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The briefing identifies three main categories of constraints impacting gender equality within agrifood systems: structural barriers, land tenure, and resource access. Through case studies from Guatemala, Indonesia, and Kenya, it explores initiatives aimed at addressing these issues. The insights gleaned from these studies offer valuable lessons to understand what has worked to drive changes in behavior and practice.

Key messages

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About GLF Nairobi 2023: ‘A new Vision for Earth’

The GLF Nairobi 2023 Hybrid Conference, held on October 11 and 12, convened global thought leaders to set the stage for COP28, the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference. This pivotal event mobilised action on critical issues affecting humanity, biodiversity, and our planet.

The conference featured two focused days: Day 1 centered on “Africa’s Sovereign Solutions,” exploring pathways to a sustainable and prosperous future for the continent. Day 2, dedicated to climate, aimed to craft a “Survival Guide for a Planet in Crisis,” paving the way for a fairer world ahead of COP28.

GLF Nairobi brought together a diverse coalition of influential voices, ranging from scientists, activists, and Indigenous leaders to financiers, women, youth, policymakers, and private sector representatives. As a united front, we collectively championed change and passionately advocated for meaningful action in these pivotal times.

About this session

The side event, co-organized with the Stand 4 Her Land Campaign, GROOTS Kenya, and ILC Africa, brought grassroots women, government and CSO representatives, as well as international development agencies together to: 1) highlight the nexus between land restoration, secure women land rights, and addressing the climate crises; 2) share knowledge and successful practices by women restoring land in highland and rangeland ecosystems; 3) create opportunities for networking and alliance building to advance land restoration goals.

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About GLF Nairobi 2023: ‘A new Vision for Earth’

The GLF Nairobi 2023 Hybrid Conference, held on October 11 and 12, convened global thought leaders to set the stage for COP28, the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference. This pivotal event mobilised action on critical issues affecting humanity, biodiversity, and our planet.

The conference featured two focused days: Day 1 centered on “Africa’s Sovereign Solutions,” exploring pathways to a sustainable and prosperous future for the continent. Day 2, dedicated to climate, aimed to craft a “Survival Guide for a Planet in Crisis,” paving the way for a fairer world ahead of COP28.

GLF Nairobi brought together a diverse coalition of influential voices, ranging from scientists, activists, and Indigenous leaders to financiers, women, youth, policymakers, and private sector representatives. As a united front, we collectively championed change and passionately advocated for meaningful action in these pivotal times.

About this session

Well managed carbon markets can provide opportunities for nature, communities and the economy. However, the introduction and implementation of carbon credit schemes also comes with serious risks: people with insecure tenure rights risk being excluded from benefit sharing and decision making and could even being forced off their land.

This session discussed the risks of carbon markets to local communities without tenure rights, as well as ways to address them and allow community members to become active stakeholders in carbon markets and reap the benefits.

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Safeguards for Carbon Markets – Prioritizing Local Communities’ Tenure Rights

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About GLF Nairobi 2023: ‘A new Vision for Earth’

The GLF Nairobi 2023 Hybrid Conference, held on October 11 and 12, convened global thought leaders to set the stage for COP28, the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference. This pivotal event mobilised action on critical issues affecting humanity, biodiversity, and our planet.

The conference featured two focused days: Day 1 centered on “Africa’s Sovereign Solutions,” exploring pathways to a sustainable and prosperous future for the continent. Day 2, dedicated to climate, aimed to craft a “Survival Guide for a Planet in Crisis,” paving the way for a fairer world ahead of COP28.

GLF Nairobi brought together a diverse coalition of influential voices, ranging from scientists, activists, and Indigenous leaders to financiers, women, youth, policymakers, and private sector representatives. As a united front, we collectively championed change and passionately advocated for meaningful action in these pivotal times.

About this session

Sub-Saharan Africa is disproportionately affected by desertification, land degradation, and drought. The continent’s drylands urgently need to be restored to help communities adapt to the climate crisis and build resilient and sustainable food systems.

Small-scale farmers, women, youth and Indigenous Peoples are the most vulnerable to the impacts of unsustainable land use practices. However, they can play a crucial role in restoring if granted secure land tenure rights.

This session highlights the importance of tenure security to restoring landscapes, protecting biodiversity, and shielding livelihoods from the effects of the climate crisis.

Resources

• Video: Indigenous Peoples are ECOSYSTEM HEROES!
• Video: Pastoralists are ECOSYSTEM HEROES
• Video: Local Communities are ECOSYSTEM HEROES

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About the 6th Investment Case Symposium

Hosted in Luxembourg and online, GLF–Luxembourg Finance for Nature 2023: What comes next? united 4,500 participants from 160 countries, 106 speakers, and 100 global and local partner organizations, and reached 10 million people on social media, with more than 230 thousand engagements, around how finance can solve – rather than exacerbate – the climate and biodiversity crises.

Across 37 plenaries, expert sessions, special announcements, networking sessions, dialogues, onsite presentations, and inspirational talks, the event sparked vibrant conversations on the state of sustainable finance in 2023, including the latest innovations, success stories, investable projects, and much more.

What does sustainable finance have to do with Indigenous rights?

