Study maps 187 land conflicts as palm oil expands in Kalimantan
By: Rachel Diaz-Bastin
Date: December 20th 2016
Source: Mongabay.com
Did Habitat III make progress on the stickiest of urbanization issues — land reform?
By: Gregory Scruggs
Date: 15 December 2016
Source: Citiscope
Policymakers will be pushed to recognize the importance of tenure reforms in cities, analysts say. Such processes also can do much to stem rural migration to cities.
Pre-cooked beans could turn down heat on Africa's dwindling forests
By: Pius Sawa
Date: 16 December 2016
Source:PLACE.TRUST.ORG
"I used to stay away three hours looking for enough wood to cook beans, but now it is easy because I need just a small bundle"
Rights Campaigners: Mining Projects, Big Plantations Mean Bolivia's Drought Hurts More
Water shortages caused by Bolivia's worst drought in 25 years have been exacerbated by booming population growth in cities, poor infrastructure and the impact of big agricultural plantations and mining projects, campaigners say.
Bolivia declared a national state of emergency last week as a prolonged drought has decimated crop harvests and cattle, affecting more than 177,000 families across the country.
International Land Deals for Agriculture
Reports & Research
December, 2016
Global
Land acquisitions continue to be an important trend
Large-scale land acquisitions continue to be an important issue for governments, development organisations, NGOs and farmers’ organisations all over the world; this remains the case even in times of global economic slowdown, recession and crisis. The scale of this trend and its significant impacts on rural transformation and livelihoods make it necessary to further monitor, observe and positively influence such deals wherever possible.
Why Zimbabwe has failed to sate the yearning for land and to fix rural hunger
Date: 12 December 2016
Source: The Conversation
Almost 40 years after its 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.
Prominent Honduran land rights activists report death threats
By: Paola Totaro
Date: 16 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Four high profile Honduran rights activists fighting to protect their ancestral lands in the southwest of the country have received death threats, including a home visit by a man wielding a machete, a monitoring group said on Friday.
Govt. not serious about implementing Forest Rights Act, say adivasi groups
Date: 16 December
Source: The Hindu
“If the government genuinely wants to do good by us, all it needs to do is to give us our constitutional rights over our jal-jangal-zameen (water-forest-land) as per the FRA.”
Haiti - Justice : National Forum on Land Security in Haiti
Date: 16 December 2016
Source: Haiti Libre
Corruption, caste keep poor from owning land in northern India
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 14 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
For decades, Kunta lived in a hut outside Kachhidih village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, enduring the insults of higher-caste villagers who claimed her land - which she did not legally own - for grazing cattle.
She dreamed of owning just a small piece of land for her family who belong to the traditionally low-caste Dalit group.