27 September. DG INTPA Info Point Virtual Conference. Secure Land Rights for Sustainable Food Systems. Secure land rights play a pivotal role in building sustainable food systems. Secure land tenure and/or secure control and...
Dear colleagues, I hope you’re keeping safe and well as can be at this time. I wanted to get in touch with details on our new report on Land & Environmental Defenders: Defending Tomorrow , which looks not only at the number of...
Hello, I want to found a World Cultural Association, E.R.M.A. (European Rural, World Associations), to create this blessed institution, the president serves as the secretary and a counselor. You want to be the founder, (a person...
“Millions of people around the globe depend on farmland, fisheries and forests for their livelihoods. But the increasing pressures on our precious natural resources carry multiple social, economic and environmental threats. In...
On 29 June 2017 DEVCO sponsored a one-day workshop in Brussels entitled “Responsible Land Governance in the Context of Domestic Investments into Land and Agriculture.” Experts on land and agriculture joined representatives of...
Published on 20 June 2016, this report from Global Witness considers that 2015 was the worst year on record for violence directed at land and environmental activists. It documents 185 killings across 16 countries, a 59% increase...
This ActionAid policy report, published in March 2015, considers that out-grower schemes (often referred to as contract farming) are an important component of many current public-private partnerships (PPPs) in developing countries...
Published by the Policy Department of DG External Policies in December 2014, this study discusses the human rights issues raised by large-scale land deals for plantation agriculture (‘land grabbing’) in low and middle-income...
Following the official launch in Washington on 8 Sep, the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development together with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) will host an online discussion for four weeks at...
