New Guide and Animation Film offers strategic guidance and inspiration on how to secure tenure rights to commons based on the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests Did you know that millions of…
What happens when you bring small-scale farmers, soil scientists, land rights and gender equality activists, academics, policy-makers and environmental stewards together in one space? Well, as the Global Soil Week has proven time and again, a beautiful exchange of knowledge…
9 August. Contributing to the UN International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples and the #LandRightsNow mobilization week, the IASS Global Soil Forum releases a short film with experiences from civil society, government and scientists on the implementation status of…
Securing Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ land rights is an urgent matter – especially in light of increasing resource demands and related conflicts. The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests (Tenure Guidelines) provide…
Millions of people worldwide depend on commons – the land, fisheries and forests which they use collectively as commons.
Statement of the Co-Chairs – Conference on Bioenergy and Development, Berlin 2015.
Authors Matheus Zanella and Jessica Duncan comment on the change direction at the recent UN Committee on Food Security (CFS) meeting. Has the organization once at the vanguard of inclusiveness lost its ambition?
View the short film for some take-aways from this year’s Global Soil Week.
This article by Jes Weigelt first appeared in GAIA 3/2015.
Secure land rights for all are a critical component of a transformational agenda, such as the member states of the United Nations wish to establish with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the end of September. Secure land tenure supports…