International Land Coalition

👉 Working on #climate, #biodiversity, or sustainable #food systems? Passionate about climate and environmental justice? ⬇️ Want to be in room with #changemakers -- where a group of people are working towards uniting those three key issues? We hope you'll join us, and the Global Land Alliance at a crucial Committee on World Food Security (CFS) side event -- either virtually or in person! 📅 22 October ⏰ 8:30 CEST 🎫 Registration: https://bit.ly/4dTTzHQ 🌎 What we'll learn 🌍 The event will focus on the critical intersections of climate change, biodiversity #conservation, land degradation neutrality, and the need for land tenure security in the transition to sustainable and resilient agrifood systems by promoting interlinkages and integrated approaches, fostering knowledge exchange, mobilizing political commitment and #accountability, and facilitating the science-policy interface. 🗣️ Who you'll hear from 🗣️ ➡️ Esther Dweck, Minister of Management and Innovation of Public Services, Brazil ➡️ Frederick Charles Dubee (fred dubee), Senior Director of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation ➡️ Madeleine Kaufmann, Senior Policy Advisor, Federal Office for Agriculture and Co-Chair of the Agroecology Coalition, Switzerland ➡️ Grace Mbong, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Cameroon ➡️ Kaveh Zahedi, Director, Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment, FAO --- #landrights #socialjustice #systemschange #ngo #civilsociety #sustainability #CFS2024 #CFS52 #foodsystems

🌍 Want to meet up? Join us for 10 days of #LandRights action at CBD COP16! 🌱 📆 Starting this Sunday (10/20), we’ll be in Cali, and you won’t want to miss our lineup of events focused on people-centered land governance, biodiversity, and climate justice. Check out the full schedule here: https://bit.ly/4gXnZeW 🚩 Plus, we’ve got a booth in the exhibition space outside Amazonia in the Blue Zone. Drop by and connect with us! We’ll be sharing our daily booth schedule on social media—follow us for updates: https://bit.ly/3XO70op 💬 Let us know in the comments where you’ll be and what you’re looking forward to at COP16! We’d love to meet up and discuss how we can advance land rights for #biodiversity together. 💪 -- #COP16 #CBD #Biodiversity #SustainableFuture #ClimateAction #LandGovernance #BlueZone #JoinUs

🌾 In honour of Rural Women's Day, we invite you to renew your commitment to women's #LandRights in 3️⃣ simple steps. Are you with us? ⬇️ 1️⃣ REVIEW YOUR COMMITMENT Next year, we’ll celebrate Beijing+30, an unmissable opportunity to re-familiarize yourself with the commitments and galvanize action on women’s rights. 💪 In 1995, the World Conference on Women was a turning point that established the most comprehensive global policy framework on women's rights—a huge milestone for the movement. 📅 25 years later, ILC members and partners reaffirmed the centrality of land rights to women's rights, meeting the needs of millions of women around the world. 2️⃣ SHARE IT WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES AND PARTNERS! Different actors committed to different things. 📢 Do your part and help remind them of what they promised to implement—including yourselves! 3️⃣ BE PART OF THE CHANGE 🚀 Great progress has been made since Beijing, but there’s still work to be done to make women’s land rights a reality. Get ready for Beijing+30 by downloading this go-to guide! 📖 It's attached to this post! 🔗 ----- #RuralWomensDay #Beijing30 #WomensRights #GenderEquality #EmpowerWomen #SustainableFuture #BeTheChange #LandJustice #WomenInLeadership

🌱 We're going to be @ COP16, will you? 👇 📆 Our schedule of events 📆 : https://bit.ly/4gXnZeW The most thriving places on earth belong to #IndigenousPeoples and local communities (including pastoralists, smallholders and family farmers, and peasants). It’s no coincidence that their knowledge is saving #ecosystems from destruction and their practices are restoring forests, lands, and plains. In fact, 42% of global land in good ecological condition is managed by Indigenous Peoples and local communities! 🌎 That's why we have a mission this #CBDCOP16 🌍 This COP16, it is paramount that the roles Indigenous Peoples and local communities (including pastoralists, smallholders and family farmers, peasants), as well as women and youth, play in protecting and restoring hashtag #biodiversity are recognised. You can find out more about our specific asks on on our website (https://bit.ly/4gXnZeW), but in the meantime, here are 6 places you can meet us to talk about land rights and nature between the 21st and 31st of October! ⬇️ Let us know where you're going to be in the comments! --- #NGO #CBDCOP16 #BiodiversityCOP #Civilsociety #CSO #activism #advocacy #landrights #humanrights #socialjustice #climatejustice

