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US: Farm worker education promotes government trespassing, land rights group says
By: Geoffrey Mohan
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Los Angeles Times
A proposal by the state’s farm labor watchdog to gain access to fields so it can educate workers about their rights is running into strong opposition from growers, even before it has been written into regulation.
Activities of Herdsmen Threaten Ghana’s Food security
By: Admin
Date: February 17th 2016
Source: News Ghana
Ghana is in rough spot. Its commodity prices are falling and the country’s last resort which is the agriculture sector is being threatened by the activities of Fulani herdsmen who migrate into the country from the Sahelian region of West Africa.
Uganda: Bidco Dismisses Land-Grab Claims By Kalangala Farmers
By: George Omondi
Date: February 25th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Nairobi — Edible oil manufacturer Bidco has dismissed compensation claims raised by Kalangala farmers' lobby saying its involvement in Uganda's palm oil development project does not include land transaction.
In a letter addressed to banks, lawyers and international organisations, Bidco's cheif executive Vimal Shah said the land on which its plantation stands was properly acquired by the Ugandan government.
Berta Cáceres one of hundreds of land protesters murdered in last decade
By: Damian Carrington
Date: March 4th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Killings of environmental protesters, often indigenous people fighting to protect land, on the rise with 2015 likely to have been deadliest year on record
South Africa: Search for common ground in land-reform debate
By: Brian Whittaker
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Business Day Live
WHAT is the courageous conversation we are not yet having with the unknown future — the world that lies over the horizon, but has not yet been fully articulated? The poet, David Whyte, wants to know.
New Green Challenge: How to Grow More Food on Less Land
By: Richard Connif
Date: March 21st 2016
Source: Yale Environment 360
If the world is to have another Green Revolution to feed its soaring population, it must be far more sustainable than the first one. That means finding ways to boost yields with less fertilizer and rethinking the way food is distributed.