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Land concentration and food security in Central America (es)

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Via Business World Online

August 18, 2015 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES

Posted on August 17, 2015 09:34:00 PM

By Tzili Mor, Director of the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights

Women’s rights and customary wrongs

SEATTLE -- One of the greatest challenges facing women in much of the world is the gap between their legal rights and their ability as individuals to claim them.

Women’s groups led by the National Federation of Peasant Women (Amihan) stormed the office of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Quezon City on the International Day of Rural Women, Oct. 15, to protest poverty, hunger and landlessness.

The groups then proceeded to Manila and brought their protest to the Don Chino Roces bridge (formerly Mendiola) near Malacanang.

Date: 7 July 2016

Source: Today

Fraught land policy based on collective ownership puts rural life at a crossroads

BEIJING — Among communist China’s holy pilgrimage sites, Xiaogang Village stands out. The tiny place is a living shrine to villagers who defied the party to dismantle disastrous communal farms that left more than 30 million dead from hunger during Mao Zedong’s reign.

[Editor’s note: Researchers at the environmental watchdog Global Witness say Cambodia’s ongoing land crisis is part of a larger global trend, one driven by economics and resource shortages. With less stability in markets and investments, investors have gone looking for farmland in countries like Cambodia, where it is easy to strike a deal, says Josie Cohen, a campaigner who has researched land grabs in the Mekong Delta for Global Witness.

Source: Land Rights Now Campaign

As India’s upper house is currently debating a controversial afforestation bill, civil society groups across the country are expressing concerns that the bill would do more harm than good.