Nigéria
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30 Août 2017
Mr Aliyu Bananda, Director, Drought and Desertification Amelioration Department, Federal Ministry of Environment says the Federal Government is committed to achieving land degradation neutrality by 2030.
Bananda said this at a workshop on Endorsement of Nigeria Voluntary Target to Achieve Land…
29 Août 2017
•Police arrest kidnap kingpin, 47 other suspects
•Assembly criticises FG over rats’ infestation claim
Scores of women yesterday took to the streets and barricaded the Effurun roundabout axis of the East-West Road in protest over an alleged land-grab and sale of about 185.20 hectares of prime…
25 Août 2017
Date : 21 août 2017
Source : Farmlandgrab
(Agence Ecofin) - Le jeudi dernier, le groupe Dangote a débuté le paiement d’une indemnisation évaluée à plus de 2,3 millions $ à plusieurs propriétaires terriens dans l’Etat de Nasarawa. En effet, ces derniers ont perdu leurs terres dans le cadre d’un…
9 Août 2017
Civil Society Organisations in Edo State, under the umbrella of Coalition for Protection of the Environment, recently staged a protest against land grabbing and deforestation. Adibe Emenyonu who was there, reports
Bose Eruanga is a peasant farmer from Uzalla, Owan West Local Government Area of Edo…
1 Août 2017
Lagos state government has disclosed that it has disbursed the sum of N8 billion as compensation to individuals and groups whose properties were affected by ongoing construction projects in the state in the last one year.
Special Adviser on Urban Development, Mrs. Yetunde Onabule, who made this…
28 Juin 2017
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Voice is a new innovative grant facility that supports the most marginalised and discriminated people in ten low- and lower-middle income countries in Africa and Asia. It aims to amplify and connect thus far unheard voices in efforts to leave no one behind.
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27 Juin 2017
Lagos state announced its intention to demolish the homes of around 300,000 people last year and this ruling is a landmark for residents resisting eviction
LONDON, June 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A series of brutal, government-ordered evictions that left more than 30,000 Nigerians homeless…
4 Juin 2017
Worried by the high rate of deforestation in the state and its negative consequences, some communities in Cross River State have called for the adoption of forest governance as a way to tackle the menace.
Rising from a two-day workshop on forest governance organised by Waneledon, a non-government…
16 Mai 2017
When bulldozers rolled into their forest at the start of last year, the Ekuri community in southeast Nigeria protested: "Indigenes say no!"
They didn't want a superhighway that would wipe their ancestral lands in the Cross River National Park off the map.
Under pressure, the earthmovers left to…
9 Mai 2017
Date: 3 mai 2017
Source: Irin
Par Linus Unah
Ce reportage fait partie d’un projet spécial traitant des conséquences du changement climatique sur la sécurité alimentaire et sur les moyens de subsistance des petits paysans au Kenya, au Nigeria, au Sénégal et au Zimbabwe
Okechukwu Onwuma se…
6 Avril 2017
Dr (Mrs) Ladi Shambo is the MD of Dijmeds Ventures Limited, a company that is into food processing and Shea butter processing.
After her retirement from the civil service, she decided to start producing spices.
“I produce ginger powder, garlic powder, chili pepper and mixed spice (‘yaji’) and ‘…
27 Mars 2017
Cross River set up one of the world’s protected forest reserve, raised a high standard for conservation, but Governor Ben Ayade still draws environmentalists’ ire for his stance on converting part of the area under the United Nations Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (…