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.

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.

Date: 13 avril 2019

Source: Farmlandgrab, Collectif TANY

Résumé

Dans le cadre de la commémoration de l’anniversaire de l’insurrection des Malagasy contre le colonialisme français, du 29 mars 1947, le Collectif TANY se joint aux nombreux citoyens qui s’interrogent sur ce que nous avons fait de l’indépendance de notre pays, pour laquelle nos compatriotes avaient lutté et versé leur sang.

Date: 26 décembre 2018

Source: Farmlandgrab, TV5 Monde

À la veille de l'annonce des résultats provisoires de la présidentielle, un des sujets qui inquiètent la population est celui de l'accaparement des terres agricoles par les multinationales. Dix ans après l'affaire Daewoo Logistics, on fait le point avec Mamy Rakotondrainibe, présidente du Collectif pour la Défense des Terres Malgaches, Tany.

Much of the world’s rural landscapes are technically managed by national governments with limited recognition of, or support for, the rights and management responsibilities of the rural poor who live in these areas. In an era of large-scale land acquisitions for global commodity production, this has led, in some cases, to governments allocating vast tracts of land and resources to companies with limited or no consultation of the people affected.

For hundreds of years, pastoralists in Ethiopia’s lowlands have relied on strong customary land tenure systems to survive. Historically, legislation has failed to clearly define communal rights to rangelands, and the specific roles and responsibilities for both communities and local government to administer and manage these resources. This legislative deficiency prevented pastoral communities from fully exercising their constitutional rights to land (Ethiopia’s Constitution broadly recognizes pastoral communities’ right to access land and prevents their involuntary displacement).

Date: 3 octobre 2017

Source: SciDev.net

Par: Amzath Fassassi