Tanzania: Why Small-Scale Farmers Are the Real Heroes
By: Prof Marjorie Mbilinyi
Date: August 2nd 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
Indonesia: Hundreds leave home in palm oil conflict
By: Severianus Endi
Date: August 2nd 2016
Source: The Jakarta Post
Hundreds of residents from several hamlets in West Kalimantan have fled their homes to avoid arrest over their alleged involvement in a conflict with an oil palm company operating plantations in the area.
Kenyan Pastoralists Get Sh7.7 Billion World Bank Support
By: Kiarie Njoroge
Date: August 1st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
Pastoralists are set to benefit from a Sh7.7 billion World Bank loan expected to ease losses related to drought and disease.
The financing is expected to cater for a range of activities including water provision, re-seeding of rangelands, animal vaccination and storing fodder to ensure increased yields for about 93,000 pastoralist households.
Women's Land Tenure Security and LSLAs
Published today in the Mokoro newsletter online, an article from Mokoro Associate and WOLTS team member Roman Moges Asefaha.
Malawi: 'New Land Laws to Empower Chiefs, People '
By: Malawi News Agency
Date: August 1st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Malawi News Agency
The recent budget sitting passed land administration related bills which have raised controversy and at times outright misinformation. The Minister of Information, Communications Technology and Civic Education, PATRICIA KALIATI, provides some insights into the pieces of legislation and other related matters.
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Uganda: Government to amend land act to ease taking over private land for development
Date: August 1st 2016
Source: NTV Uganda
Members of Parliament have condemned government’s move, saying it’s suspect and could fuel land grabbing. They are vowing to oppose the amendment.
Group Warns of Rising ASEAN Land Grab Conflicts
By: Ron Corben & Bryan Lynn
Date: August 1st 2016
Source: VOA
An international human rights organization says Southeast Asia is facing increasing conflicts and violence over land grab activity. A “land grab” relates to taking land quickly, forcefully and often illegally.
China's Rapid Urbanization Blamed for Most Devastating Flood of the Decade
By: Erika Villanueva-Miranda
Date: July 31st 2016
Source: Yibada
China rapid urbanization is now blamed for the country's most devastating flood in history.
The recent calamity that brought China to its knees with a hefty $44.7 billion damage cost is partly caused by the country's "ruthless" urbanization for the past years, an analysis from Forbes revealed.
Kenya's rapid urbanisation takes toll on Maasai communal land
By: Shadrack Kavilu
Date: July 31st 2016
Source: Reuters
KITENGELA, Kenya, July 31(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It's just before sunset, the time of day when Maasai herdsman Josphat Ole Tonkei would have been counting his herd of cows after hours in the grazing fields, a few years ago.
Property rights for world's poor could unlock trillions in 'dead capital': economist
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: August 1st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When it comes to alleviating poverty and allowing people to live up to their potential, prize-winning Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto divides the world into two groups: the ones who have defined property rights and those who do not.