By: INU Staff

Date: March 11th 2016

Source: Iran News Update

INU - The head of Iran's land affairs organization acknowledged in an interview with state television on Thursday that 800 government officials are implicated in cases of ‘land-grabbing’ in the country.

By: Johnson Okanlawon
Date: March 13th 2016
Source: National Mirror

By: Holly Young

Date: March 11th 2016

Source: The Guardian

Join an expert panel on Thursday 17 March, 1-3pm GMT to discuss how to recognise the rights of the world’s indigenous people

By: Bethany Augliere

Date: March 11th 2016

Source: Stanford News

A computer simulation shows that carefully designing government interactions with rural indigenous people is critical for protecting the sustainability of people, wildlife and the land.

By: Anthea Jeffrey
Date: March 11th 2016
Source: Rand Daily Mail

In pushing ahead with the bill, the ANC is determined not to allow black farmers to obtain ownership of land acquired for redistribution

In recent weeks, President Jacob Zuma and other ANC leaders have repeatedly identified rural "land hunger" as the major cause of poverty, inequality and unemployment.

Publicado a 09/02/2016 às 16:45 por Ana Teresa Vaz

Este conjunto de seminários tem como objectivo apresentar as recentes reconfigurações da divisão internacional da produção alimentar e de comodities, as formas de penetração do capital nos países em desenvolvimento e os processos de resistência/integração dos sistemas de produção locais, em particular dos camponeses, bem como os conflitos políticos e sociais associados.

By: Isis Almeida

Date: March 8th 2016

Source: Bloomberg Business

• Lower social status mean women get less food in many countries

• Women are responsible for more than 50% of global food output

Women account for 70 percent of the world’s hungry even as they produce more than half of the global food output, the United Nations said.

By: Boonnum Kerdkaew

Date: March 10th 2016

Source: Bangkok Post

UTTARADIT - Residents of two communities say land reform authorities plan to distribute land at Bueng Kalo marsh to wealthy people and relatives of politicians.

By: Janet Shoko

Date: March 9th 2016

Source: The Africa Report

Zimbabwe has set up a fund to compensate white commercial farmers who were dispossessed of their land during an often violent land reform programme that began in 2000.

By: Khine Kyaw

Date: March 10th 2016

Source: The Nation / Myanmar Eleven

CIVIL SOCIETY organisations (CSOs) and local residents living near the Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) have called for action from the Japanese, Myanmar and Thai governments to tackle human rights violations before allowing the project to resume.