ADVOCACY & CAMPAIGNS

To advance land rights as a key environmental solution, we:

1. Engage in all three Rio Conventions, promoting land rights as a critical solution to the planet’s climate and biodiversity crises. 
2. Support National Land Coalitions in bringing their land rights advocacy to national policy processes and provide strategic data to strengthen national advocacy initiatives. 
3. We partner with global initiatives such as the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

ILC supports our member-led platforms in advancing the implementation of the UN Decade of Family Farming. As part of this, we ensure that land rights remain a key component of National Action Plans.

We also support our members in advocating for land rights throughout the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants (UNDROP), ensuring that both land rights and gender equality in land rights are reflected in the final outcomes.

The right to land and UNDROP manual can be found here.

We work with our members— especially farmers, pastoralists, and Indigenous Peoples— to advocate in global and regional spaces for their crucial roles in building sustainable food systems.

Many of our members are particularly active in the Committee on World Food Security (CFS), where we advocate for land rights in global discussions on food security and nutrition. 

Our Indigenous Peoples platforms operate at both regional and global levels. The Global Platform consists of one regional representative from each of our four regions, a youth representative, and a global observer. It meets regularly and holds at least one in-person meeting, typically during the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII).

Beyond UNPFII, we coordinate collective engagement in global and regional processes, including the Rio Conventions, the Escazú Agreement, and the Aarhus Convention.

We craft narratives that prove achieving SDG land targets is indispensable to the broader 2030 Agenda.

We work with our members to collect data on land-related SDG indicators and we monitor how Member States report on these targets. 

To drive momentum for the SDG land targets, we leverage the side events and opportunities to meet with key stakeholders and influence negotiations at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF).

For more information and SDG progress reports click here.

We work with our women’s constituencies to develop advocacy strategies on women’s land rights in many policy spaces, including the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) and Rio Conventions.

We also support National Land Coalitions in collecting data and developing alternative reports to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). These reports showcase shortcomings and progress in women’s land rights at national levels. Read the reports from:

• Bangladesh
• Guatemala
• Philippines

The pastoralist constituency of ILC is formed by 26 peoples organisations that represents 3,376,224 people, along with others who have a strong competency on pastoralist issues. They are engaged through three regional platforms in Africa, Central Asia and South Asia, and a growing working group in the EMENA region. ILC’s pastoralist members are also enabling change by participating in the National Land Coalitions in 10 countries including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Montenegro, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, India.