By: Stephen Yeboah

Date: August 23rd 2016

Source: The Conversation

The interaction between artisanal (small scale) mining and agriculture in Africa still needs to be carefully considered by policy makers to ensure that people’s livelihoods and countries' export revenues aren’t threatened. It’s also important that the relationship between the two sectors is optimised to mutual benefit.

Tiempo Muerto, or “The Dead Season,” visits sugar plantations across the Philippines, when many farmers struggle with hunger and deprivation because there’s no work during this off-milling period of the year. The season can be so brutal on farmers that more than a quarter of a million people—a whopping 385,000 sugar workers, known as “sakada”—are affected on Negros Island alone.

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By: Sel San

Date: August 22nd 2016

Source: Radio Free Asia

Two land rights activists in Cambodia were convicted Monday of insulting a public official for their version of a “Black Monday” protest earlier this month.

By: Magdalena Mis and Isaiah Esipisu

Date: August 22nd 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Around the world, farmers are ageing as the sector fails to attract younger talent who head instead to cities in search of work

ROME/NAIROBI, Aug 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For Kenyan farmer Pauline Wafula, there was never a question that her children would have to get their hands dirty and learn how to grow their own food.

By: The Editors

Date: August 17th 2016

Source: World Politics Review

By: Bongani Mthethwa
Date: August 21st 2016
Source: Sowetan Live

One of the first pilot projects that will see workers and farm owners become co-owners of a farming enterprise as part of government’s 50/50 land policy was officially launched in KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday.

The pilot project‚ which was unveiled at the Westcliffe Farm near Greytown outside Pietermaritzburg‚ was to have been officially launched by President Jacob Zuma.

By: Darshan Kunwar|

Date: August 20th 2016

Source: The Times of India

DEHRADUN: Three weeks after the state government issued an order granting ownership rights to 2,500 families living in 123 slums and low-lying localities, chief minister Harish Rawat on Saturday said that the process to regularize their land will begin from October 2.

By Matthew Ponsford

Date: August 19th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The leader of Brazil's Munduruku indigenous people has appealed for international support to protect his people's ancestral forest land in the remote Amazon following the defeat of a mega-dam project that attracted celebrities including Paul McCartney.

By: Helen Davidson
Date: August 19th 2016
Source: The Guardian

Freedom Day festival celebrates August 1966 strike that kicked off a tradition of Indigenous Australian protest – one that continues at the festival itself

Thousands flocked to the remote Aboriginal community of Kalkarindji on Friday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Wave Hill walk-off.