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Call for Nigerian farmers to unite in battle to save lands
By: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Date: 4 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Agriculture is the largest sector of the Nigerian economy with studies showing 80 percent of the nation's food is produced by small-scale farmers, the majority of whom are women, and loss of land can impact millions of the 175 million population.
The Indonesian National Committee on Family Farming approves its action plan for 2016
Representatives of farming organisations, NGOs and the public research agency met in January 2016 in the Bina Desa offices in Jakarta.
Massacre Involving Land Rights Dispute Calls Paraguayan Justice System Into Question
Source: Equal Times
Author: Santi Carneri
Land is the greatest source of wealth in Paraguay, with an economy founded on the production and export of beef and genetically modified crops such as soya. But the industry is dominated by a small group of large landowners that represents just 2.5 per cent of the population owning 85 per cent of all the country’s arable land, according to the NGO Oxfam.
Papua New Guinea: Where Property Is More Expensive Than Manhattan
By: Sally Andrews
Date: March 22nd 2016
Source: The Diplomat
97 percent of land in Papua New Guinea is held under customary title, leading to sky-high prices for the remaining 3 percent.
Cambodia: Dozens March Against Sugar Company ‘Land Grabs’
By: Kann Vicheika
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: VOA Khmer
The protesters from six villages in Koh Kong’s Sre Ambel and Botum Sakor districts claim that Koh Kong Sugar and Koh Kong Plantation encroached on their farmland.
Tanzania: Solution for Land Squabbles in Sight
By: Kelvin Matandiko
Date: March 30th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
OPINION
Kilombero — Curbing land conflicts is high on the agenda of the fifth phase government's leader, President John Magufuli.
No wonder he cautioned new regional commissioners he recently appointed that they would be measured by how much each of them addresses the ever growing challenge in his area of jurisdiction.