News on Land

June 1st marks International Children’s Day, a global celebration of children and an opportunity to bring special attention to how secure land tenure positively affects children. Evidence from a number of countries suggests that when women have secure rights to land and other assets their children and their communities also benefit. For example, in countries where women have wea

Date: 16 December 

Source: The Hindu

“If the government genuinely wants to do good by us, all it needs to do is to give us our constitutional rights over our jal-jangal-zameen (water-forest-land) as per the FRA.”

By: Mike Gaworecki

Date: December 20th 2016

Source: Mongabay.com

There’s already ample evidence of the ways environmental degradation can contribute to the spread of infectious diseases, and now a recent study provides an example of how the disruptions to an ecosystem caused by deforestation and other land-use change can help spread a bacterial pathogen.

Source: FAO

14/11/2014 - 2nd meeting of the organizing committee on access to land calls for civil society organizations and governmental institutions to mobilize and launch global debate on land tenure and investment agreements 

The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) has recently published an outcome note from a roundtable focused on lessons learned from good governance initiatives for extractive industry investments and large land-based agricultural investments.