5 de marzo de 2024 - En 2023, cuatro organizaciones vinculadas al sector de la tierra se unieron, con el apoyo de la Comisión Europea (CE), para reforzar el papel central de los datos a la hora de garantizar unos derechos sobre la tierra equitativos para el desarrollo sostenible, la erradicación de la pobreza, la paz y la protección de los derechos humanos. La Alianza de Datos sobre la Tierra (Land Data Partnership) de la CE, que incluye a la Coalición Internacional para el Acceso a la Tierra (que coordina la asociación), la Fundación Land Portal, la Iniciativa Land Matrix y Prindex, publicó su Declaración Conjunta de Intenciones en reconocimiento del Día Internacional de los Datos Abiertos.
Advancing women’s land rights is a priority for the international development agenda. Yet, there is no consensus on which rights should be monitored and reported. Three indicators of women’s property rights are widely used in the literature. Each captures a different aspect of women’s land rights, but a recent paper explores the extent to which these different rights are held by the same person, using data from six African countries.
Oil companies are paying billions towards development in the Niger Delta, but it’s having little impact on the ground, say Tijah Bolton-Akpan and Miles Litvinoff.
The land sector is increasingly being cited as a corruption hub. Many countries across the globe are grappling with land-related corruption that dates to the colonial years and which have metamorphosed into historical injustices and continue to be a source of conflict and violation of basic human rights. Cases of land grabbing, compensation-less expropriation, gender-based discrimination in accessing and ownership of land and related resources, illegal mining deals, bribing to access land administration services among others are not new in the lands sector.
NASA’s Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) has opened a new open, online webinar series: Large Scale Applications of Machine Learning using Remote Sensing for Building Agriculture Solutions. Remote sensing data is becoming crucial to solve some of the most important environmental problems, especially pertaining to agricultural applications and food security. Participants will become familiar with data format and quality considerations, tools, and techniques to process remote sensing imagery at large scale from publicly available satellite sources, using cloud tools such as AWS S3, Databricks, and Parquet. Additionally, participants will learn how to analyze and train machine learning models for classification using this large source of data to solve environmental problems with a focus on agriculture.
Having secure land tenure, ensuring people's confidence in accessing, controlling and utilizing their land, is crucial for promoting sustainable land management practices. It also plays a key role in building resilience against the impacts of climate change, including extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and increased desertification due to higher temperatures.
Acompáñenos en un seminario web que invita a la reflexión y que explora los retos y las direcciones futuras para ampliar la Administración de Tierras Adecuada a sus Fines (FFPLA - por sus siglas en inglés) basándose en experiencias sobre el terreno. Los enfoques de la FFPLA son ampliamente reconocidos y aplaudidos por ser más económicos, rápidos y flexibles (en términos de identificación espacial) que los métodos convencionales de administración de tierras.
