News on Land

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.

Via Maliasili Inititiaves

African organizations working to improve natural resource management have made great gains, but face serious challenges that limit their efforts to grow and sustain their impact. This short video provides an overview of the challenges they face and provides recommendations for addressing these issues.

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By: May Titthara

Date: August 19th 2016

Source: Khmer Times

Provincial officials in Rattanakiri rejected a request by the Vietnamese government to allow them to construct buildings and a border checkpoint in O’Yadav district after a meeting between both sides in Banlung City on Tuesday.

Forced evictions of ordinary Zambians from their land have become rampant to pave way for development. Rights activists want to intervene and protect local people from land grabbers.

Land grabbing is on the increase

By: Chris Arsenault 

Date: August 30th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

"People are actually dying because of this issue"

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Brazil's Amazon where no-one knows who exactly owns a swathe of territory the size of Ukraine, a lack of formal property deeds is causing conflict, greater deforestation and environmental damage, researchers said on Tuesday.

BLIDA - Le ministre de l’Agriculture et du Développement rural, Youcef Cherfa a annoncé, mardi à Blida, le lancement, au cours de cette année, de la mise en valeur de 500.000 hectares de terres dans les wilayas du sud, en vue de promouvoir les capacités nationales en matière de production de céréales.

By:  Karlo Mikhail Mongaya

Date: September 8th 2016

Source: Global Voices

Dar es Salaam — Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa has told regional and district commissioners to address land conflicts in their areas.

The PM issued the directive yesterday in Lindi when he was speaking to the region's authorities on his arrival in Ruangwa.

"Land is a property of the government, but areas which are being used for various activities of development should not be used as a source of conflicts among the people we lead," he said.