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Tainted Lands: Corruption In Large-Scale Land Deals

Reports & Research
October, 2016
Global

A surge in land grabbing over the past decade has seen millions of people displaced from their homes and farmland, often violently, and pushed deeper into poverty. As demand for food, fuel and commodities increases pressure on land, companies are all too often striking deals with corrupt state officials without the consent of the people who live on it. Until now, there has been little analysis of the role that corruption plays in the transfer of land and natural resources from local communities to political and business elites.  

Land Disputes and Stalled Investments in India

Reports & Research
November, 2016
India

India’s ambitious development agenda involves facilitating investment for economic growth, infrastructure development, and social progress. Yet, thousands of investment projects have been stalled to date, raising red flags for the health of the country’s financial regulatory systems, public sector banks, and investment community. While official reasons given for stalled projects remain opaque, deep contestation leading to conflict on public (and private) lands must be better understood as a substantive risk to investments.

Land Conflicts in India: An Interim Analysis

Reports & Research
November, 2016
India

Land and resource conflicts in India have deep implications for the well-being of the country’s people, institutions, investments, and long-term development. These conflicts reveal deep structural flaws in the country’s social, agrarian, and institutional structures, including ambiguities in property rights regimes and institutions. In 2014, a study focusing primarily on reports in the national media reflected the gravity of these conflicts.

Philippines: Farmers decry 'landgrabbing' in Mindanao

By: Angelo Caballero

Date: November 16th 2016

Source: ABS News


DAVAO CITY - Over 600 farmers staged a protest in front of Lapanday Foods Corporation office in Barangay Pampanga to voice out their struggles over land rights Wednesday.


The agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs), who came from different parts of Mindanao want Lapanday to grant them the "government-awarded land" for them to return to farming and earn a living.

Agriculture and food security at heart of climate change action

Date:November 16th 2016

Source: FAO Press Office


FAO unveils new global framework for action on water scarcity at COP22 summit


16 November 2016, Marrakech, Morocco-The world must rapidly move to scale up actions and ambitions on climate change FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva told delegates at the United Nations Climate Change conference (COP22) in Morocco today.


The FIG Christchurch Declaration - Responding to Climate Change and Tenure Insecurity in Small Island Developing States

Manuals & Guidelines
Conference Papers & Reports
November, 2016
Global

This publication is the result of the workshop on “Responding to Climate Change and Tenure Insecurity in Small Island Developing States – The Role of Land Professionals” held in Christchurch, New Zealand 30 April – 1 May 2016 in connection with the FIG Working Week 2016. It includes a report of the seminar and a FIG Christchurch Declaration as the main outcome of the workshop.

Beneath the surface of Uganda's 'exemplary' refugee settlement, tensions simmer

By: Tom Gardner

Date: November 15th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation


LAKE NAKIVALE, Uganda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nyirahubinka Maria, a Congolese refugee and mother of two, lives in "New Congo", the oldest and largest of 86 small villages scattered over the plains and low rising hills that surround Lake Nakivale in southwest Uganda.


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