The Potential of Collective Land Management Through CLT in the Global South

On October 27, 2022, the Favela Community Land Trust Project held the webinar “New Paths for Building Sustainable Cities: The Potential of Collective Land Management Based on the Community Land Trust“, bringing together CLT organizers with a focus on practices rooted in the Global South.

We debated the potential of the model for establishing sustainable cities in line with SDG #11, as part of Urban October 2022, a UN-Habitat initiative for the dissemination of events that explore topics such as the right to housing and the city, and in partnership with World CLT Day, organized by the Center for CLT Innovation.

With the support of World Habitat, urbaMonde, Habitat International Coalition and the Center for CLT Innovation.

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Participants

• Yves Cabannes (Portugal), Professor at University College London and participant of Mutirão 50 (in the 1980s) in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza.
• Lyvia Rodrigues (Puerto Rico), Urban planner and co-founder of the NGO El Enjambre
• Mariolga Juliá Pacheco (Puerto Rico), Administrative advisor at the Fideicomiso de la Tierra Caño Martín Peña, one of the first experiences of a CLT in informal settlements
• Maria da Penha Macedo (Brazil), Resident of Vila Autódromo, co-founder of the Evictions Museum, committed to the struggle for the right to housing and the city
• Mario Núñez Mercado (Puerto Rico), Executive director of the Fideicomiso de la Tierra Caño Martín Peña and resident of one of the Caño communities
• Theresa Williamson (Brazil), Urban planner, founder and executive director of Catalytic Communities (CatComm)
• Juan Blanco (Brazil), Environmental manager engaged with sustainable urban planning and agro-ecology, cultural producer and writer

Moderator: Tarcyla Fidalgo (Brazil), Urban planner and coordinator of the Favela Community Land Trust Project