En septembre 2022, la Sierra Leone a promulgué de nouvelles lois sans précédent relatives au foncier, au climat et au développement durable - la loi sur les droits fonciers coutumiers 2022 et la loi sur la Commission foncière nationale 2022. Le webinaire s'est concentré sur le Customary Land Rights Act 2022(Loi sur les droits fonciers coutumiers 2022), et son pouvoir de transformation pour aider les communautés à protéger leurs droits fonciers et à poursuivre le développement durable.
Le Land Portal utilise des histoires de données depuis 2019 comme un moyen de démontrer comment la combinaison de données avec des récits engageants, mémorables et persuasifs peut donner aux communautés les moyens de raconter leurs histoires au monde.
There is an immense pressure on land in Uganda. The country has a rapidly growing population and is host to the world’s third largest refugee population. Particularly poor people struggle to get access to healthy food. Agriculture practices need to become more efficient and focused on the domestic market. The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) in Uganda works to improve food security in selected areas in the country. Among several food security projects, the EKN works with the LAND-at-scale program to improve land governance.
By Ben Cousins, Emeritus Professor, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape
* This article originally appeared in the The Conversation on 22 June 2021
By Sean Johnson, land administration specialist at COWI, Swaziland
* This piece was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa
By Monica de Souza Louw, Land and Accountability Research Centre (LARC), University of Cape Town
* This piece was originally published as part of the online discussion on customary law in Southern Africa
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In Jharkhand, eastern India, women are not entitled to own land and accusations of witchcraft are wielded against them to silence their claims to land
When Talabitti’s husband died in 2016, her claim to the family land seemed to die with him. Though her husband had worked the family land by himself, upon his death his male cousins laid their claim. If Talabitti attempted to make a competing claim, they threatened to drive her away – with violence, if necessary. Sadly, this threat materialized.