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Displaying 131 - 140 of 406La serie de Diálogos sobre la Tierra 2022
En 2022 seguimos en medio de una pandemia única en el siglo, de fenómenos
meteorológicos cada vez más violentos relacionados con el cambio climático y de
tensiones de seguridad a nivel mundial debido a guerras y conflictos. Los pueblos
indígenas y las comunidades locales (PICL) se encuentran entre los más vulnerables y
Post COP26 Reflections: A Focus on Opportunities for Customary Land Rights
2021 was a year of big promises concerning tenure rights. At COP26, an unprecedented 1.7 billion dollar pledge was made in support of ancestral community land rights, aiming to place IPLCs rights central to global policy-making and discourse. The questions remain; when and how funding will reach communities and how it will be used effectively.
Land Dialogues Webinar Series 2022
In 2022 we remain in the midst of a once-in-a-century pandemic, increasingly violent weather events connected to the changing climate, and global security tensions due to war and conflict. Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) are among the most vulnerable and are both directly and indirectly hard-hit by these events.
Land Governance Data: 1st Stakeholder Meeting Dakar, Senegal
Piloting the Open Up Guide for Land Governance in Senegal
The stakeholder workshop, which will take place with select stakeholders in Dakar, will introduce the first phase of the "Open Up Guide for Land Governance" project in Senegal; identify networks and stakeholders in the open land data sector; and increase awareness regarding open data in the land sector.
Land rights can break the gender bias in climate action for the good of the planet
International Women’s Day today challenges us to ‘break the bias’. This is key when it comes to the climate crisis as women are more vulnerable to climate shocks, yet less able to build resilience due to the cultural and legal biases that frustrate their agency over land and resources. Subjective data offers us ways to spot these biases and target ways of breaking them.
Episode 2- Where do we land up on gender equality?
This episode of LandUP! addresses an often overlooked topic by discussing the land rights of widowed women. Widowed women face vastly different hurdles and challenges when it comes to accessing land and this moment of their lives is worth exploring. With this in mind, we spoke to human rights lawyer Faith Alubbe, land economist Nana Ama Yirrah and Mokoro Principal Consultant and Land Portal Board Member Dr. Elizabeth Daley about widowhood and how women's land rights are often tied to a man's, with a specific focus on Africa.
Getting a Clearer Picture: Civil Society Reports on Progress Towards SDG Target 1.4 in Seven Asian Countries, 2020
Target 1.4 of the UN Sustainable Development
This target’s inclusion under SDG Goal 1, on “ending poverty in all its forms,” signifies a new global recognition that secure land tenure should be a central strategy in combating poverty. However, this land agenda has not been prominent in recent SDG reporting processes of governments.
Tenure and Governance Research: Build on Accomplishments Under PIM to Meet SDGs
Secure tenure and effective governance are central to the future of natural resources and agriculture. Although important on their own, tenure and governance are also embedded in the solutions to key global challenges: climate change; environmental management; poverty; gender equity and women’s empowerment; and nutrition and health.
New film highlights women’s role in protecting the world’s rangelands and pastoral communities
Rangelands cover 54 per cent of the earth’s terrestrial surface and provide valuable ecosystem services such as water retention and carbon sequestration. They also support the livelihoods of millions of pastoralists who turn rangeland resources into food and livestock products. However, in the face of unsupportive policy and legislation, blocked mobility routes and climate impacts, many of the world’s rangelands have become degraded.
To Mark International Open Data Day 2022 the Land Portal Announces New Call for Data Stories
One of our main goals and missions at the Land Portal is to help democratize the information landscape on land. Our annual Data Stories Contest aims to do just this, by allowing all those using land data to be able to tell their stories in a compelling way.