Este reportaje de Land Portal analiza el aumento de la producción de maíz en Tailandia y sus alrededores, y su relación con la cadena de valor avícola como ingrediente de los piensos.
Blog written by AYJAZ WANI for Observer Research Foundation
Originally posted at https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/kazakhstan-on-the-brink/
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WHY REJECT CUSTOMARY LAND PRIVATISATION
Most of the world’s land is still stewarded by communities under customary systems. Billions of people rely on communally managed farmland, pasture, forests and savannahs for their livelihoods.
This collective management of resources is viewed in the colonial or capitalist economic model as an obstacle to individual wealth creation and private profit.
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.
The debate about compensation of former white farmers in Zimbabwe continues to rage. The compensation agreement signed in July agreed a total amount of US$3.5 billion to pay for ‘improvements’ to the land that was expropriated. After 20 years of discussion, this was a major step forward. However, there seem to be multiple positions on the agreement and little consensus, along with much misunderstanding. However, some things are happening, and a joint resource mobilisation committee has been established with technical support from the World Bank and others.
Summaries and selected replays from the 3rd Mekong Regional Land Forum are available below. Full replays of the plenary sessions will be posted shortly -- check back soon!
Originally published at: https://apparelinsider.com/land-grabs-the-new-red-flag-for-uzbek-cotton-...
Written by Lynn Schweisfurth
Apparel brands are said to be eyeing Uzbekistan as a potential source of cotton, particularly with Xinjiang cotton now the subject of US sanctions. A process of reform has made significant progress on forced labour issues in Uzbekistan, but now another issue has arisen: land-grabs.
* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Malcolm Childress is co-director of Prindex and executive director of Global Land Alliance
Por Frédéric Mousseau
Un informe reciente del Instituto Oakland detalla las diversas formas en que los gobiernos, voluntariamente o por la presión de las instituciones financieras y los llamados países donantes, intentan privatizar la tierra y hacerla accesible para ser explotada.
Esas formas incluyen a las reformas agrarias, cambios en las leyes y reglamentaciones, uso de nueva tecnología para el registro de tierras, así como la eliminación de las salvaguardas vigentes que protegen a los pueblos indígenas y el medio ambiente.
Este mes, el presidente de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, propuso un nuevo proyecto de ley que promueve la minería, la agricultura ampliada y la producción de energía en tierras indígenas de la Amazonía. Por consiguiente, los promotores privados, así como los fondos de cobertura privados, ocuparán y desarrollarán las tierras que han sido el hogar de pueblos indígenas durante miles de años.
Mientras tanto, durante el primer año completo de Bolsonaro en el cargo, la deforestación aumentó en un 85%. Más información sobre este alucinante número a continuación.
Last week the World Cocoa Foundation, a membership organization of more than 100 cocoa companies, held its annual partnership meeting in Berlin, Germany. The aim of the meeting is for governments, cocoa companies and farmers to identify and tackle the sector’s largest sustainability challenges. A 90-minute session was devoted to the topic of land tenure. The prominence of the session, as well as the seniority of the presenters – the Head of Sustainable Sourcing for Hershey’s and the Deputy Director General of Cote d’Ivoire’s Land Agency among them – is a powerful signaling effect.
Una sentencia respalda la legalidad y legitimidad de las resoluciones de las autoridades de los resguardos a la hora de regular la explotación de sus recursos. Los embera chamí de Caldas han ganado una batalla que sienta jurisprudencia en el tema minero.
