Date: December 22nd 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / African Development Bank Group
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Women in Parliaments Global Forum (WIP) hosting the first meeting of the WIP Council on Economic Empowerment in Kenya
By: Lisa Nikolau
Date: December 21st 2016
Source: Humanosphere
An indigenous group in northeast Ecuador said it has detained 11 government soldiers who were traveling through its territory in a canoe amid an ongoing dispute with the government over land rights.
By: Souha Touré
Date: December 21st 2016
Source: Ecofin Agency
(Ecofin Agency) - In order to curb land grabbing which is growing significantly, Tanzanian authorities have adopted a new land policy that brings to 33 years, from 99, the lease duration for foreigners, Eurasia Review reports.
By: Francis Mugerwa
Date: December 21st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Hoima — Fifty three families which were evicted from land to pave way for the construction of an oil waste treatment plant by a US firm in August 2014, have finally reached an understanding with the landlord to restore them on the land.
The 53 are part of the 250 families that were evicted from Rwamutonga village, Bugambe Sub-county in Hoima District and are living in an internally displaced peoples camp.
By: Beverly L Peters
Date: December 21st 2016
Source: Dispatch Live
Almost 40 years after independence, land reform remains at the heart of Zimbabwe’s political and economic challenges. But perhaps more than any other issue in Zimbabwe, it has historically been met with inertia from government and the international community.
By: Rina Chandran
Date: December 21st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India must pass a law granting women equal rights to land as men if the country is to ensure more food is grown for its more than 1 billion people and greater respect for the environment, a leading scientist said.
The world's largest agribusiness corporations are rolling out a public-private partnership programme to take control of food and farming in the Global South.
By: Frinston Lim
Date: December 19th 2016
Source: Inquirer.net
TAGUM CITY – The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on Monday reinstated the ownership of the 145-hectare land to the 159 farmers under the Madaum Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association Inc. (Marbai) in Barangay Madaum here.
The farmers were locked in a dispute with banana firm Lapanday Foods Corp. (LFC).
By: Francis Mugerwa
Date: December 19th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Perched on a wooden stool under a tree shade in his courtyard, Mr Eriakimu Kaseegu, props his cheek in his right palm, seeming to be in deep thought. His home is located in Kisimo Cell, Buliisa Town Council in Buliisa District, some 284 kilometres northwest of Kampala. The area has at least 26 oil wells.
By: Tracy Barnett
Date: December 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
LA YESCA, Mexico(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Audelina Villagrana has run her ranch in Mexico's Western Sierra Madre mountains on her own since the death of her husband 23 years ago, herding livestock, hiring local Huichol people and even raising a young Huichol boy like a son.