Land is synonymous with identity, culture, power, development, food, and human security. Good land governance is essential for sustainable use of our land, our environment, our shared prosperity, and our common future, for a world in which all groups and multi generations live, thrive and prosper on land in equal stature.
Quote | Michael Taylor, Director, International Land Coalition
Michelle Tang2022-09-07T08:58:01+02:00ILC members come together to work for people-centred land governance. We believe that this is a pathway to addressing the major challenges of our time; mitigating the climate crisis, overcoming extreme inequality, building democracy and promoting sustainable food systems.
Quote | Victoria Stanley, Senior Land Specialist, World Bank
Michelle Tang2022-09-07T08:59:10+02:00Women’s access to and control over land is critical for development. We know from country studies that greater control over land leads to better food security and nutrition for that woman’s family. Investing in women’s land rights is an investment in the future.
Quote | Wael Zakout, Senior Technical Advisor and Global Lead for Land and Geospatial, World Bank
Michelle Tang2022-09-07T09:04:25+02:00Without land tenure systems that work, economies risk missing the foundation for sustainable growth, threatening the livelihoods of the poor and vulnerable the most. It is not possible to end poverty and boost shared prosperity without serious progress on land and property rights.
Quote | Frits van der Wal, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands
Michelle Tang2022-09-07T09:18:34+02:00Improved land rights for all and sustainable land use are absolute preconditions for achieving the SDG targets on food & nutrition security, climate resilience, rule of law, peace & stability, inclusive growth and gender equality. This requires coordinated multi-stakeholder action aligned with people’s priorities and (sub)national policies.
Quote | Adriano Campolina, Senior Policy Officer, FAO
Michelle Tang2022-09-07T09:20:05+02:00The relationship of ownership, access to and control over land is a part of a larger power inequity equation. Besides the regulatory environment, one also should consider the power dynamics and the political economy surrounding land issues.
Quote | Lindsay Katchika-Jere, Network for Youth Development, Malawi
Michelle Tang2022-09-07T09:56:28+02:00It is important to hear the voices of the youth themselves, in terms of what they want to happen if they are to be involved in the agricultural sector.
Quote | Ken Chamuva Shawa, ILO’s Regional Office for Africa
Michelle Tang2022-09-07T09:57:07+02:00The agricultural sector must be transformed by ensuring that we develop value chains that create jobs in the agricultural system and by encouraging and supporting the continental programs for agriculture, such as CAADP, to ensure and enhance youth employment.
Quote | Cyriaque Hakizimana, Young African Researchers in Agriculture
Michelle Tang2022-09-07T09:59:42+02:00A reconfiguration of land ownership across the African Continent needs to be undertaken with ownership by the youth being prioritised.
Quote | Mukulia Kennedy Ayason, African Union Commission
Michelle Tang2022-09-07T09:55:37+02:00We need to get more focused and engaged in decentralising our system of work and our system of policy-making, to ensure a bottom-up approach that develops policies which respond to the issues of youth.