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Geographical focus
Our sugar is made from sugarcane. And sugarcane is not planted in trees or in the air, it’s planted in the ground, in the soil, on land. It’s the bedrock of our investment.
—Illovo Land Champion
La falta de gasolina está llevando al borde del colapso a la industria agrícola venezolana y amenaza con más hambre y malnutrición. Productores calculan que el área plantada con los principales cultivos del país, maíz y arroz, se reducirá un 50 por ciento este año.
Por: Nicanor Domínguez Faura
Foto © Luisenrrique Becerra
Las estadísticas son alarmantes. Para 2050, el mundo requerirá un crecimiento estimado de 60 por ciento en la producción agrícola para satisfacer la demanda de alimentos de una población de cerca de 9.000 millones de personas.
Darly Mendoza, integrante de la Plataforma de Incidencia Política de Mujeres Rurales Colombianas.
Myriam Martínez Cárdenas Directora General, Agencia Nacional de Tierras
Con la entrada en vigencia del Plan Nacional de Desarrollo “Pacto por Colombia, Pacto por la Equidad”, contenido en la Ley 1955 de 2019, la Agencia Nacional de Tierras asumió nuevos roles y se reafirma como una institución indispensable dentro del proceso de inventario y registro de tierras, para el ordenamiento social de la propiedad rural y en los pactos por el desarrollo integral del campo colombiano.
Por Anastasia Moloney
OVEJAS, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Obligada a huir de su hogar para escapar de la violencia durante la guerra civil de medio siglo en Colombia, la campesina Diana Vitola ha estado esperando décadas para recibir un documento formal que demuestre que es la dueña legítima de una pequeña parcela de tierra.
Earlier this year, in honor of International Open Data Day, which took place on March 2nd, we put out a call, asking Land Portal users and any and all interested to submit their very own data stories to the Land Portal. What we were looking for were stories that were unique and original, and that presented data in innovative and engaging ways. We realized that this was no easy feat, but each and every one of the submissions we received made inventive use of photos, quotes, maps and infographics to tell compelling stories. In the end, the be
June 3, 2019
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In early May 2019, it was reported that agricultural areas of central and northern Iraq were being set ablaze — allegedly by remaining pockets of fighters from the so-called Islamic State.
Introduction
The Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Amazon Biome map was produced by Imazon in order to contribute towards monitoring in the region. The methodology applied simultaneously generates mapping of deforestation and forest degradation [caused by logging activity and forest burning] using Landsat satellite images. Existing methods individually detect and map those processes, which can lead to overlaps in the results and increasing uncertainty in estimates of annual deforestation rates.
Trees have become an iconic image of environmentalism, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we should plant millions of them.