As part of a scoping study titled Land Governance for Climate Resilience: A review and case studies from LAND-at-scale projects headed by Richard Sliuzas, Emeritus Professor, University of Twente, CTV explored the links between climate and land governance in the LAND-at-scale project “Scaling Community Legal Literacy, Land Rights Certification and Climate Resilience in Mozambique”. This case study focusses on experiences from the Búzi District, where Cyclone Idai (March 2019) showed the need for proactive interventions in the land sector aimed at preparing districts and local communities to face and plan for severe climatic phenomena and their impacts, but also the challenges at making this link explicit. 

La terre est une ressource limitée, et son accès est essentiel pour les moyens de subsistance des individus et des communautés. Pour que l'accès à la terre soit sûr et équitable pour tous, les Nations unies ont fixé l'objectif de développement durable (ODD) 1.4.2, qui mesure la sécurité tenure foncière des individus, et l'ODD 5.a.1, qui mesure la sécurité tenure sur les terres agricoles dans une perspective de genre.

Land is a finite resource, and access to it is essential for the livelihoods of individuals and communities. To ensure that access to land is secure and equitable for all, the United Nations has set the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1.4.2, which measures individuals' land tenure security, and SDG 5.a.1, which measures tenure security over agricultural land from a gender perspective.

La Fondation Land Portal, en tant qu'organisation à but non lucratif opérant à l'intersection des communautés des données ouvertes et de la gouvernance foncière, a eu le privilège, au cours des 5 à 8 dernières années, d'être en mesure d'observer certaines tendances intéressantes affectant le paysage des données de gouvernance foncière.

Co-organisé par la FAO, l'UNCCD, le TMG et le Land Portal, cet événement parallèle visait spécifiquement à discuter de la manière dont l'intégration de la VGGT dans les initiatives de neutralité de la dégradation des terres (LDN) peut relancer la dynamique pour améliorer la sécurité d'occupation et débloquer de multiples avantages sociaux, économiques et environnementaux. 

Par MINA BEYAN, PATRICK KIPALU ET KENDI BORONA

Submission Deadline: All manuscripts should be submitted for consideration by December 31, 2021.

The global environmental crisis is intertwined with the crisis of social and economic inequality. From coal plants to palm oil plantations, economic activities that threaten the planet are concentrated in communities with less power and wealth. “You can’t have climate change without sacrifice zones,” writes Hop Hopkins, “and you can’t have sacrifice zones without disposable people.”1

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.

Date: 26 septembre 2019

Source: Grain.org

Les grandes sociétés de l’agro-industrie et de l’alimentaire cherchent désespérément à donner l’impression qu’elles font partie de la solution à la crise climatique. Mais il est impossible de concilier ce qui est nécessaire pour soigner notre planète avec leur attachement irréductible à la croissance.

Date: 11 septembre 2019

Source: Mediaterre.org

Souvenons-nous : "L'Ile Maurice ne doit pas seulement être la vitrine des hôtels de luxe. La destination mauricienne ne se résume pas aux plages ...", clamait Joël de Rosnay, conseiller spécial des questions environnementales auprès du Premier Ministre mauricien lors de la campagne Maurice Ile Durable déployée en 2009.

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

Maritza Losada moved to Puerto Guadalupe five years ago when her husband found a job with a large biomass energy company that grows sugar cane. She and her husband purchased a lot in the town’s poorest neighborhood, Barrio Nuevo. The district remains today much like it was in 1995 when the government created the housing project for future agro-laborers: no roads, no sewage, no gutters.

This July is the first time the United Nations will review the progress made towards meeting Sustainable Development Goal 15, which is about Life on Land. Each goal will be reviewed about every 4 years until 2030.

The reviews will be based on the 10 indicators countries agreed on, that assess change in each country over time. Two important developments relating to the indicator on land degradation neutrality (15.3.1) have occurred, since its adoption in 2015.