News on Land

Date: November 11th 2016
Source: The Economist Namibia

Resettled farmers cannot access the loan facility fund offered by Government and Agribank as part of land reform attempts by the Ministry of Land Reform.

By: Salena Tramel

Date: February 18th 2016

Source: The World Post

Dynamic thematic portfolios combine detailed narratives with Linked Open Data to provide comprehensive global overview

GRONINGEN (11 November, 2016) — Forest tenure, gender and land rights, and indigenous and community land rights are all key thematic areas related to land governance. For this reason, the Land Portal is launching the first three comprehensive thematic portfolios focused on these issues.

Land & Gender

By: David Lawal

Date: February 24th 2016

Source: The Nation

The city of Abuja, under the auspices of the Government of Nigeria, is about to host a strategic event vital to the future of Africa and its citizens.

The Habitat III Africa Regional Meeting of 24-26 February is a crucial spur to the current global debate on urbanization as a source of prosperity and an engine of development.

By: Rina Chandran

Date: 14 December 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

For decades, Kunta lived in a hut outside Kachhidih village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, enduring the insults of higher-caste villagers who claimed her land - which she did not legally own - for grazing cattle.

She dreamed of owning just a small piece of land for her family who belong to the traditionally low-caste Dalit group.

By: Pambana Bassett
Date: March 5th 2016
Source: Amandela

The concerns about the massive land grab of Belize, whether it be up to the Sibun River, or the entire 8,867 square miles of land in addition to sea territory, are serious. The oligarchy of Guatemala has made a habit of usurping land from those to whom it belongs, for hundreds of years.

Date: 4 January 2017

Source: Mongabay

The Indonesian president moves to keep his promises to the nation’s indigenous groups.

By: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Date: March 14th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation