Killings, land grabs threaten Filipino indigenous peoples
By: Artemio A. Dumlao
Date: August 9th 2016
Source: Philstar.com
Tanzania: Farmers encounter hurdles in accessing loans
By: Sylivester Domasa
Date: August 9th 2016
Source: Daily News Tanzania
Nigeria: Minister traces rapid urbanisation to traffic congestion, slums
By: Jeremiah Bako Gyang
Date: August 7th 2016
Source: Today Nigeria
The Minister of Power Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has linked the rising spate of urbanisation currently experienced in the country to traffic congestion, over-crowding ,substandard housing and slum development adding that the challenges are compounded by climate change, insecurity and poverty.
Colombia expands land restitution to war-torn south amid peace efforts
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: August 9th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Colombia is expanding its land restitution program into former no-go areas in the country's war-torn south aiming to return land stolen from farmers by illegal armed groups, the government has said as peace talks advance.
Deforestation in New England is rising thanks to land development
By: Kate Ravilious
Date: August 8th 2016
Source: Environmental Research Web
Malaysia: Indigenous communities want their maps recognised
By: Loh Foon Fong
Date: August 7th 2016
Source: The Star Online
SHAH ALAM: NGOs representing indigenous people are urging the federal and state governments to recognise the maps indigenous communities have drawn up to demarcate their land.
Cambodia: Dozens March Against Sugar Company ‘Land Grabs’
By: Kann Vicheika
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: VOA Khmer
The protesters from six villages in Koh Kong’s Sre Ambel and Botum Sakor districts claim that Koh Kong Sugar and Koh Kong Plantation encroached on their farmland.
Indigenous tribe applauds state move to cancel Brazil Amazon dam
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous people living in Brazil's rainforest have welcomed a decision by the national environment agency to cancel a proposed mega-dam in the Amazon which they say would have displaced communities while opening the sensitive region to logging.
Ethiopia: Land Reproaching to Solve Landlessness
By: Girmachew Gashaw
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Ethiopian Herald
OPINION
Farmers summit towards solving landlessness
Do mega events affect a country’s land and tenure rights?
By: Socorro Leite, National Director, Habitat Brazil
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
This year, Brazil is hosting the world’s biggest sports event – the Summer Olympic Games. While athletes arrive in Rio to compete for medals and global audiences prepare to watch the games, two questions are on the mind of Rio de Janeiro's residents: