News on Land

By: Linda Nyondo
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Zambia Daily Mail

A GROUP of African women including Zambians are next month expected to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to advocate for women’s land rights.

Action Aid communications officer Hellen Mwale confirmed the development in a statement in Lusaka recently.

 

In Asia, various legal instruments have been used to recognize indigenous peoples within the legal framework of State. States have recognized indigenous peoples through constitutional provision, special laws, and court decisions and/or through ratification or adoption of international instruments. However, legal recognition by states does not always guarantee the full range and enjoyment by indigenous peoples of their individual and collective rights as provided in international instruments such as the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The World Bank estimates that by 2025 Indonesia will have 68 percent of its population living in cities or urban communities. As such, Indonesia’s cities are among the fastest growing cities in the world. However, without a unified spatial data system, urban planning is a daunting task while urbanization challenges become harder to predict. The World Bank's City Planning Labs project provides support for the development of a single spatial data infrastructure in the cities of Indonesia.

MOMBASA: More than 20,000 public primary schools are yet to secure title deeds, the National Lands Commission (NLC) has announced.

Speaking in Mombasa during the annual primary head teachers’ conference Monday, NLC Chairman Muhammad Swazuri said only 4,000 out of the 30,000 public schools have title deeds, sparking fears of encroachment by developers.

By Soni Daniel,  Northern Region Editor

Date: October 9th 2016

Source: Vanguard

Senate gives Army, FCT Minister ultimatum to sort out Abuja land grab

Via Euractiv.com

By:  Georgi Gotev

SPECIAL REPORT/ In a wide-ranging exclusive interview, Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan shared his vision of how the EU and developing countries could greatly improve global food security togther, through innovation and sustainable farming practices.

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By: Matheus Hamutenya
Date: October 24th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / New Era

After their land resettlement applications failed for about two decades, a group of fed-up farmers on Thursday moved onto farm Dickbusch - owned by government - with their livestock.