Peruvian environmental prosecutor documents Plantaciones de Pucallpa’s violation of government suspension order
Brazil's Guarani Indians killing themselves over loss of ancestral land
Source: The Guardian
Wednesday 18 May 2016 17.18 BST Last modified on Wednesday 18 May 2016 18.34 BST
Brazil's Guarani Indians killing themselves over loss of ancestral land
Arson attacks and eviction at gunpoint for plantations driving many to despair and take their own lives
First Mekong Region Land Forum
21 June 2016 - 23 June 2016
Hanoi
Vietnam
MRLG, GIZ and IPSARD are pleased to announce that they will organize the first Mekong Region Land Forum in Hanoi, on 21st to 23rd of June
Land tenure and livelihoods: What’s the connection?
By: Barbara Fraser
Date: May 16th 2016
Source: Forests News
New study finds that securing land rights doesn't always guarantee better livelihoods for communities in Peru, Indonesia and Uganda.
Land officials revoke rights for island plot
Date: May 12th 2016
Source: Bangkok Post
Phuket land officials yesterday decided to revoke land rights documents for a section of land on Naka Noi Island in the resort province.
Watcharin Jettanawanit, a provincial land official, yesterday said an investigation panel resolved to rescind the Nor Sor 3 Kor land rights documents for 24 rai of land on the island owned by Phu Khao Hok Look Co Ltd, or Six Mountains.
Top palm oil producer sues green group over deforestation allegations
By: Adam Vaughan
Date: May 9th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Malaysian palm giant, IOI, lost business after it was suspended from the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil’s certification scheme over deforestation allegations in Indonesia
Eyebrows raised over arrest warrant for missing land-rights campaigner
By: Pratch Rujivanarom
Date: May 7th 2016
Source: The Nation
A WARRANT was issued this week for the arrest of a missing activist for allegedly hunting in a national park, but his wife insists that her husband did not engage in such activity.
Water-poor Saudi Arabia moves farming venture to drought-stricken California
By: Matt Weiser
Date: May 6th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Almarai, the largest dairy business in Saudi Arabia, has purchased land in California to grow alfalfa for its cattle – and it’s rubbing some people the wrong way
Sarawak gov't awards land rights to 373 Miri squatters
By: Zikri Kamarulzaman
Date: May 5th 2016
Source: Malaysiakini
S'WAK POLLS The Sarawak BN government today awarded individual land rights to 373 squatters in rural Miri, who will now be relocated to proper housing in the satellite town of Tudan.
The recipients were from three squatter villages in the Piasau constituency, namely Kampung Pasir, Kampung Api-Api and Kampung Merican.
The three villages are mainly Dayak areas. Dayaks make up about half of Piasau's 41 percent bumiputera voters.
Colombia's war-weary farmers head home amid hopes and fears
By: Anastasia Moloney @anastasiabogota
Date: May 15th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
More than five decades of conflict have forced 6.7 million Colombians to flee their homes, many of them poor farmers, making the country home to the second biggest internally displaced population after Syria.
The government estimates that up to 15 percent of Colombian territory has been abandoned or illegally acquired through violence, extortion and fraud.