Burundi has the world’s highest hunger score and around 45 percent of the population is affected by food insecurity. The country copes with increasing scarcity of land as a result of increasing population size, returnees and IDPs and climate change. With the majority of Burundians depending on agriculture for their food and livelihoods, land scarcity makes this reliance on agriculture precarious. This pressure on land causes elevated levels of land disputes with over 55% of all court cases being related to conflicts over land.

¿Cómo puede el sector financiero apoyar a las comunidades y los emprendimientos de América Latina y el Caribe en la gestión de sus tierras?

El reciente Foro Digital de Finanzas para la Naturaleza: Invertir en Futuros Equitativos reunió a cientos de participantes de 62 países para abordar esta pregunta apremiante.

Por :  Martha Irene Mamani

¿A dónde van a parar las tierras devastadas por la deforestación? En Bolivia no hay políticas de recuperación de tierras sobrexplotadas por el agronegocio soyero. Los agropecuarios del oriente prefieren desmontar más bosques para cambiar el uso de suelo en lugar de adoptar prácticas de conservación y recuperación de las tierras agotadas.

Por: Anna Begemann

Anna Begemann es investigadora del Programa de Gobernanza del Instituto Forestal Europeo (EFI).

Desde la deforestación –causada en gran medida por la expansión agrícola– en la Amazonía, hasta los devastadores incendios forestales en Canadá, Siberia y muchas otras partes del mundo, la destrucción de los bosques ha sido noticia en todo el mundo en los últimos años.

Por:  ROMÁN MEYER FALCÓN

By Allan Cain, Development Workshop Angola

* This article was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa

There is an underlying tension in the land rights movement that is rarely addressed head on, which is the perception that securing women’s land rights threatens community land rights. Community land rights are typically held by indigenous people, small-scale and subsistence farmers, pastoralists, herders and many other groups who are directly dependent on land for their livelihoods but whose land tenure is often the most precarious.

Advancing women’s land rights is a priority for the international development agenda. Yet, there is no consensus on which rights should be monitored and reported. Three indicators of women’s property rights are widely used in the literature. Each captures a different aspect of women’s land rights, but a recent paper explores the extent to which these different rights are held by the same person, using data from six African countries.

By David Matsinhe for the Daily Maverick. 

Originally posted at: https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-04-25-recipe-for-conflict-n...

The debate about compensation of former white farmers in Zimbabwe continues to rage. The compensation agreement signed in July agreed a total amount of US$3.5 billion to pay for ‘improvements’ to the land that was expropriated. After 20 years of discussion, this was a major step forward. However, there seem to be multiple positions on the agreement and little consensus, along with much misunderstanding. However, some things are happening, and a joint resource mobilisation committee has been established with technical support from the World Bank and others.

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/