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Cabo Verde: ‘Unprecedented’ food insecurity triggers social and economic emergency
24 June 2022
The island nation of Cabo Verde is facing record levels of food insecurity due to drought, the COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine, affecting some 181,000 people, or 32 per cent of the country, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported on Thursday. Recent hard-won gains in food security…

In the Mekong Delta, sand mining means lost homes and fortunes
23 June 2022
Known as the rice basket of the country, the delta now sees houses tumbling into rivers and livelihoods lost When a riverbank subsided and gave way, Tran Van Bi’s house collapsed into a river in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta four years ago. Everything his family had accumulated over 32 years was gone in…

Cape Town informal settlements inundated by floods
14 June 2022
In photos: Cape of floods City residents battle cold and rain as a heavy storm hits Cape Town The Kuilsriver gushes along Covid informal settlement in Mfuleni, Cape Town, flooding the bordering houses. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks Cape Town has been hit a by a huge storm. Our journalists photographed…
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No Climate Transition Without Securing Land Rights
2 June 2022
The 15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP15) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), is taking place in Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire, from 9 to 20 May 2022. The theme: “Land, Life. Legacy: From scarcity to prosperity.” “We are faced with a crucial choice,” Deputy…

Post COP26 Reflections: A Focus on Opportunities for Customary Land Rights
19 May 2022
May 19th 2022 at 9:00AM-10:30AM EST (15:00 PM– 16:30 PM CEST) 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…