WEBINAR: Secure Land Rights for Sustainable Food Systems

27 September. DG INTPA Info Point Virtual Conference. Secure Land Rights for Sustainable Food Systems.

Secure land rights play a pivotal role in building sustainable food systems. Secure land tenure and/or secure control and ownership of land grants freedom for these communities to decide on crops to cultivate, produce seeds and grow food based on local demands. This caters to local nutritional needs and relies on traditional agricultural practices or agroecology contributing to mitigate climate change and soil degradation. Having secure land rights is also a safeguard against forced evictions countering takeover of land by large agribusiness. Secure tenure for Indigenous Peoples and local communities, who protect 50% of the earth’s surface but have have formally recognised ownership over just 10% - leaving much of the world’s land surface subject to a massive tenure crisis and vulnerable to land grabbing by more powerful actors to create large plantations or fossil-fuel projects, hydroelectric dams, tourism, speculation or conservation. 

Given the significant role that land rights play in food systems, this session aims at mobilising support to ensure that the secure land rights of women, men, Indigenous Peoples, pastoralists and local communities are a key topic of discussion in the UN Food Systems Summit. 

• Etienne Coyette - Policy Officer, INTPA F3-Sustainable Agri-Food systems and Fisheries
• Mike Taylor - Director of International Land Coalition
• Giovanna Vásquez Luque - Directora de Promoción de la Mujer Productora del Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario y Riego del Perú – MIDAGRI
• Myline Macabuhay - Coordinator for Land Rights & Young Farmers' Agenda, , Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)
• Mamadou Mballo - Project Officer Land governance, CICODEV
• Rukshana Nanayakkara - Global Policy and Advocacy Expert, International Land Coalition

 Recording forth coming on DG INTPA Info Point