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Colombian tribe scores ‘historic’ victory versus Big Gas
State company Ecopetrol pulls out of drilling site in territories belonging to the indigenous U’wa people.
The indigenous U’wa people living in north-east Colombia have won what observers call an “historic” and “decisive” victory after state oil and gas company Ecopetrol dismantled a gas drilling site in their territories.
Propuestas de la mujeres rurales para el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2014 – 2018
Durante la mañana de este jueves 26 de marzo, 11 organizaciones de mujeres rurales con el apoyo de Oxfam, la Unión Europea y Crece, desarrollaron el Foro “Propuestas de las mujeres rurales al Plan Nacional de Desarrollo”.
ActionAid new report on a land grab in Tanzania under the G8 New Alliance
In the Bagamoyo District, a lease of over 20.000 hectares of land is being secured for the next 99 years to a Swedish-owned company called EcoEnergy, for a sugar-cane plantation project supported by the African Development Bank, the International Fund for Agriculture and Development, and the Swedish International Development Agency.
Nouvelle suspension d’attribution de terrain de six mois : Bathily se trompe de combat et de cible
La décision interministérielle de suspendre les lotissements et les demandes de transformations de concessions rurales d’habitation en titre foncier prise le 25 février en conseil des ministres, vient prolonger la crise financière dans laquelle sont plongés les acteurs du foncier depuis plusieurs mois. Une crise, avec son corollaire de chômages, de fermeture de cabinets sous le poids des impôts etc. Et si le ministre se trompait de cible ?
How Egyptian farmers are adapting to water scarcity up and down a canal
If you wander up and down one of the many irrigation canals in Egypt’s Nile Delta, you’ll see a wide range of crops being grown. Fields of swelling water melons sit alongside leafy greens. Twirling grape vines back on to rows of cucumbers. But why have the farmers chosen to grow one crop rather than another? Is it simply because they have differing access to water? A new study undertaken by IWMI and partners* sought to better understand the reasons for crop choice, and has come up with some surprising conclusions.
Rights, resources and environmental impacts: A complex but crucial link
BY BARUANI MSHALE
It is well known that property rights, which govern how individuals can control, benefit from and transfer property, influence the condition of natural resources and environments around the world.
Yet there remains much to learn about the nature of that relationship.