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Property rights and miracle trees: Growing climate-smart agriculture in Zambia
By: Stephen Brooks
04 December 2015
Joseph Zulu never uses the term “climate-smart agriculture,” even as he proudly points out the fertilizer trees he planted between rows of crops on his field in Zambia’s eastern province. But whether he uses the term or not, Zulu is a wonderful example of how climate-smart agriculture can be incorporated into traditional farming environments.
Factbox: Haiti six years after the quake - What's changed?
By Anastasia Moloney
Date: Jan 13th, 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, killed more than 200,000 people, leveled much of the capital Port-au-Prince and left 1.5 million Haitians homeless.
South Africa: Land bill ploughs against grain of redress
By: Anthea Jeffery*
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: Business Day Live
Opinion & Analysis
UNDER cover of the race debate, two senior communists (Thulas Nxesi and Jeremy Cronin) are pushing through Parliament the Expropriation Bill that will greatly harm all South Africans — especially the jobless poor.
Housing, living in India fraught with accessibility, other challenges: Report
By: Elizabeth Roche
Date: February 8th 2016
Source: Live Mint
Housing and Land Rights Network said that certain policies aim to redress the housing and land crisis in India, others promote inequality and insecurity
India: Senior citizens take battle to land sharks
By: TNN
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: The Times of India
CHENNAI: A small plot of land Bagwati Sundar, a senior citizen living in Tambaram, bought in 1986 near Hindu College was safe, ironically, only till the state government showed interest in acquiring it.