News on Land

By: Rina Chandran

Date: 9 January 2017

Source: Reuters

A commercial painter by trade, K. Raja dreamed of setting up his own business in Surya Nagar slum, in the southern Indian city of Chennai, where he had lived all his life.

But his dream faded last February, when he and about 1,000 other families were evicted with a day's notice and relocated 20 km (12.4 miles) away, their homes demolished.

Source: Global Water Partnership

A new GWP perspectives paper outlines that the governance of land and water needs to be coordinated in order to feed the world’s growing population. The aim of the paper is to galvanise a discussion within the GWP network and the larger water, land, and development community.

Source: Global Water Partnership

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.

Via landaccessforum.org

World Forum on Access to Land (WFAL) 2016

Valencia, Spain

March 31st -April 2nd, 2016

WORLD FORUM ON ACCESS TO LAND (WFAL) 2016

Call for inputs - Opening of regional discussion phase

The farmer and the cowman, the musical Oklahoma tells us, should be friends. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, a remarkable young African woman who campaigns for land rights for her pastoralist Mbororo people, would agree.

On 15 November 2015, human rights defender Mr Augustin Alphonse Bofaka was interrogated by the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) in connection with a recent protest against a multinational company accused of land grabbing and environmental degradation.

He also received several threatening phone calls as a result of his role as a community mobiliser.