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Deforestation-driven food-web collapse linked to emerging tropical infectious disease, Mycobacterium ulcerans

Peer-reviewed publication

November, 2016

Global

Generalist microorganisms are the agents of many emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), but their natural life cycles are difficult to predict due to the multiplicity of potential hosts and environmental reservoirs. Among 250 known human EIDs, many have been traced to tropical rain forests and specifically freshwater aquatic systems, which act as an interface between microbe-rich sediments or substrates and terrestrial habitats.

Scotland: Budget increased to bring greater transparency to land reform

By: Roseanna Cunningham

Date: January 4th 2017

Source: Scottish Housing News

Overall funding for land reform will be increased by £3.4 million in 2017, with the existing Scottish Land Fund budget maintained at £10m, the Scottish Government has announced.

South Africa's land reform efforts lack a focus on struggling farmers: Rhodes University Scholars

By: Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba and Monty J. Roodt

Date: January 4th 2017

Source: R News

South Africa’s land reform programme has suffered many failures and its beneficiaries have in many cases seen little or no improvements to their livelihoods.

How Tropical Deforestation and Land-Use Change Are Driving Emerging Infectious Diseases

By: Mike Gaworecki

Date: December 20th 2016

Source: Mongabay.com

There’s already ample evidence of the ways environmental degradation can contribute to the spread of infectious diseases, and now a recent study provides an example of how the disruptions to an ecosystem caused by deforestation and other land-use change can help spread a bacterial pathogen.

Paraguay Police Repress Displaced Campesinos Fighting for Land

Date: 3 January 2017

Source: Telesur

A land conflict continues to brew after some 200 campesino families were evicted from the Guahory community in September.

Jokowi grants first-ever indigenous land rights to 9 communities

Date: 4 January 2017

Source: Mongabay

The Indonesian president moves to keep his promises to the nation’s indigenous groups.

Women’s Rights in Land Investment Decisionmaking: Interview with Celine Salcedo-La Viña

Date: January 2nd 2017

Source: Food Tank

UN experts slam Ecuador over forced closure of land rights group

By: Sebastien Malo

Date: December 30th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations criticized the government of Ecuador on Friday for ordering the closure of a land rights advocacy group that supports an indigenous community protesting mining plans in land they claim as their ancestral home.

United States: New S.C. property tax law protects family land rights

By: Patrick Phillips

Date: January 2nd 2017

Source: Live 5 News

A new law in South Carolina that took effect Sunday protects families whose land has been passed down through generations but who may not have adequate legal proof of ownership.

The Clementa Pinckney Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act took effect on Sunday, the first day of 2017.

Philippines: Bugkalot tribe receives land titles

By: Leander C. Domingo, TMT

Date: January 2nd 2017

Source: The Manila Times

NAGTIPUNAN, Quirino: For the Bugkalot tribe, it is a blessed New Year receiving their Certificates of Land Ownership (CLOA) as Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries (ARBs) from Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano.

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