By: Patrick Adoga
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Today
As the world celebrates the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations today, conservationists have warned transnational companies from Europe, America and Asia against scramble for land in Nigeria and Africa for industrial agro-business.
By: Linda Nyondo
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Zambia Daily Mail
A GROUP of African women including Zambians are next month expected to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to advocate for women’s land rights.
Action Aid communications officer Hellen Mwale confirmed the development in a statement in Lusaka recently.
By: Phnom Penh newsroom
Date: September 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Four women land rights activists were sentenced to six months in prison by a court in Cambodia on Monday for insulting and obstructing public officials during a 2011 violent land rights protest.
Seizure of land for development is a major cause of protests in Cambodia and other countries in the region, including Laos.
By: Greg Scruggs
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Citiscope
By: Roy Prosterman (Landesa)
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Since World War II, there have been five great Asian development success stories founded upon land tenure reforms that allocated land ownership, or equivalent long-term land rights, into the hands of small farmers. Will Burma be the sixth?
By: AGN Editor
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: All Ghana News
Accra, Sept. 20, GNA - The 2016 International Land Conference has started in Accra to enable participating countries deliberate on land policies and reforms and their impact on food security and poverty reduction in Africa.
By: Vicki Gass
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Oxfam America
By: Swastika Singh
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Fijivillage.com
Different varieties of dalo, yams, cassava and sweet potatoes are some of the climate change resilient crops.
Permanent Secretary for Agriculture Jitendra Singh says to achieve sustainable food security, land and water resources management has been identified as one of the priority areas.
By: Bryan Thomas
Date: 19 September 2016
Source: Diplomaticourier
An Emerging Philippine Case Study
Throughout human history, the contact between developed economies and indigenous people in undeveloped areas has created tension, and often tragedy. Today the challenge of creating a positive connection between developing and advanced orders remains a pressing, if elusive goal.