News on Land
Get the latest news on land and property rights, brought to you by trusted sources from across the globe.
African Women Meet At Mount Kilimanjaro to Demand Rights
By: Jean d'Amour Mbonyinshuti
Date: October 12th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The New Times
Rwandan rural women, together with their counterparts from various countries on the continent, will today convene at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in an effort to advocate for unrestricted women's rights to land and other natural resources across the continent.
Tenure Analyst, Strategic Analysis and Global Engagement
The Tenure Analyst is responsible for conducting and managing original, high-quality research on forest and land tenure, women’s land rights, climate, and conservation in the world’s developing and forested countries, maintaining and advancing RRI’s global tenure methodologies and databases, coordinating collaborative work on RRI priority themes, and contributing to other aspects of the Strategic Analysis and Global Engagement Program (SAGE) and the RRI Coalition.
IGAD Advances Implementation of AU Declaration on Land
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Land Policy Initiative (IGAD LPI) Project, in collaboration with the Land Policy Initiative (LPI) of the African Union and with support from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), this morning opened a one-day validation workshop on the Mapping of Research and Training Institutions and Country Profiles on the Status of Land Governance in IGAD Member States in Nairobi.
India: LAND ENCROACHED ON FOR 8 YRS; AUTHORITIES DID NOTHING
By: Chetan R, Bangalore Mirror Bureau
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: Bangalore Mirror
In a curious case, a routine hearing at the state information commission on denial of information exposed a 20-acre land grabbing case in the real estate hotbed of Doddaballapur.
Namibia introduces bill to ban foreign ownership of land
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: Africa News Agency
GABORONE – The Namibian government has tabled a new land ownership bill that seeks to bar foreigners from owning agricultural, commercial and communal lands.
The truth about land and home ownership in South Africa
By News24Wire
Date: February 23rd 2016
Source: Business Tech
Changes in property ownership in South Africa have been nothing short of dramatic in the last two decades and is one of the biggest success stories, but is never brought to the fore, economist Mike Schussler told Fin24.
Kenyans sound alarm over election threat to public land
By: Katy Migiro
Date: December 29, 2016
Source:Thomson Reuters Foundation
NAIROBI, Nov 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Kenya counts down to elections in 2017, public schools and hospitals should map their boundaries, fence them and get title deeds to protect them from irregular acquisition by politicians seeking re-election, experts and campaigners said on Tuesday.
Mozambique's Movement to End Land Grabs
By: Anabel Lemos
Date: March 2nd 2016
Source: Truth Out
This article was drawn from an interview with Anabela Lemos, and conducted, edited and condensed by Simone Adler.
Anabela Lemos is cofounder, campaign coordinator and board member of Justiça Ambiental, the Mozambique branch of Friends of the Earth.