Esta semana se radicó ante la Registraduría Nacional del Estado Civil la solicitud para adelantar el Referendo Campesino, una iniciativa de organizaciones sociales para consultar al pueblo colombiano sobre el futuro de los habitantes rurales. ¿En qué consiste?.
Los nuevos análisis demuestran que la desigualdad de la tierra es mayor en un 41% frente a los datos basados en los censos.
Se destaca la necesidad de abordar la desigualdad en la cuestión de la tierra para combatir otras desigualdades como la económica, política, social, entre otras.
El trabajo analiza las grandes transacciones de tierras que se hicieron desde 2000 en una de las regiones más golpeadas por los desmontes y la conflictividad social con pobladores criollos e indígenas.
Un vocabulario controlado y una poderosa herramienta para que los datos y la información sean más fáciles de descubrir
Una herramienta fácil de usar para reunir y visualizar datos estadísticos y geoespaciales sobre cuestiones relacionadas a la tierra.
Land is an essential source of livelihood for a majority of Sierra Leoneans. Most of Sierra Leone’s population lives in rural areas and it’s GDP is largely based on agriculture. The three main livelihood activities surveyed in the 2015 population and housing census are crop farming, animal husbandry and fishery, which depend largely on access to and ownership of land. Smallholders mostly cultivate rice, cassava, cocoa, coffee, cashew, groundnut, palm oil, vegetables and other fruit trees.
Despite the achievement of Constitutional democracy in 1994, 'the land question' is at the heart of South Africa's struggles to overcome the cumulative legacies of nearly 350 years of white minority rule. The emotive quality of land policies evokes painful legacies fuelled by disappointments with the official land reform programme ushered in by the new Constitution of 1996. There is broad agreement that land reform programmes have not fulfilled their aims to significantly redistribute land and productive agrarian capacity, strengthen land tenure for the majority, and settle the restitution claims of victims of land dispossession.
Learn more about the successes and challenges in South Africa.
With the expansion of cities and urban infrastructure comes a growing need to better understand the relationship between people and land in urban and peri-urban areas.
Restoration is an urgent correction to the past and current global land degradation trends, to return forest cover, improve food security, and tackle climate change – among other goals. It has been estimated over 2 billion hectares of degraded land provide opportunities for forest and landscape restoration [1]. In September 2011, world leaders launched global Bonn Challenge – a voluntary global initiative that aimed to restore 150 million hectares of degraded land by 2020 [2].
The global Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) movement is gaining momentum. Thus, it is important to clarify what FLR is, the concepts, opportunities, challenges and its future implications.
Learn more about opportunities, challenges and approaches in forest and Landscape restoration...
Source: http://www.bonnchallenge.org/.
