2nd annual GAI conference in Abu Dhabi offers a comprehensive overview of agriculture investment opportunities, risks, and return profiles across all major global production regions.
Focuses on investment opportunities in various parts of Africa such as Zambia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Liberia, Mozambique and Cote D'Ivoire.
The four-day conference on Land Policy in Africa will be a policy and learning event. Its overall objective will be to deepen capacity for land policy in Africa through improved access to knowledge and information, in support of evidence-based land policymaking and implementation.
La Convergence globale des luttes pour la terre et l’eau organise la 3ème édition de la “Caravane Ouest Africaine - Droit à la terre, à l’eau, à l’agroécologie paysanne : une lutte commune !” du 28 octobre au 18 novembre 2021
Public talk by Attila Scozs and Dan Cismas (EcoRuralis, Romania)
TNI Seminar Room, de wittenstraat 25, Amsterdam, 17:00-19:00
Attila Szocs, who monitors large scale agricultural land purchases in Romania, and Dan Cismas, a biodynamic farmer and co-president of the EcoRuralis peasant association, tour European capitals and cities to highlight, debate and raise public awareness on the social, environmental and economic impact of large scale land acquisition by both, foreign and national companies.
Please register with Hilde van der Pas ([email protected])
Emission de Metropolis sur ARTE (FR/DE) - 30-6-2012 - 14:45
Workshop is part of the People’s Global Camp hosted by the Indonesian People’s Alliance in cooperation with global networks opposed to World Trade Organization and neo-liberal globalization
Event brings together ILC members and other stakeholders to advance understanding of the complex and dynamic political, economic, environmental and social linkages between land governance, food security, poverty and democracy.
The Mekong Region Land Governance (MRLG) project and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) welcome you to join us for our Second Regional Land Forum, to be held in Bangkok on 28-30 May.
What will be happening there?
We will launch the new Mekong region State of Land report prepared by our partners from the Centre for Development and Environment of the University of Bern, with support of RCSD, FAO, EFICAS, MRLG). The first of its kind, this report presents a comprehensive overview of land resources, distribution and governance conditions in the Mekong region, including Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Viet Nam. The 2018 State of Land will serve as a benchmark of current conditions, and set a baseline for future measuring and reporting of progress in land governance in the Mekong region.
What else?
Similar to the First Regional Land Forum, we are inviting land professionals and practitioners at both the local and global level to present the latest information and current progress on key topics addressing smallholder tenure security. These include:
– community access to land and forests, including mechanisms for better recognition of customary land rights;
– successful techniques for community empowerment and policy advocacy;
– putting a gender lens on land issues;
– new instruments and global finance measures towards responsible agricultural investment;
– land conflict resolution and mitigation strategies; and more.
Other events include a master class on Land Conflict Transformation and an academic sharing session.
We’ll also be inviting donor partners to outline their priorities and activities on land issues in the region, with the opportunity to “pitch” proposals to be taken up in country agendas or for potential funding.
With this event marking the end of MRLG Phase 1, we expect to share some of the novel solutions to difficult regional land governance problems that are emerging in the region. We are also excited to introduce Phase 2, and to continue working together to ensure that all smallholders both women and men have secured and equitable access to agricultural land and forest, particularly indigenous and ethnic minority communities.
We’d like to acknowledge our initial partners supporting the event organisation: the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), the University of Bern, the Research Centre for Social and Sustainable Development (RCSD), Deutsche Gesellscha& f?r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), and the Independent Mediation Group.
Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand, 9:30 am, Thursday, 2 February 2012
Leaders and Organizers of Community Organizations in Asia (LOCOA), an Asian regional network of urban poor slum dwellers and organizations that work to support them, together with People's Movement for a Just Society (P-Move), a Thai umbrella formation linking together organizations of the urban and rural poor who are adversely affected by Thai development policies, including Four Regions Slum Network, the Network of Communities for Social and Political Reform, the Northern Peasants Federation, the Assembly of the Poor-Pak Mun, and the Northeastern Land Reform Network, will hold a press conference at the FCCT to express its position on land grabbing and evictions, and explain its opposition to the World Bank's principles of "responsible agricultural investment." Directly after the press conference, LOCOA and P-Move will hold a public demonstration and attempt to submit a petition regarding the principles of "responsible agricultural investment" at the World Bank's Bangkok office.