India: Forest rights and wrongs
By: Bittu Sahgal
Date: November 15th 2016
Source: The Indian Express
Namibia introduces bill to ban foreign ownership of land
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: Africa News Agency
GABORONE – The Namibian government has tabled a new land ownership bill that seeks to bar foreigners from owning agricultural, commercial and communal lands.
No. 6 Pastoralists Do Plan! Community-Led Land Use Planning in the Pastoral Areas of Ethiopia
Policy Papers & Briefs
November, 2016
Ethiopia
This issue paper No. 6 of the Rangelands Series consolidates a set of case studies which document how pastoralists plan landvand resource use in pastoral and agro-pastoral areas of Ethiopia.
The Drylands Advantage: Protecting the environment, empowering people
Reports & Research
November, 2016
Global
Marrakech, 11 November 2016 – A new report launched today by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) reveals the crucial role the world’s drylands play in buffering the negative impacts of climate change, land degradation and drought.
Namibia: Proposed law bans foreign landlords
By: Shinovene Immanuel
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: The Namibian
FOREIGN nationals will no longer be allowed to own agricultural, commercial and communal land if a proposed law tabled last week by lands minister Utoni Nujoma is passed in parliament.
Details on how government plans to ban foreign land ownership are contained in the Land Bill of 2016 tabled by Nujoma in the National Assembly last Thursday.
Kenya: State House to host land summit
By: Patrick Lang'at
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: Daily Nation
State House on Sunday promised an engaging summit on land, pledging answers on historical injustices as well as the thorny issue of how much land a person can own.
The summit will be held on Monday at State House, Nairobi, the seventh of a series of summits that the Jubilee administration says are to explain its achievements.
Opposition to Oil Pipeline in U.S. Serves as Example for Indigenous Struggles in Latin America
By: Emilio Godoy
Date: November 11th 2016
Source: Inter Press Service
Agriculture victim of and solution to climate change
By: Isabel Malsang
Date: November 13th 2016
Source: AFP
Paris (AFP) - Diplomatic wrangling this week will make the headlines in the fight against climate change, but experts say a bigger but largely unseen battle is set to unfold on the world's farms.
Agriculture holds the double distinction of being highly vulnerable to climate change but also offering a solution to the problem, they say.
Ethiopia: Imperative Action to Address Land Degradation
By: Justus Wanzala
Date: November 11th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Ethiopian Herald
ANALYSIS
Land degradation already affects millions of people, bringing biodiversity loss, reduced availability of clean water, food insecurity and greater vulnerability to the harsh impacts of climate change.
Namibia: Depleted land reform fund culled resettlement
Date: November 11th 2016
Source: The Economist Namibia
Resettled farmers cannot access the loan facility fund offered by Government and Agribank as part of land reform attempts by the Ministry of Land Reform.