How will you feel when you are discriminated against and denied privileges that other people enjoy? What will be your reaction? Have you asked yourself why indigenous peoples around the world feel they are denied their rights and left behind in development agenda? To answer all this, I had to look at the food security and tenure rights for indigenous women / communities in Africa thirteen years since the establishment of the International Rural Women’s Day
Source: Lecho.be
Par: Esmeralada de Belgique, activiste de l'environnement
Les peuples indigènes du Brésil voient leur environnement disparaître sous leurs yeux. En important des ressources issues du déboisement de terres protégées, la Belgique s'en rend complice.
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.
This is the second interview in our Climate Crisis, Global Land Use, and Human Rights Interview Series. See the first here.
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).
