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CELADA presents

The Impacts of Formal and Informal Land Registration in Africa: Strengthening or Hindering Women’s Land Rights?

The Coalition for Equitable Land Acquisitions and Development in Africa (CELADA) invites you to attend a virtual panel discussion moderated by Bruce Moore, Former Director of the International Land Coalition, featuring:

Eileen Wakesho Mwagae, Advisor, Namati, Kenya
Bayush Tsegaye, Freelance Consultant, Ethiopia
Veronica Katulushi, Grass Roots Activist, Zambia
Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu, Senior Researcher, Cameroon

Please join us on Thursday, January 21, 2021
10AM Ottawa | 4PM Yaoundé | 5PM Lusaka | 6PM Addis/Nairobi

Registration required: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U3lf-dhvRk26Y5FnKSUxZw

Registration is free but CELADA welcomes donations to support the webinar and other related CELADA activities

(please send donations by e-transfer to celadacanada@gmail.com)

CELADA invites to you to join us for our upcoming virtual panel discussion, “Women’s Land Rights and Food Security in Africa”. The panel will be moderated by Chris Huggins, assistant professor at the University of Ottawa, and feature the following panelists from Ghana, Ethiopia and Madagascar, who will explore the relationship between women’s secure access to land and food security in these select African countries.

Panelists include:
Agnes Apusigah, Regentroopfen College, Ghana
Ama Appiah-Acheampong, Ghana Irrigation Development Agency, Ghana
Bayush Tsegaye, Freelance Consultant, Ethiopia
Mamy Rakotondrainibe, Collective for the Defence of Madagasy Land-TANY, Madagascar

Please join us on
Thursday, November 12, 2020, 10:00 -11:30 EST
Please use the following link to access a recording of the presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIbeGNHXZ20&feature=youtu.be

UPDATE:
While Bayush Tsegaye was unable to join the webinar due to technical difficulties, she has since provided her PowerPoint presentation:

Recording now available on Youtube:

Webinar Details:

CELADA will be co-hosting a free webinar with the Group of 78, Interpares, Seed Change and the Africa Study Group, featuring a presentation from Timothy A. Wise. Join us at 1PM EDT on April 28th to learn about/explore the future of our global food system in the context of the climate and COVID emergencies. To receive the webinar access details, please register on Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-battle-for-the-future-of-food-in-the-deepening-climate-and-coronavirus-global-emergencies-ft-tickets-102184069302

Outline:

A series of recent United Nations reports on the growing climate emergency highlights the urgent need to change the way we grow, market, and consume our food if we want to meet the UN goals to end hunger by 2030. The current pandemic reveals additional vulnerabilities in our global food systems. Based on his extensive research in India, Mexico, the United States, and several countries in Southern Africa, Timothy A. Wise presents key findings from his recent book, Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food (New Press, 2019). He echoes UN calls to reduce dependence on fossil-fuel-based inputs and promote a transition to short supply chains, local and regional food webs, and low-input ecological agriculture.

Timothy Wise:

Timothy A. Wise is a senior researcher at the Small Planet Institute, where he directs the Land and Food Rights Program. He is also a senior research fellow at Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute, where he founded and directed its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program. He previously served as executive director of the U.S.-based aid agency Grassroots International. He is the author of Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food (The New Press) and Confronting Globalization:Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Join us Friday, February 7 for an Ethiopian dinner, jazz, good company and a good cause! A fundraiser for the Coalition for Equitable Land Acquisitions and Development in Africa (CELADA).

Date & time: Friday, February 7th, from 7PM to 9PM

Place: Hareg Café, 587 Bank Street, Ottawa (between Strathcona and Pretoria)

The band –Stay Tuned/Restez-à-l’écoute — will play soul, 1960s rock and jazz classics at Hareg Cafe where you’ll experience delicious and traditional Ethiopian dishes

The Ethiopian buffet available with mostly vegetarian and some meat and chicken dishes will be served for only $15/person (drinks extra).

We encourage you to join us as this event will offer CELADA an avenue to raise awareness about our cause, as well as funds for activities in the coming months.

It is on the 6, 7 and 55 OC Transpo lines.

Street parking is available in the surrounding neighbourhood

CELADA was pleased to collaborate with University of Ottawa’s Assistant Professor, Chris Huggins, in hosting a panel presentation on March 27th, 2019 entitled “Governance of African Land Rights, and Implications for Women. Attendees included students, faculty, policy makers and development practitioners, and discussions explored the potential for Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy to strengthen African women’s access and rights to land.

Canada has a Feminist International Assistance Policy that commits 50% of Canada’s overseas assistance funding is dedicated programmes in Africa. In most African countries, agriculture and other resource-based livelihoods remain important to the majority of the population. In farming communities, women are responsible for much of the labour – at least 50% although it is often said to be 70% – but they rarely have full control over the land that they farm. It is extremely rare for women to actually have full legal ownership over land, for various legal, cultural, financial and other reasons. Some countries, such as Rwanda and Kenya, among many others – have put in place laws on inheritance and land ownership which provide women with legal rights to register land in their own name. However, in practice, there are often barriers which prevent women from taking ownership. This is especially the case for those who are not formally married or are second or third wives (i.e. in polygamous households).

Chris Huggins moderated an insightful panel discussion which featured four highly experienced, expert women who talked about different aspects of this topic:

• Nyambura Githaiga, Canadian Foodgrains Bank
• Lindsay Mossman, Aga Khan Foundation
• Shakilla Umutoni, Rwanda High Commission to Canada
• Jean Symes, Interpares

We welcome you to review some of their presentations for further details!

CELADA became one of the newest members of the International Land Coalition (ILC) this year and will be attending their Global Land Forum  in Bandung, Indonesia and a related field visit in West Java in a few weeks. With 206 members in 34 countries, CELADA joins a global network of organizations that are working to promote people centred land governance through the following ten commitments:

• Secure tenure rights
• Strong small-scale farming systems
• Diverse tenure systems
• Equal land rights for women
• Secure territorial rights for indigenous peoples
• Locally-managed ecosystems
• Inclusive decision-making
• Transparent and accessible information
• Effective actions against land grabbing
• Protected land rights defenders

CELADA looks forward to meeting and building partnerships with its fellow members!

Karl Nerenberg, the pianist/convenor of the jazz-and-other-music group “Stay-Tuned / Restez-à-l’écoute” will be playing jazz, soul and 1960s pop at Jambo Restaurant on Wednesday, April 25th, from 7:30PM to 9:30PM.

We encourage you to join us as this event will offer CELADA an avenue to raise awareness about our cause, as well as funds for activities in the coming months.

Jambo Restaurant is an African restaurant located on 69 Kempster Avenue in Ottawa. The cuisine is inspired by the traditional foods of Eastern and Central Africa.

Hear from the board on our new membership to the International Land Coalition, some recent and upcoming events and our overall strategy in moving CELADA forward.

New members welcome!

April 4 2018 at 5:30PM
University of Ottawa campus
Faculty of Social Sciences Building – Room FSS4006

Our chair, Roy Culpeper, and one of our board members, Obang Metho, sit down to discuss land access and rights in sub-Saharan Africa on ADDIS Meraf English Program In Collaboration with ESAT Program. Tune in to learn more: