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India: Vasundhara Raje wins the ‘title’ on reforms
By: Swati Ramanathan
Date: April 8th 2016
Source: Live Mint
OPINION
The passage of the Rajasthan Urban Land (Certification of Titles) Bill marks the most dramatic event in the history of property rights reforms in the country
Brazil urged to expand land rental market but small farmers aren't convinced
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 8th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Under rental agreements, small-scale landowners retain their title deeds, but larger companies with access to capital and machinery pay for the right to use the land to grow their crops
Securing communal land rights for Tanzania's Indigenous Peoples
By: Sophie Morlin-Yron
Date: April 25th 2016
Source: The Ecologist
Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron. That ability to straddle the two very different worlds he inhabits has been key to his success at having 200,000 acres of land registered into village and community ownership - and his own 2016 Goldman Prize.
New Urban Agenda good on ‘what’ but not on ‘how’, critics warn
By: Greg Scruggs
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Citiscope
The Habitat III strategy ‘doesn’t go far enough on financing’, one observer noted at an event on the eve of the U.N. General Assembly.
Map could aid fight by indigenous people for Central America land
By: Sebastien Malo
Date: May 12th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new map shows areas occupied by indigenous people in Central America, using previously untapped native knowledge, that could help claims by local tribes to ancestral land amid rapid deforestation, its makers said.
Ghana to lose over $3m project over land dispute
By: Eliasu Tanko
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: STARRFM Online
A longstanding land dispute which continues to brew raw tensions in the Bole district of the Northern region has threatened the survival of a $3,139,383 poverty alleviation project.
The project, Babator Irrigated Farming Hub, an initiative of the Africa Agriculture Development Company (AgDevCo) a social impact investor and project in Agriculture sector missioned to reduce poverty, hunger, under-nutrition and improve food security.
Tanzania seizes 'idle' land from investors to return to poor farmers
Author: Kizito Makoye | @kizmakoye
Date: June 1st, 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Tanzania has begun a nationwide programme to seize land left undeveloped by investors and return it to poor farmers, in a bid to quell conflicts between farmers, herders and developers.
For more than a decade, foreign investors have bought up large tracts of land for agriculture or for energy projects, but many have left the land unused.
