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Forest Rights Offer Major Opportunity to Counter Climate Change
Salvadorans Elsy Álvarez and María Menjivar – with her young daughter – planning plantain seedlings in a clearing in the forest. Credit: Claudia Ávalos/IPSBy Carey L. BironWASHINGTON, Jul 24 2014...
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OPINION: Africans’ Land Rights at Risk as New Agricultural Trend Sweeps...
An irrigated field in Kakamas, South Africa. Due to weak land tenure found in many African countries, large land transfers place local communities at significant risk of dispossession or expropriation....
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New Fund to Build on “Unprecedented Convergence” Around Land Rights
Paraguayan Indians fight to enforce collective ownership of their land at the Inter-American Court. Credit: Milagros Salazar/IPSBy Carey L. BironWASHINGTON, Sep 18 2014 (IPS)Starting next year, a new...
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Opinion: Let’s Grant Women Land Rights and Power Our Future
Mary Wanjiru is a farmer from Nyeri County in central Kenya. Granting land rights to women can raise farm production by 20-30 per cent in developing countries. Credit: Miriam Gathigah/IPSBy Monique...
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Four Fast Facts to Debunk Myths About Rural Women
With adequate extension support, women farmers can increase productivity and food security in Africa. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPSBy Jacqui Ashby and Jennifer TwymanPARIS, Mar 23 2015 (IPS)We are lucky to...
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Global Guidelines on Land Tenure Making Headway in Latin America
A meeting to discuss the restoration of land in Colombia to rural victims of the half-century armed conflict – a situation that the voluntary guidelines on land tenure can help solve. Credit: Helda...
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