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Mujeres indígenas proponen sistema inclusivo para conservar bosques de Costa Rica

11 Agosto 2021

Por: Michelle Soto 


 


En el extremo sureste de Costa Rica se levanta una cordillera aún revestida de verde, cuyas costuras están tejidas por el agua. Talamanca es el hogar de los bribris y los cabécares, dos de los ocho pueblos indígenas de esta nación centroamericana.


Allí fue donde Sibú, el dios creador en la mitología talamanqueña, ordenó el mundo. En un principio, lo que reinaba era la oscuridad, y la superficie no era más que una roca. Los dioses y animales espirituales yacían debajo de ella.


“Es vital recuperar la palabra agricultura para no ir atrás del agronegocio”.

13 Julio 2021

 

Por:   Mariángeles Guerrero

Entrevista a Jeremías Chauque, referente de la organización campesina Desvío a la Raíz, de Santa Fe. ¿Qué sucede cuando el agronegocio se apropia de conceptos cómo "agroecología"? Reflexiona sobre la necesidad de retomar los orígenes de la agricultura campesina e indígena. La defensa del territorio y la vida rural, la salud de la tierra y las personas, alimentos sanos para todos y todas.

To secure equal rights to land, bring men and women together

13 Julio 2021
Elizabeth Daley

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.

Sharing land governance knowledge within the Dutch government through LAND-at-scale

06 Julio 2021
Maaike van den Berg

The main objective of the LAND-at-scale program is to directly strengthen essential land governance components for men, women and youth that have the potential to contribute to structural, just, sustainable and inclusive change at scale. An ambitious objective, that cannot be achieved in isolation. Alignment is, therefore, a key factor in all LAND-at-scale activities - be it at project level for our country interventions or through our collaborative approach to knowledge management.

Securing Land Rights for Female Farmers in India

27 Mayo 2021

By: Thais Bessa, gender advisor at Integrated Land and Resource Governance (ILRG). 


Purnima Kora is an ambitious farmer. She owns two small parcels of land that she purchased with her husband’s support and years of savings she earned from farming PepsiCo potatoes and rice, as well as by leveraging micro loans through a women’s self-help group. She also leases another half-acre plot to farm potatoes.  


Los campesinos del sur de Tolima exigen mayor participación en los PDET

10 Mayo 2021

 

Autor : Ángela María Agudelo Urrego

 

En Santiago Pérez, un corregimiento de Ataco, la gente aún no sabe dónde llorar a sus muertos, pues el cementerio es solo una ilusión. Eso cuenta Marco Gutiérrez, representante de la Mesa de Víctimas municipal. Tampoco hay buenas vías para ir de una vereda a otra, ni seguridad para que la plaza local pueda comercializar productos con el municipio y la región.

 

Beyond Ownership: Measuring Land Rights

03 Mayo 2021
Cheryl Doss
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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.

RVO and FAO Round Table on Land Consolidation in the Arab World: Experiences from Egypt, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia

30 Marzo 2021
Gemma Betsema
LisetteMeij

What are the state-of-the-art and new approaches to land consolidation as part of integrated rural development strategies in North Africa and Near East? That was the main question around which several experts from Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and Turkey joined the FAO/ RVO roundtable discussion on land consolidation during the Second Arab Land Conference last February; a session which 110 participants attended – both in person and online.