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Authors: Jérémy Bourgoin, Natalia Espinosa Rincón, and Nikka Rivera

As over a thousand participants from around the world converged in Bogotá, Colombia, at this year’s Global Land Forum (GLF) in June, Land Matrix Initiative team members Jérémy Bourgoin, Natalia Espinosa Rincón, and Nikka Rivera joined them, coming together to …

Author: Josh Gabbatiss
Published: 12 March 2024
Source: Carbon Brief

Logging companies have “acquired” roughly 1m hectares of Indigenous peoples’ territory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo since 2000, according to a new study.

This is part of a wider trend in which companies and governments take advantage …

The Instituto de Investigaciones en Energía No Convencional (INENCO) is currently carrying out a radio broadcasting campaign to share its research activities from the Latin America Regional Focal Point (RFP). The campaign started in April 2023 and will run for three months until July. So far, INENCO has visited …

Aplicando el coeficiente de Gini para analizar las grandes transacciones de tierra realizadas desde el año 2000, esta investigación, del proyecto Grandes Transacciones de Tierras (GTT), a través de la Iniciativa Land Matrix, revela que el Chaco de Salta es una de las regiones más afectadas por el desmonte …

“Land Grabbing from the inside” -- Who is involved? What are the consequences? Why is it so difficult to fight?

Throughout the month of November, Land Matrix LAC, in collaboration with the ILC LAC, will be carrying out an exciting Outreach Campaign to explore the issue of land grabbing in …

En este último número del boletín del Punto Focal América Latina, contamos con actualizaciones sobre las actividades en la región, incluyendo:

• Nuevas grandes transacciones de tierras en América Latina

• Contribución para un libro de acaparamiento de tierras

• Taller para la identificación de grandes transacciones de tierras

• Foro: Intercambio de Conocimiento …

In this latest issue of the Latin America Focal Point newsletter, we feature updates on activities in the region, including:

• New large scale land acquisitions in Latin America
• Contribution to a book about land grabbing
• Workshop of the identification of LSLA
• Forum: Exchange of knowledge on Semi-arid regions of Latin …

In this latest issue of the Latin America Focal Point newsletter, we feature updates on activities in the region, including:

• New phase and strengthening of the regional partners network
  
• Start-up of the National Land Observatory of Argentina
  
• Strengthening the Focal Point in research issues
  
• Collaboration between the Focal Point Latin …

Focus: Nicaragua Grand Interoceanic Canal

The Latin America Focal Point of the Land Matrix, Fundapaz, published a newsletter on their latest activities. Here is a summary of the contents: 

• Focus: Nicaragua Grand Interoceanic Canal 
• Updating of existing deals in Latin America 
• New land deals of uploaded to the database 
• …