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Land and Natural Resources Tenure: Rights and Policy Challenges

17 April 2018

The increasing demand for land and natural resources brings diverse users into competition. There is a clear need to secure legitimate rights and develop effective processes to resolve disputes without conflicts. Natural resources degradation, which is an increasing challenge in many Feed the Future regions, can be addressed by integrating environmental management practices that boost agricultural productivity, increase incomes and enhance resilience to drought and other environmental shocks.

As States Create Land Banks for Private Investors, Conflicts Erupt Across India

19 September 2017

State governments are building land banks, using both private and common lands, to attract investment in manufacturing and infrastructure, but at the cost of people’s rights.

India: Baghpat administration begins probe into ‘illegal’ land grabbing to expand Ram Rahim’s ashram

29 August 2017

Baghpat Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) Arun Kumar said department officials have been assigned to assist the district administration in the inquiry. Action will be decided on the basis of the report, he added.

India: Tribal communities seek recognition of their land rights

India: Tribal communities seek recognition of their land rights

10 August 2017

International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples celebrated in the Nilgiris The International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples was celebrated at the Tribal Resources Centre in Udhagamandalam on Wednesday. Organised by the Southern Regional Centre of the Anthropological Survey of India, the eco-development committees in Wenlock Downs Shooting Medu, Avalanche and Cairn Hill, as well as the Nilgiri Primitive Tribal People’s Federation, the event was attended by top officials from the forest department as well as the district police, including Srinivas R Reddy, Field Director of the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and District Superintendent of Police, Murali Rambha.

Guatemala’s indigenous people are at risk of losing their land

By: Esther Yu Hsi Lee

Date: October 10th 2016

Source: ThinkProgress

About 60 percent of the country’s population is comprised of indigenous people.

Kenya: Gov’t raises alarm over public land grabbing

By: John Wanyama

Date: October 6th 2016

Source: The Citizen Digital

The Ministry of land has raised a red flag over the rising cases of land grabbing and misuse of private land in the country.

Uganda: Gertrude Njuba - New Law Must Stop Court-Aided Land Grabbing

By: Siraje Lubwama
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Observer

Capt Gertrude Njuba, the head of the State House Land department, wants the proposed amendments to the Land Act to include strict provisions that make it extremely difficult for courts of law and land agents to aid land grabbing.

Uganda: Proposed New Land Law Sparks Public Outrage

By: Frederic Musisi

Date: August 25th 2016

Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor

Kampala — The new proposed amendments to the Land law that seeks to provide for compulsory acquisition of land for government development projects such as roads and other infrastructure have sparked outrage, with sections of Ugandans now accusing the government of trying to grab their land.

'Scotland must end absurdly outdated land ownership system'

By: Karin Goodwin

Date: August 14th 2016

Source: Herald Scotland

THE SCOTTISH Government must stop giving “carte blanche” to rich industrialists who are buying up vast swathes of Scotland’s countryside and instead bring about more radical land reform that benefits local communities, according to campaigners.