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Honduras Indigenous Leader Berta Caceres Assassinated in Home
Date: March 3rd 2016
Source: TeleSUR
Several unknown assailants broke into Caceres' home early Thursday and killed her. She was a prominent Indigenous and social movement leader.
Berta Caceres, the coordinator and co-founder of the Council of Indigenous Peoples of Honduras or COPIHN, was killed by unknown assailants early Thursday morning.
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Spring Module 2016 Transformações Agrárias em África
Publicado a 09/02/2016 às 16:45 por Ana Teresa Vaz
Este conjunto de seminários tem como objectivo apresentar as recentes reconfigurações da divisão internacional da produção alimentar e de comodities, as formas de penetração do capital nos países em desenvolvimento e os processos de resistência/integração dos sistemas de produção locais, em particular dos camponeses, bem como os conflitos políticos e sociais associados.
India's tribes and lower castes demand legal right to shelter, land
By: Nita Bhalla
Date: March 18th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
NEW DELHI, March 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For as long as she can remember, Panchi Sahariya and those in her tribal community in central India have been threatened, harassed, beaten and even arrested for living on land which does not legally belong to them.
South Africa: Farm co-ownership pilot project launched in KZN
By: Bongani Mthethwa
Date: August 21st 2016
Source: Sowetan Live
One of the first pilot projects that will see workers and farm owners become co-owners of a farming enterprise as part of government’s 50/50 land policy was officially launched in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday.
The pilot project‚ which was unveiled at the Westcliffe Farm near Greytown outside Pietermaritzburg‚ was to have been officially launched by President Jacob Zuma.
Ethiopia: Agency quits offering land for large scale agricultural investments
By: WIC
Date: March 22nd 2016
Source: Walta Info
Addis Ababa, March 22, 2016 (WIC) – The Ethiopian Agriculture Investment and Land Administration Agency (EAILAA) has given up offering land for large scale agricultural investments for an unspecified time.