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New Perspectives Paper: Coordinating Land and Water Governance
Source: Global Water Partnership
A new GWP perspectives paper outlines that the governance of land and water needs to be coordinated in order to feed the world’s growing population. The aim of the paper is to galvanise a discussion within the GWP network and the larger water, land, and development community.
Source: Global Water Partnership
After violent struggle for land, Thai campaigners face challenge to community farming
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Author: Alisa Tang
KLONG SAI PATTANA, Thailand (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Klong Sai Pattana, a rural community carved out of an illegal oil palm plantation by land rights campaigners, new arrivals are given a one-year trial run at being farmers.
Malaysia: Indigenous communities want their maps recognised
By: Loh Foon Fong
Date: August 7th 2016
Source: The Star Online
SHAH ALAM: NGOs representing indigenous people are urging the federal and state governments to recognise the maps indigenous communities have drawn up to demarcate their land.
USAID Ask Ag online chat on land tenure July 22 @12pm ET
Agrilinks, the USAID Bureau for Food Security’s Knowledge Sharing platform, will be hosting an "Ask Ag" online chat on July 22 (noon-1:00 PM ET) on the unique challenges of—and solutions to—land tenure issues. The chat will be hosted on the Agrilinks website and open to the public.
Simpler laws needed to avert conflict over India's scarce land
By: Rina Chandran
Date: August 18th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Conflicts over land in India will only increase as its economy grows quickly, and the most effective way to prevent them is to ensure land laws are simpler and more transparent, a leading campaigner said.
World Forum on Access to Land (WFAL) 2016: Call for inputs / regional discussion phase
World Forum on Access to Land (WFAL) 2016
Valencia, Spain
March 31st -April 2nd, 2016
WORLD FORUM ON ACCESS TO LAND (WFAL) 2016
Call for inputs - Opening of regional discussion phase
Ireland: Land is wetter and less productive - and we only have ourselves to blame
By: Richard Hackett
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: The Independent.ie
Normally at this time of year, while the harvest is still being wrapped up, thoughts rapidly turn to the next cropping season.