By Nadra Rahman 

The 2015 U.N. climate change conference was a historic moment in which the world agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Through the Paris Agreement, parties consented to a long-term pathway of climate-resilient development.

Commercial agriculture has driven land use changes and not only affected millions of hectares of forested land, but also farmers’ and local people’s land rights. Efforts to combat deforestation are at the forefront of the international aid agenda, and clarifying and securing land rights is important for its success.

First global benchmark for measuring and reporting land information aims to improve tenure security and enable fair compensation

The potential for conflicts related to large-scale land acquisitions could be cut down significantly if seven key pieces of information are included in every property transaction, land professionals say.

Kuluthum Mbwana remembers the day that biofuel investors arrived in her village Vilabwa, just 70 kilometers west of Tanzania's capital. In exchange for more than 8,000 hectares (19,800 acres) of land across 11 villages, including Vilabwa in Kisarawe District, she said they promised to bring much-needed jobs, schools and health clinics to her community.

The First Arab Land Conference took place in Dubai early last week, from the 26-28 February.  The first of its kind, it gathered land experts from across the region and beyond, in what was a fruitful and long overdue event in the region.  For those of us just returning from the three-day event, we know that there was no lack of key and empowering messages, as well as carefully thought-out and innovative ideas for the way forward.  If we take a moment, however, to get down to the fundamentals and to find one take-away, it would most likely be the following: each and every one of us has a rig

No es ninguna novedad que uno de los principales problemas históricos que tiene nuestro país sea la ocupación desordenada que hemos tenido sobre nuestro territorio. El Estado no ha podido hasta el momento diseñar una organización política y territorial clara que busque enfrentar la diversa problemática que se desprende como consecuencias de ese desorden.

por Cecilia Lanza Lobo

Nosotros, los habitantes de este país que alguna vez produjo más de 1.550 variedades de papa para el mundo y que ahora las importa del Perú. Este país que llamaba a Cochabamba su "granero” porque sus campos sembrados abastecían buena parte de los mercados del país con unos choclos enormes y sabrosos, tomates grandes, jugosos, cebolla por montones, verduras y hortalizas, duraznos de San Benito como pelotas de tenis, ciruelos y damascos, pacayes, piñas gordas y dulces desde el Chapare.

Escrito por Alfredo Méndez Bahena