By: Greg Scruggs
Date: September 15th 2016
Source: Citiscope
By: Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Date: September 16th 2016
Source: New Times
Sitting in the doorway of her residential house in the remote Murundi Sector, Kayonza District in Eastern Province, Verena Uwineza is sorting beans for evening meal on a traditional basket.
It is Monday, September 12. By most accounts, everybody has been affected by prolonged drought in this area.
By: Kizito Makoye Shigela
Date: September 15th 2016
Source: In Depth News
VILABWA, Tanzania (IDN) - At a small village south of Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, women rarely talk about land issues because customary norms keep them at bay. “We don’t have the voice, its men who decide everything,” said Saada Hassan a resident of Vilabwa.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 15th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
By: Holly Miller
Date: September 16th 2016
Source: Women's Agenda
By: Berndatte Christina Munthe
Date: 15 September 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Indonesia's highest Islamic council has issued a fatwa on burning land and forests, a government official said on Wednesday, in an effort to halt the toxic smog that blankets the region each year.
By: Rina Chandran
Date: September 13th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When India's Tata Power engaged SPARC, a group focused on housing for the urban poor, to help relocate hundreds of families living under and around its distribution towers, it was the start of a long, complex process.
By: Deon Schlechter
Date: September 14th 2016
Source: New Era
Namibia has the potential and is poised to enable a programme of improved rangeland management in local level land use planning and improved marketing conditions in communal areas.
This is true for the northern communal areas (NCAs) – where restrictions on marketing, farmers’ perspectives and current practices make improved rangeland management extremely challenging.
By: Mark M. Dahn
Date: September 14th 2016
Source: Mongabay
