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Infrastructure: Sri Lanka should rethink housing for urbanizing population
By: LBO
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Lanka Business Online
Sep 23, 2016 (LBO) – Sustainable city development will need to entail alternative housing for urban poor as they are service providers for city dwellers, industrial hub and the ports while also looking at affordability for the middle income earner, a senior official said.
Namibia: Buying Land, One Dollar At a Time
Via AllAfrica.com
Namibia Economist
28 AUGUST 2015
Namibia: Buying Land, One Dollar At a Time
By Ibilola
The SME Bank of Namibia has come out in support of the Land-A-Dollar campaign to collect small amounts of cash from consumers for the purpose of establishing a land fund to assist the government’s ambitious urban land servicing programme.
Can land-sharing dispel shadow of eviction for Uganda slum?
By: Yasin Kakande
Date: October 3rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
KAMPALA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The bulldozers came after midnight, sirens wailing. Startled from their sleep, slum-dwellers on the outskirts of Uganda's capital Kampala dashed for safety as the diggers tore through wood, brick and corrugated iron.
Sri Lanka: New land policy to ensure the land rights of the people - President assures
President Maithripala Sirisena said that he will fulfill the obligation of eliminating poverty from the country under his regime as previous leaders of the country fulfilled their significant responsibilities towards the country and the nation during their respective regimes
He made these observations on Friday (30) participating in a ceremony held in Urubokka, Matara to distribute 4000 Ranbima land deeds to the people in the Pasgoda Divisional Secretariat.
12 farmers fighting for land reform arrested in Philippines
By: Barbara Mae Dacanay
Date: October 12th 2016
Source: The Gulf News
Manila: Twelve farmers fighting for land reform were arrested and have remained in prison based on a complaint of a landlord in central Philippines at the start of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte who has revived peace talks with the 48-year-old Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), a rights leader said.
The WRF receives the Jacques Diouf award from the United Nations in recognition of its work for Family Farming
30 November 2015, a ceremony has been held in Rome where the World Rural Forum received the Jaques Diouf award from the FAO, in recognition of its support for dialogue between rural communities and its political promotion of family farming.
Uganda: Mabirizi Promises Tribunal to Protect Land Rights
By: John Okot
Date: January 12th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com
Gulu — Independent presidential candidate Elton Joseph Mabirizi has pledged to set up a land tribunal that will fight cases of land grabbing when elected into office.
Speaking to residents in Cerelenu market, Gulu, at the weekend, Mr Mabirizi said he will ensure the people in the north don't lose their source of livelihood to land grabbers.