By: Ruth Tene Natsa
Date: June 15th 2016
Source: The Leadership
One of the key challenges to the development of the nation’s agro sector is the country’s ageing farming population. Ruth Tene Natsa writes on the need to encourage youths to go into agriculture as a business.
By: Deirdre Fulton
Date: June 14th 2016
Source: Common Dreams
Big Ag's global land grab is huge, growing, and "extending its reach to new frontiers," according to a new report from the international non-profit GRAIN.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: June 14th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Encroaching on Land and Livelihoods examines whether national expropriation laws in 30 countries across Asia and Africa follow the international standards established in Section 16 of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGTs). Section 16 of the VGGTs establishes standards on expropriation, compensation, and resettlement to ensure tenure security and responsible land governance. The UN Committee on World Food Security officially endorsed the VGGTs in 2012.
From 25 January to 5 February 2016, the Land Portal hosted a discussion on the Gender Evaluation Criteria (GEC), a flexible framework comprised of 6 criteria and 22 evaluation questions with possible indicators that can be adapted to a wide range of different situations that were developed as a flagship tool of the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) and its partners, and have been piloted and disseminated among a wide range of stakeholders at global and country level since 2007.
By: VNS
Date: June 12th 2016
Source: Vietnam.net Bridge
By: By Ham Yen - translated by Uyen Phuong
Date: June 12th 2016
Source: SGGP English
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors yesterday approved US$310 million to help Vietnam build climate resilience and ensure sustainable livelihoods of 1.2 million people living in nine Mekong Delta provinces affected by climate change, salinity intrusion, coastal erosion, and flooding.
By: Associated Press
Date: May 28th 2016
Source: Santa Fe New Mexican / Associated Press
SOC TRANG, Vietnam — When the rice shoots began to wither on Lam Thi Loi’s farm in the heart of the Mekong Delta, a usually verdant region of Vietnam, she faced a hard choice: Let them die in the parched earth, or pump salty water from the river to give them a chance.
By: Andy White, Rights and Resources Initiative
Date: Thomson Reuters Foundation
By: Greg Scruggs
Date: June 10th 2016
Source: Citiscope