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Displaying 2181 - 2190 of 3363Amélioration de la gouvernance du secteur foncier en République Démocratique du Congo : La mise en oeuvre du cadre d'évaluation de la gouvernance foncière (CAGF) (French)
The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) is a diagnostic tool to assess the status of land governance at country level using a participatory process that draws systematically on existing evidence and local expertise rather than on outsiders.
Cadre d'Analyse de la Gouvernance Foncière en Côte d'Ivoire (French)
Cadre d'Analyse de la Gouvernance Foncière en Côte d'Ivoire (French)
Amélioration de la gouvernance du secteur foncier au Cameroun : Mise en oeuvre du cadre d’analyse de la gouvernance foncière (French)
The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) is a diagnostic tool to assess the status of land governance at country level using a participatory process that draws systematically on existing evidence and local expertise rather than on outsiders.
La gouvernance fonciére au Burundi : Evaluation avec le cadre d'analyse de la gouvernance foncière (French)
The Land Governance Assessment Framework (LGAF) is a diagnostic tool to assess the status of land governance at country level using a participatory process that draws systematically on existing evidence and local expertise rather than on outsiders.
As Indigenous Groups Wait Decades for Land Titles, Companies Are Acquiring Their Territories
The Santa Clara de Uchunya community has lived in a remote section of the Peruvian Amazon for generations. Like many indigenous groups, this community of the Shipibo-Konibo people have traditionally managed and relied on forests for hunting, fishing and natural resources.
But in 2014, someone started cutting down large sections of the community’s ancestral forests.
The Scramble for Land Rights
Increasing global demand for natural resources is intensifying competition for land across the developing world, pushing companies onto territories that many Indigenous Peoples and rural communities have sustainably managed for generations.
Can Komaza smallholder forestry initiative help grow sustainable futures?
BONN, Germany (Landscape News) — For Erasdus Jefwa Lazaro, a smallholder farmer and father-of-eight in rural coastal Kenya, the small stand of quick-growing eucalyptus and native malia trees on his land is better than money in the bank.
Three years on from planting their seedlings, the family have already thinned out the smaller trees and used the money to improve their house and install electricity.
All out to defend their land rights
MIRI: The Society for Rights of Indigenous People of Sarawak (Scrips) plans to stage street protests at various locations if the state assembly approves a proposed amendment to the Sarawak Land Code.
Scrips secretary-general Michael Jok said the Sarawak Land Code (Amendment) Bill must not be approved.
“The Bill will erode the rights of the natives with regards to their control over the use of our communal territories called Pemakai Menoa and Pulau Galau,” he told StarMetro after a meeting with native rights lawyers.
Mexican Presidential Election and Perspectives for the Country’s Indigenous Population
Mexico, one of Latin America’s big economic power houses, held presidential elections on 1 July 2018. The newly elected president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, was elected with 53% of the national vote for his left-wing progressive agenda, defeating the party of the outgoing president, Mr Peña Nieto. López Obrador promised the country’s indigenous peoples significant change, including recognition of land rights. Only time will tell whether his promises will turn reality.
Outgoing Colombian president calls for end to mounting violence against activists
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos spoke out on Monday to condemn the nation’s soaring violence against human rights leaders amid growing pressure that the government act more forcefully to end the bloodshed.
Activists are being gunned down at a rate of one every three days in the Latin American country, rights groups say, and last Friday thousands of Colombians held protests and candlelight vigils to call for the killings to stop.