By: Chris Lang / REDD Monitor
Date: February 8th 2016
Source: The Ecologist
By: Pia Ranada
Date: February 3rd 2016
Source: Rappler
MANILA, Philippines – Under the Aquino administration, farmers have endured a “total failure of land reform,” presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday, February 3.
By: Baher Kamal
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: Inter Press Service / AllAfrica.com
Cairo — Despite the enormous challenges facing Africa now, the leaders of its 1.2 billion plus inhabitants have decided to spotlight the issue of Human Rights With a Particular Focus on the Rights of Women in their 26th summit held in Addis Ababa on 21-31 January this year. Why?
By: Herbert Moyo
Date: January 29th 2016
Source: Zimbabwe Independent
PLANS by government to shift focus of the proposed US$35 million land audit to assessing levels of utilisation instead of naming and shaming multiple farm owners have evoked a sense of déjà vu as government sacrifices national interest on the altar of political expediency.
Herbert Moyo
By: Catherine Harry
Date: January 28th 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
As Cambodia slowly shifts away from labour-intensive agriculture, mechanised farming needs to take hold to sustain productivity.
By: Delfin T. Mallari Jr.
Date: January 28th 2016
Source: Inquirer Southern Luzon
It was a new day for farmers in an estate in Quezon province who had long been struggling to own the land they were tilling.
For the first time in their lives, farmers in the controversial Hacienda Matias in Quezon were able to keep the income from their harvests.
By: Rashida Ntotela
Date: January 22nd 2016
Source: Cii News
It seems the African National Congress (ANC) has a long way to go in redressing the historical injustice of land dispossession, denial of access to land and forced removals in South Africa.
By: Joshua Steckley and Beverly Bell
Date: January 21st 2016
Source: Upsidedownworld.org
This report is based on extensive interviews, on-site and via phone, with more than 20 government officials, economic development professionals, peasant farmers, and community organizers, between July 2015 and January 2016. We reached out to Agritrans for comment, but they did not respond.
By Carissa Wolf, Mark Berman and Kevin Sullivan
Date: January 4th 2016
Source: Washington Post
BURNS, Ore. — B.J. Soper has seen the frustration building for years in this rural corner of Oregon.
30 November 2015, a ceremony has been held in Rome where the World Rural Forum received the Jaques Diouf award from the FAO, in recognition of its support for dialogue between rural communities and its political promotion of family farming.