⁉ 🗺 How are you leveraging data as a #climatesolution? 👉 Let us know in the comments! 📢 This week, we're heading to #ClimateWeekNYC, ready to roll up our sleeves and dive into real, time-tested solutions. In celebration, we’ll be spotlighting real-world stories of climate solutions from our network of nearly 300 members spanning 84 countries, and representing over 70 million land users—from smallholder farmers to forest dwellers. 🌍 One of those is LandMark, a platform we're helping to re-launch at #climateweek. 💡 Led by a steering group of Indigenous Peoples, local communities and their allies, LandMark shows how Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ lands intersect with #biodiversity areas, forest cover, gain and loss, and #carbonstorage. The platform now covers 30% of the world’s Indigenous Peoples’ & local communities’ land maps with a stronger focus on #biodiversity and land use change; new data on #climatechange #mitigation & carbon fluxes; and tools for #landrights advocacy. 🗺 ➡ Flip through its main upgrades below, and test it out yourself here: https://lnkd.in/dbuJSatf ---- #IndigenousLand #LandMarkMapping #SustainableLandUse #LandGovernance #NatureBasedSolutions #dataforgood #dataforadvocacy #ngo #civilsociety #climatejustice

🚿 Why did the fossil fuel company bring soap to New York Climate Week? ⬇ To greenwash its reputation! 😂 Caught your attention? Good. Because we didn't come to New York Climate Week with soap, we came with REAL #climatesolutions. If you're in NYC, join us, and World Resources Institute *TODAY* as we discuss one of them at The Nature Hub: **The LandMark Mapping Platform: New Data and Tools for Securing Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ Land Rights** 📆 24 September 🕤 15:00 - 16:00 EST 📍 Convene 101 Park Ave, Midtown NY (The Nature Hub) ℹ Event info: https://bit.ly/3MW9Och 🎫 Register: https://bit.ly/3XTfkT7 📺 What is LandMark? Watch the video attached to the post! ... But first... **WHY IS LANDMARK A CLIMATE SOLUTION?** 🕊 LandMark maps Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ lands for stronger #landrights and #sustainablefutures providing near-real-time data that tracks deforestation and land degradation.  And we know that #LandRights 🌱 for the communities who live on and from the land is one of the most powerful solutions to the climate crisis. That's because sustainable and equitable land governance increases the resilience and well-being of communities and ecosystems, respecting their rights and elevating their crucial role as protectors of nature. 🌍 At this event you'll hear from 🌎 : 🗣 Gam Awungshi Shimray, Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) Program Moderator 🗣 Wanjira Mathai, WRI Managing Director, Africa and Global Partnerships  Bezos Earth Fund 🗣Hugo Jabini, Saamaka land rights defender 🗣David Garcia, International Land Coalition & LandMark Coordinator 🌿 What we'll learn 🌿: The session will offer perspectives from Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and their representatives on the importance of land rights and how the maps and data from LandMark have supported their advocacy efforts, by documenting the vital ecosystem services that they provide and pressures they face from extractive industries. Learn how new advancements in geospatial data integrated with maps of Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ lands can support biodiversity conservation monitoring, climate change mitigation strategies, due diligence opportunities for companies, and other applications at the intersection of nature preservation and land rights #advocacy. 👉 Interested in learning more? Stick with us throughout the day as we'll bring you more info about LandMark and how we're using #dataforchange 💚. ---- #IndigenousLand #NatureBasedSolutions #LandJustice #NYClimateWeek #ClimateActionNow #ClimateJustice #ProtectThePlanet #CommunityDrivenSolutions #GeospatialData

🌍 Tired of hearing FALSE climate solutions that make you feel like a wet cat caught in a thunderstorm? 🙀 Yep, us too. Share your favourite false solutions and, even better, drop the REAL ones in the comments! 👇 🚨If you've gotten this far, you -- like us -- are probably committed to solving the climate crisis. Fair assumption? 🚨 📢 This week, we're heading to #ClimateWeekNYC, ready to roll up our sleeves and dive into real, time-tested solutions. In celebration, we’ll be spotlighting real-world stories of climate solutions from our network of nearly 300 members spanning 84 countries, and representing over 70 million land users—from smallholder farmers to forest dwellers. 🌍 No need to book a trip to NY 🗽. We'll be sharing them with you right here on LinkedIn. All these stories have at least 1️⃣ thing in common. 👉 Can you guess? Okay, we'll lay it out for you. ⬇ Right now, too much land is controlled, managed and used by too few in ways which are unsustainable for the vast majority of people and the planet while flashy false solutions for a greener future are threatening the rights of those who live on and from the land. 📉 How much is too much land? 70% of the world’s agricultural land is controlled by just 1% of landowning corporations and individuals. These are often the same private interests pushing false, top-down climate solutions. 🤯 (For more information check out our report, "Uneven Ground": https://bit.ly/3XSccXG) 🌿 This post isn't about doom and gloom, however. It's about hope! 🌿 We know that #LandRights 🌱 for the communities who live on and from the land is one of the most powerful solutions to the climate crisis. That's because sustainable and equitable land governance increases the resilience and well-being of communities and ecosystems, respecting their rights and elevating their crucial role as protectors of nature. Raise your hand, if you like us, stand with the true guardians of our planet: 🚺 Women 👩🌾 Peasant and smallholder farmers, 🌾 Indigenous Peoples 🐄 Pastoralists 🌲 Forest dwellers 🏹 Hunter-gatherers 🌍 Afro-descendants & 🐟 Fisherfolk 💡 Want to see how land rights can be the key to climate solutions? Check out the document attached! 📄 Interested in learning more? 🔗 Contact our Head of External Relationships and Visibility, Sabine Pallas. --- #ActOnClimate #Sustainability #ClimateJustice #LandRights #advocacy #RealClimateSolutions #ProtectOurPlanet #GreenNotGreed #IndigenousRights #ClimateWeekNYC #FutureOfLand #DonorsForClimate

How can you be an effective ally to Indigenous women? ⬇ 🌽 👩🌾 As custodians of Indigenous knowledge and guardians of ancestral lands and territories, Indigenous women are the link to the past and future. That future is in danger of being destroyed through the erasure of their ways of living and removal of all evidence of their existence. So, what can we do?! 👭We recently hosted a conversation called, "Indigenous Sisters: Remembering Together to Resist Together" at the #APFF4 organized by APWLD in Chiang Mai, Thailand which highlighted the importance of #indigenouswomen's memory work. These were our big takeaways:  🗺 Ultimately recognition of Indigenous women's contributions in land governance, management & restoration leads to #foodsecurity and #climatesolutions like sustainable use of natural resources. It is vital, therefore, that Indigenous women are recognized as living memorials and bearers of generational wisdom whose land rights must be protected if we are to ensure the future of the planet. Here are 5️⃣ ways you can ally with Indigenous women: 1️⃣ Help them get legal recognition of land rights. 2️⃣ Collaborate on documenting intergenerational Indigenous wisdom. 3️⃣ Help build legal & media literacy. 4️⃣ Build offline and online libraries of Indigenous knowledge & practices. 5️⃣ Enable meaningful participation in policy and #advocacy spaces & advocate collectively. 👉 Did we miss something? Comment below to start the conversation! --- #indigenouswomen #genderequality #civilsociety #howto #cso #grassroots #indigenousrights #environmentaljustice #climatejustice #sustainability #bottomup #climatesolutions

🤔 Who are the perpetrators and beneficiaries of intersecting systems of oppression? At the recently held #AsiaPacificFeministForum hosted by APWLD in Chiang Mai, Thailand, we opened our session titled, "Decolonizing Emerging Technology: An Intersectional #Feminist Approach to Resisting Technology Facilitated Oppression" by asking the participants: *Is technology neutral?*   No. 🔎 Big Tech companies own big data. Big Media enables harmful patriarchal stereotypes & dominant narratives. The State often funds disinformation campaigns (particularly during elections) targeting critical voices and identities. 🚺 On the other hand, women #landrights defenders and environmental #activists are on the frontlines defending lands and territories from corporate capture. They are often caught in the crosshairs of dominant narratives spread by big tech, big media, and the state. ⚒ Online violence through doxxing aimed particularly at women enables offline violence. This ultimately leads to the self-censorship of critical voices online. 👉 What is needed to fight **Technology Facilitated Gender-Based Violence ( TFGBV)**? 1. More platform accountability 2. Adequate survivor-centric legislation 3. More support from the government in terms of preventive and remedial measures for TFGBV 4. Public education and awareness against TFGBV such as sextortion is required 5. Survivor-centric public policy and more policies to address TFGBV Anything you'd add? Drop a comment and join the conversation! --- #techforchange #fairtech #feministtech #ngo #civilsociety #defendthedefenders #humanrights #grassroots #womensrights #genderequality #climatejustice

👉 Come meet us today, virtually, from the Global Landscapes Forum (#GLF2024) in Nairobi! Together with Stand for Her Land, we'll be discussing women's #landrights as a pathway towards effective #climateactions! 📅 17 September 2024 ⏰ 17:00 - 17:45 Nairobi Time (GMT +1) 🎟 Register/ join us: https://bit.ly/3XqZXQt 🌎 Some questions we'll start to answer 🌎 : ⁉ What is the significance of securing women’s land rights in reducing the negative effects of #climatechange and contributing to food sovereignty ? ⁉ How can a people-centred approach be embraced to ensure women’s land ownership contributes to climate and #foodresilience? ⁉ How does #landtenure affect the opportunities for women in building climate adaptation and resilience in Africa? ⁉ In which ways can we enhance control and ownership of land by women in the midst of climate crises and #landdegradation? ⁉ What are some experiences and #lessonslearnt that have shown securing women's land rights is key to dealing with the climate crises? 🌎 We'll hear from 🌎 : 🗣 Mary Nkutawala Maneno, Advocacy & Campaigns Manager, International Land Coalition, (Our moderator) 🗣Maxensia Nakibuuka, Executive Director, Lungujja Community Health Organization 🗣 Deborah Oyugi, English Countries Manager and Safeguarding Lead, Youth Initiative for Land in Africa, Youth Initiative for Land in Africa (YILAA) See you soon! --- #NGO #civilsociety #womensrights #genderequality #climatecrisis #humanrights #CSO #globalaction #sustainableagriculture