even post-independence.
Over 11 Million Face Forced Eviction in India, 2 Lakh Evicted in 2018 Alone: Study
‘Slum clearance’ or ‘city beautification’ drives accounted for nearly half of the evictions.
New Delhi: Over two lakh people were forcefully evicted from their homes in the year 2018, a new study by the Housing and Land Rights Network (HLRN) has found. The HLRN documented the demolition of 41,730 homes in 2018 that impacted the lives of 2,02,233 people. That is 554 people every day or 23 people every hour.
Women demand equal land rights from traditional leaders
Some traditional leaders continue with the old ways of regarding women as minors who need to be represented by men, Inyanda National Land Movement says.
Sick and tired of always being allocated the back seat and being represented by men when it comes to land, a group of women are saying “enough is enough” and are taking the fight to traditional leaders, whom they see as stumbling blocks to women’s right of access to land.
Zimbabwe to begin compensation for land-reform farmers
Zimbabwe is moving forward with a process to compensate former farm owners whose land was taken from them because they were white during the country’s fast-track land reform program (FTLRP).
“The registration process and the list of farmers should be completed by the end of April 2019, after which the interim advance payments will be paid directly to former farm owners by the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement,” the government said in a statement.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Land rights of tribals talking point in Bastar
Tribals insist that their land is most important and they will vote for those who will ensure that nobody takes their land
In the heart of Maoist stronghold of Bastar in Chhattisgarh, nationalism is not a vote catcher.
Tribals like Bheema Mandavi (35), claim that their right over land is the main poll issue.
Georgians uprooted by war stage four-day protest to demand new homes
The protesters said there was widespread frustration among those still waiting to be rehoused more than a decade after war drove them from their homes
TBILISI, April 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dozens of Georgian families occupied a tower block this week in a protest activists said highlighted widespread frustration among people still waiting to be rehoused more than a decade after war drove them from their homes.
Reforestation is critical to meeting Paris climate change accord targets, researchers say
'Urgency of climate crisis' is seen as demanding push for vast reforestation across U.S.
Climate change experts accept that reducing greenhouse gas emissions – even doing so substantially – won’t be sufficient for limiting atmospheric warming to the 2°C (3.6°F) goal of the Paris Climate Agreement. And with carbon capture technologies years away from maturity and widespread commercialization, one option is to take advantage of proven nature-based systems for sequestering carbon.