Meet Galina Angarova, executive director of Cultural Survival who explains the direct link between sustainable finance and Indigenous rights. Galina elaborates on the intrinsic relationship Indigenous Peoples have with biodiversity. 

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About GLF Africa 2022

GLF Africa 2022: How to build an equitable, resilient food future brought together over 8,500 participants from 122 countries and featured 182 leading scientists, activists, Indigenous leaders, financiers, youth and government leaders, and 68 incredible partners to explore African solutions to the global food crisis caused by climate change, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. 

Across 31 plenaries, interactive sessions, launches, virtual tours, dialogues, performances, and a job fair, the digital conference explored ways to transform the future of food through healthy landscapes, equitable access to land, and shorter, greener value chains. Messages spread on social media rallied 26 million people around concrete ways for Africa to regain its food sovereignty.

The African solutions that are driving sustainable agri-food systems transformation

This session addresses the potential and challenges of inclusive land governance as a lever to enhance local resilience and maintain a healthy and productive environment. Practical examples from African countries are presented and discussed to inspire action for sustainable landscapes that “leave no one behind.” Different marginalized population groups like women, refugees, pastoralists, and IPLC are at the center of the discussion:

• Wilfred Babanga, Program Manager for ZOA Uganda in West Nile, showcases the tenancy agreement as a successful land tenure security tool that aims to strengthen the land tenure security of war refugees living in Uganda, he calls to public administrators to replicate it and adapt it to the social and institutional context of other African states.
• Martin Hoppe, Head of the Division of Food and Nutrition Security, Global Food Policy, Fisheries at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), believes that the key to sustainable land management is the involvement of all stakeholders including governments, NGOs, and the local community. “Land security is very important in the fight against poverty and hunger.”
• Bala Wenceslas from the Impact Research Institute (IRI) points out the need for the establishment of a framework for dialogue between herders and farmers, and marginalized groups for the sustainable and equitable management of land resources.

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About GLF Africa 2022

GLF Africa 2022: How to build an equitable, resilient food future brought together over 8,500 participants from 122 countries and featured 182 leading scientists, activists, Indigenous leaders, financiers, youth and government leaders, and 68 incredible partners to explore African solutions to the global food crisis caused by climate change, COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. 

Across 31 plenaries, interactive sessions, launches, virtual tours, dialogues, performances, and a job fair, the digital conference explored ways to transform the future of food through healthy landscapes, equitable access to land, and shorter, greener value chains. Messages spread on social media rallied 26 million people around concrete ways for Africa to regain its food sovereignty.

Ensuring equitable land access for everyone

This session brings together researchers, environmental activists, and local actors from the ground to discuss how inequitable land tenure arrangements affect the daily lives of local people and how different communities have approached the issue. They also provide examples of existing collaborations that ensure landscape rights for everyone: 

• Diane Ndarbawa, a young activist from north Cameroon who works in the promotion of access to land for girls and women, states that ensuring equitable land access, use, and governance to women and youth can’t be achieved without including them both in the decision-making process.
• Busari Kunle, an environmentalist, and a registered Surveyor in Construction firms in the Niger Delta believes in giving women and youth power to land use and governance without any interference, and promoting cooperatives for women’s banking as a tool for investment.
• Irene Ojuok, a senior researcher at the Right Livelihood College (RLC) in Kenya, speaks about the challenges women and youth face to access land and how granting access to them can help to build resilience against climate change. Kenyan dryland advocate, Charity Lanoi also adds to the importance of addressing cultural context by seeking permission from the elders and husbands in the community to carry out such projects.

Don’t miss this amazing Virtual tour through Cameroon and Kenya’s beautiful landscapes

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• There is a great opportunity for international actors to engage. Fostering a responsible land policy that is based on international policy frameworks like the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure (VGGT) has become a major concern.
• The Global Programme is a multidimensional program that contributes to global sustainable development goals by improving the land rights situation in selected countries.
• Multi-stakeholder dialogues are key to conflict resolution processes and this in turn enhances the likelihood of responsible investments in land.

Securing land rights across the globe

Examples of the core activities of the Global Programme include:

• The sensitization of partner institutions and local people in Benin
• The establishment of mechanisms to monitor and solve land conflicts in Laos
• Participatory land registration and titling in central and eastern Uganda
• Support to enhance management of individually owned land in Laos

Learn more about The Global Programme Responsible Land Policy and Why land rights matter

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Introducing the Global Programme Responsible Land Policy

In cooperation with policymakers in the partner countries, the Global Programme Responsible Land Policy project is working to improve the framework conditions for good land governance. Together with its partners, the project aims to introduce transparent procedures and mechanisms in land administration, thereby improving the population’s situation with respect to land rights.

The Global Programme is commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), co-funded by the European Union, and works in Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Laos, Madagascar, Peru (completed in 2021), Uganda and Paraguay (completed in 2018).

Strengthening small farmer’s land rights

The livelihoods of large parts of the world’s population depend directly on access to land. If access is denied, the results are often hunger and underdevelopment. The Global Programme has helped in:

• Strengthening the land rights of over 155,000 small farming households. Of these, more than 60,000 households have registered their land rights in the name of the woman or together as a couple.
• Resolving nearly 4,100 land conflicts.
• Additionally, more than 75 agricultural investors follow international guidelines and thus contribute to sustainable development.

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