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Opinion: Why Zimbabwe land reform has failed to remedy rural hunger
By: Beverly L Peters
Date: December 21st 2016
Source: Dispatch Live
Almost 40 years after independence, land reform remains at the heart of Zimbabwe’s political and economic challenges. But perhaps more than any other issue in Zimbabwe, it has historically been met with inertia from government and the international community.
With climate deal, activists seek land rights for native people
By: Sebastien Malo
Date: April 21st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With world leaders converging in New York to sign a landmark climate deal, activists along with actor Alec Baldwin called on Thursday for a halt to deforestation, a contributor to global warming, by giving indigenous people rights to their land.
Human rights abuses complaint against WWF to be examined by OECD
By: Patrick Barkham
Date: 5 January 2017
Source: The Guardian
In unprecedented move, OECD will look into allegations that world’s largest conservation organisation facilitated abuse of Baka people of Cameroon
Call for Papers: AgLaw COLLOQUIUM
The Institute of Law, Politics and Development is pleased to announce the 2016 AgLaw Colloquium which will be held on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 October, 2016.
The AgLaw Colloquium is intended to be an opportunity for early-career researchers (Ph.D. candidates and post-docs) to present and discuss their results and methodological approaches in a supportive environment. It is inspired by the wish to share on-going analysis, questions and exploration fields in agricultural law from a global perspective.
PLAAS announces new initiative to promote women’s land and water rights in Southern Africa
What can be done to secure poor rural people’s rights to land and water they depend on for their livelihoods, and what must be done to ensure that women’s access and tenure is secured?
Kenya's flourishing flower sector is not all roses for Maasai
By: Shadrack Kavilu
Date: 30 june 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The shores of Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley are dotted with bustling shanty towns but it has not always been like this.
The local economy has grown dramatically since the late 1980s when the first commercial flower farms were established in the area, around 90 km (55 miles) north west of Nairobi.
