“This plot is not for sale” are the six words you will find, marked on a lot of properties and plots of land in Uganda. The words are meant to ward off quack land or property brokers and conmen. Most of the cases handled in courts in Uganda, and Kampala in particular, are fraud-related cases (like selling land while the true owners are away using counterfeit titles) and land transaction fraud (when fake land titles are obtained and sadly some officers in the land registry are involved).

Last week the World Cocoa Foundation, a membership organization of more than 100 cocoa companies, held its annual partnership meeting in Berlin, Germany. The aim of the meeting is for governments, cocoa companies and farmers to identify and tackle the sector’s largest sustainability challenges. A 90-minute session was devoted to the topic of land tenure. The prominence of the session, as well as the seniority of the presenters – the Head of Sustainable Sourcing for Hershey’s and the Deputy Director General of Cote d’Ivoire’s Land Agency among them – is a powerful signaling effect.

por Taran Volckhausen  Traducido por Soledad Agüero

In the last 15 years, Paraguay lost a greater share of its forest than almost any other country on Earth. While soy farming once drove deforestation in the east, the focus of Paraguay's forest loss has since moved west to the low-lying, thorn-forested Chaco, where cattle ranching has claimed over 3.7 million hectares (9 million acres) of forest for pastureland – an area about the size of the Netherlands – between 2001 and 2015.

Un camino para superar la pobreza rural

Para su tesis doctoral en la U. de Oxford, el ecólogo Felipe Roa Clavijo analizó los procesos agrarios en Colombia entre 2013 y 2016. Su investigación, que ganó el premio Alejandro Ángel Escobar, encontró que la solución para impulsar el desarrollo rural es generar métodos de producción que dialoguen con el medio ambiente.

Cascos azules y policías reprimieron el lunes a personas que se encontraban defendiendo el Jardín Botánico de Asunción, Paraguay. Balines de goma, heridos y detenidos fue el desenlace en un país que arde en llamas.

Por Claudia Colmán*

25 de octubre, 2019.- Desde mediados del 2019, miles de hectáreas fueron consumidas por el fuego en Paraguay, Bolivia y Brasil, afectando la biodiversidad de nuestra región.

On the 2019 International Day of Rural Women, Landesa’s Shipra Deo explores how land rights are an essential element for overturning misperceptions about the role of women in society and on the farm.

In a workshop with a group of agronomists who work in agriculture extension in India, I ask the participants to draw the picture of a farmer with whom they work. All but one of them draw male figures.

Por: por Maristella Svampa

La ONU pide a los gobiernos un golpe de timón y más ambición ante los estragos del calentamiento, aunque los grandes países se alejan del Acuerdo de París

No quedan ni 10 años, ni 5 años. Quedan sólo 15 meses. Ese es el tiempo que dispone la comunidad internacional para ajustar y adecuar el Acuerdo de París a la emergencia climática. Fecha tope: diciembre del 2020. Lugar: Glasgow (Escocia). Es su última oportunidad para lograr un clima estable.

A conversation with Julie Maldonado, Associate Director at Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (LiKEN), and Co-Director of Rising Voices: Climate Resilience through Indigenous and Earth Sciences.

Our online discussion “Open Land Data in the Fight Against Corruption” is well underway with many interesting contributions so far. We are discussing whether Open Data can be a key tool to increase transparency, support innovation and increase civic engagement, in the fight against corruption. One of the key questions which reverberates throughout the open data debate in the land sector, however, is how much transparency is too much?

This blog has originally been published by CABI at https://blog.cabi.org/2015/09/25/new-report-reveals-the-true-cost-of-land-degradation/