News on Land

Source: BBC News
11 December 2014

By Ashraf Padanna
Trivandum

For more than five months, a group of 50 tribespeople have been standing outside a government office in the southern Indian state of Kerala to press their claim for land and amenities.

They are demanding that the government deliver on its promise of giving land, water and electricity to the community.

Tribespeople comprise nearly 500,000 of Kerala's 33 million people and are mostly landless and desperately poor.

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Author: Beh Lih Yi

JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two men were charged in a Malaysian court on Friday over the killing of an indigenous land rights defender, in a case which has cast a spotlight on tribespeople's decades-long struggle for recognition.

NEW YORK TIMES

Palm Oil Company Is Accused of Exploiting Liberia's Ebola Crisis

By CLAIR MacDOUGALL

AUG. 1, 2015

Community land rights are only vaguely recognized in Liberia, with current laws granting the government powers to seize land for concessions.

Read the full article at the NY Times

By: Girmachew Gashaw
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Ethiopian Herald

OPINION

Farmers summit towards solving landlessness

Via TeleSURtv

By: teleSUR / md-CM-mk

Land reforms are essential to achieving a long-standing peace after half a century of conflict, said Colombian academic Alejandro Reyes on September 10 during a forum on agrarian issues in Bogota.