News on Land

The Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives, and Poverty Alleviation has issued the "Working Policy on Registration, Use, and Leasing of Government Land, 2022" to systematise the record-keeping of government lands.

As per the working policy published in the Nepal Gazette last week, the land revenue offices concerned shall register all unregistered government lands in the name of the Government of Nepal.

Such lands include all the lands used by the Government of Nepal, provincial governments or local levels and their entities, but which have yet to be registered.

Rural 21, the International Journal for Rural Development, published an article by Laura Meggiolaro and Anne Hennings on the recently updated SDG Land Tracker. 

The Land Portal Foundation is looking for a Short-Term Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consultant

Main photo: Bangladesh’s side of the no-man’s land separating the country from India, Lalmonirhat district has been sitting idle for years but just over the edge, sprawling tea plantations are seen in the neighbouring nation. Considering the economic benefits of tea farming in these lands, local farmers have called for more public and private investment in this regard. This photo was taken in the Angorpota area of Patgram upazila in Lalmonirhat recently. Photo: S Dilip Roy

Food safety and transfer of modern technology and knowledge to farmers in Georgia were discussed between Agriculture Minister Otar Shamugia and United States officials in Washington, the Ministry announced on Friday. 

During his visit to the capital, Shamugia held meetings with Cary Fowler, the US Department of State’s Special Envoy for Global Food Security, and Jewel Bronaugh, the US Deputy Secretary of Agriculture.

• Singapore has launched a reforestation campaign after losing huge amounts of mangrove habitats in the past century.

• It plans to plant 1 million trees within 10 years to improve living conditions for wildlife and people.

• The scheme began in March 2020 and had led to the planting of 51,819 trees by October 2021.

• One goal of the project is to have all Singaporean households approximately a 10-minute walk from a park.

Main photo: The Chinese fence inside Myanmar’s territory in October 2021. / NamKhamnews

China has cut off electricity to a border village in northern Shan State for nearly nine months due to boundary disputes, according to residents. 

According to Mozambique analyst Joseph Hanlon the World Bank admits that its policy failed in Mozambique, leading to high growth but inequality, poverty, corruption. The World Bank cites the need to “rethink” the current model.

LANDac International Conference 2022 Session Summary

Representatives of a group of civil society organisations are calling for the United Nations Development Programme to retract a Memorandum of Understanding signed with the Musina-Makhado Special Economic Zone that could contribute up to 10% of South Africa’s total emissions from all sectors combined — and threaten water security from Limpopo to Zimbabwe.

LANDac International Conference 2022 Session Summary