News on Land

By: Cécile Barbière

Date: Wednesday 8 June 2016

Source: The Guardian

Euro-MPs criticise G7-led food security programme, saying it pushes agribusiness and GM to the detriment of biodiversity and small-scale farmers

By: Katy Migiro

Date: 23 June 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Millions of widows across Africa are left destitute after being evicted from their homes and are too poor or uneducated to seek legal redress, campaigners say.

Source: Forest Peoples Programme

8 December, 2014

Communication and Resources Mobilization Specialist

The Land Portal Foundation

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The Land Portal foundation is a non-profit organization headquartered in Groningen, The Netherlands.

By: Sophie Mbugua

Source: BRACED

SESIMWANI, Kenya – Birds sing, feet shuffle, as women and men of all ages emerge from spreading canopies of green.

Dressed in gumboots and carrying umbrellas, they hurry towards the Olodomut Nursery School in Sesimwani village, in Kenya’s Mau Forest. The community land mobiliser has called a meeting for the entire Ogiek community to discuss its by-laws.  

In Asia, various legal instruments have been used to recognize indigenous peoples within the legal framework of State. States have recognized indigenous peoples through constitutional provision, special laws, and court decisions and/or through ratification or adoption of international instruments. However, legal recognition by states does not always guarantee the full range and enjoyment by indigenous peoples of their individual and collective rights as provided in international instruments such as the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.