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Sarawak gov't awards land rights to 373 Miri squatters
By: Zikri Kamarulzaman
Date: May 5th 2016
Source: Malaysiakini
S'WAK POLLS The Sarawak BN government today awarded individual land rights to 373 squatters in rural Miri, who will now be relocated to proper housing in the satellite town of Tudan.
The recipients were from three squatter villages in the Piasau constituency, namely Kampung Pasir, Kampung Api-Api and Kampung Merican.
The three villages are mainly Dayak areas. Dayaks make up about half of Piasau's 41 percent bumiputera voters.
III Cumbre Continental de Comunicación Indígena del Abya Yala
La III Cumbre Continental de Comunicación Indígena del Abya Yala es convocada por las 5 confederaciones indígenas originarias campesinas de Bolivia: Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia CSUTCB, la Confederación Sindical de Comunidades Interculturales Originarias de Bolivia CSCIOB, la Confederación Nacional de Mujeres Campesinas Indígenas Originarias de Bolivia “Bar
III Continental Summit of Indigenous Communication of Abya Yala to be presented at UNPFII 2016
The III Continental Summit of Indigenous Communication of Abya Yala will be officially presented at this year’s session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.
Raising Walls Against the Sea
By: Rafiqul Islam
Date: May 12th 2016
Source: Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, May 12 (IPS) - Facing the bleak prospect of millions of its citizens being displaced in coming years due to sea level rise caused by climate change, Bangladesh is building up existing coastal embankments in a bid to protect coastal lands and people.
CURRENT ISSUES OF AGRICULTURAL LAW IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
2015 AgLaw Colloquium – Current Issues of Agricultural Law in a Global Perspective
Conference organised by the Agricultural Law area
Scientific Directors:
M. Alabrese, M. Brunori, S. Rolandi, A. Saba
LEGEND first land policy bulletin now out
The DFID is delighted to launch the first Land Policy Bulletin, which introduces a new land and responsible investment programme - Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND).
The Land Policy Bulletin is available for download here.
Extent of Farmland Grabbing in the EU
This study looks at the rise of large-scale land deals, ‘land grabbing’, in the EU. It finds significant evidence that farmland grabbing is underway in the EU today. It discusses a number of the drivers of farmland grabbing in the EU and examines the impacts of farmland grabbing for European food security and food sovereignty, rural employment and vitality, and environmental sustainability. It argues that farmland grabbing, especially when connected to other burning European land issues, calls for a reform of European land governance.
Recordings of presentations and powerpoints of the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2015 now available online
The Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty organized by the World Bank Development Economic Research Group (DECRG) is a key global event where representatives from governments, civil society, academia, the development community, and the private sector come together annually to discuss new developments and progress on land policy and implementation.
Click on the link below to see the videos of the presentations:
Act On It! Four key steps to stop land grabs
Over the past 15 years, tens of millions of hectares of land have been acquired by large investors in developing countries. The Land Matrix documented 1,037 transnational land deals covering 37,842,371 hectares during this period, while many more deals remain undocumented.1 This global land rush is causing widespread forced evictions and denial of access to key land and natural resources for millions of women, small- scale food producers, pastoralists, gatherers, forest dwellers, fisherfolk, and tribal and indigenous peoples.