Youth Engagement in Food Security and Land Governance
Concerns over nourishment frailty in developing countries are reflected within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end starvation, accomplish nourishment security and improved nutrition, and advance feasible farming by 2030. Given that land plays a vital part in most of individuals in developing countries, nourishment security and destitution lessening cannot be accomplished unless this agricultural issue, security of residency, and the capacity to utilize the land productively and in a feasible way are tended to.
Thus, the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN), as facilitated by UN-Habitat, is implementing “Secure Access to Land and Resources (SALaR)” Project through the support of Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), with the overall goal of improving land and natural resources tenure security of rural smallholder farmers in Uganda, the Philippines, and Laos.
Within the Philippines, whereas a number of agrarian laws are being implemented, a few holes got to be tended to to make strides the circumstance of their expecting beneficiaries. Hence, “Improving Tenure Security of Smallholder Farmers in Select Areas in the Philippines” aims to contribute to the goal of SALaR Project. The project is implemented by the Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) in partnership with Xavier Science Foundation, Inc. (XSF), with technical and financial support from Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) and Germany’s Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
As portion of the said venture, five issue briefs were distributed to highlight women’s, youth’s, and inborn people’s support in landscape governance; and the importance of property conflict management and harmonization of development plans in protecting property and resource tenure. These issue briefs too include the Philippine- and community-level circumstances on the over points and how the GLTN arrive instruments are connected within the nearby setting.
