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.
The mainland’s 900 million farmers will be on the lookout for rural land use reforms after a signal from the finance minister that change could be in the wind.
But the complexity of the issue meant any changes would not be direct or fast in coming, analysts said.
In an article published in Communist Party journal Qiushi (Seeking Truth) on the weekend, Finance Minister Lou Jiwei beat the drum for bold reforms on collectively owned rural land, saying it would be an effective way to speed up the country’s urbanisation drive.
The World Bank is pleased to invite abstract submissions for the 17th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty from March 14 to 18, 2016 in Washington D.C. under the theme of
Scaling up Responsible Land Governance: Examples, policies, and impact
Agrilinks, the USAID Bureau for Food Security’s Knowledge Sharing platform, will be hosting an "Ask Ag" online chat on July 22 (noon-1:00 PM ET) on the unique challenges of—and solutions to—land tenure issues. The chat will be hosted on the Agrilinks website and open to the public.
In the face of displacement due to large-scale development projects, can innovative legal solutions be used to protect smallholders' land rights?
Land tenure is a complex and sensitive issue throughout West Africa and nowhere more so than in Niger.
