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G20 Women’s Forum Accused of Excluding Indigenous Indonesians
Indonesian rights groups protest against dialogue for gender equality over alleged failure to address issues in North Sumatra.
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- Entrepreneurship
- Region
- South Asia
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Viewpoint: Western Nonprofits Are Trampling Over Africans’ Rights and Land
Extensive scholarship and reports show that protected areas, especially those imposed and stripped off all Indigenous peoples’ rights, fail to protect biodiversity in the global south.
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- Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: ‘Gargantuan Task’: Why India’s Renewable Push Will Be Hard
Plans to build a sprawling solar park on land cultivated for generations by indigenous farmers in India's Himalayan foothills erupted in violent clashes with police last year after their crops were bulldozed for the development.
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- Energy
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- Asia Pacific
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Land Conflicts on the Horizon as India Pursues a Clean Energy Future
Low tariffs achieved by renewable energy projects in India have fueled the clean energy sector; it may also be triggering land conflicts.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Asia Pacific
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Below the Tip of the Iceberg: Why Systems Change is the Key to Scaling Innovations and Solving Development Challenges
In recent years there has been an increased focus on systems change in the development sector, in response to growing awareness of how underlying systemic causes are perpetuating many global challenges. María Boa-Alvarado at CIMMYT, Lennart Woltering at One CGIAR and Marcos Sanjuán at CRS-El Salvador discuss the benefits of this approach, as applied to the issue of land degradation in Central America. They explore how their organizations are using a systems thinking tool, the iceberg model, to better understand the root causes of this problem – and to provide lasting solutions.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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What Corporations and Smallholder Farmers Have in Common: Addressing the Challenge of Land Rights in Emerging Markets
Lucia Maurício farms about 25 acres of land in Mozambique to feed her family. Portucel manages over 32,000 acres of eucalyptus farms nearby, to power its global supply chain. As Mary Hobbs at USAID points out, both require clear and documented land rights to achieve their goals. She explains why land rights are an essential part of reducing poverty among farmers and boosting investment for corporations in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Agriculture
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Viewpoint: Securing Property and Land Rights in India
Secure property rights are fundamental to the economic and social development of any country. However, in India, we are faced with a curious conundrum where more than 70 percent of a household’s assets are held in land and housing, yet there is insufficient data and research on people’s property rights.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Technology, WASH
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- Asia Pacific
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No, the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Not Saving the Environment
The International Energy Agency says the world will use 6% less energy this year, the largest reduction in 70 years. But that won’t make up for losses from practices such as deforestation and wildlife poaching, he writes.BY
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- Coronavirus, Energy, Environment
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