Brazil: Guarani & Kaiowá Face Forced Eviction
With no access to their legitimate territory, the members of the Guarani and Kaiowá Apyka`i community will be prevented from exercising their fundamental rights as indigenous peoples, including feeding themselves adequately. Despite intensive and coordinated international action,
Published : 12 June 2016
Right to the City @ the UN
Right to the City is widely supported in the open-ended informal Habitat III consultations at UN Headquarters Last week in New York, proponents advocated the adoption of the Right to the City in New Habitat Agenda
Published : 12 June 2016
“Luminous Fog” Makes Milky Way Disappear
It has inspired astronomers, artists, musicians and poets but the Milky Way could become a distant memory for much of humanity, according to a new global atlas of light pollution. The study found 60% of those
Published : 11 June 2016
CFS Recommendations on Connecting Smallholders to Markets
The Open Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Connecting Smallholders to Markets of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) convened from 8-9 June 2016, at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
Published : 09 June 2016
Kenya: Lamu’s Economy Pushes Low Income into Slums
Twenty years ago, land in Lamu was idle, forested and under-priced. Today, it is expensive, creating immense wealth. The archipelago is turning into a lucrative destination for everyone who wants to invest. The county is ranked
Published : 06 June 2016
Social Harm, Slums & Solution
Whether social harms are more common in city fringes or in their central parts was the subject of a recent debate, with experts calling for more government support to NGOs since they play an effective
Published : 05 June 2016
Food Experts: “Adopt Agroecology or Perish”
BRUSSLES/TRONDHEIM—Input-intensive crop monocultures and industrial-scale feedlots must be consigned to the past in order to put global food systems onto sustainable footing, according to the world’s foremost experts on food security, agro-ecosystems and nutrition. The solution
Published : 02 June 2016
Nigeria: Herdsmen, Land Use and Human Rights
Fulani herdsmen, herdsmen, hoodlums, intruders from Chad and neighbouring countries, or whatever appellation ascribed to their murderous activities, these names emit fumes of terror, anguish and fear. The fear they evoke is well founded. What
Published : 01 June 2016
Brazil: Goiás Land Struggle, Exercise in Citizenship
On the afternoon of 31May, one of the national leaders of the Landless Workers Movement (MST), operating in Goias, Jose Valdir Misnerovicz, was arrested in Rio Grande do Sul, in a joint operation of the
Published : 01 June 2016
