Myanmar: Conflict and powerful companies stoke land disputes in Kachin
By: Thin Lei Win Myanmar Now
Date: February 23rd 2016
Source: Mizzima
La Laung Daung Nan vividly remembers the last day of April 2015.
FAO assists Iran on tenure of land, fisheries, forestry
By: PT/PR
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: Mehr News Agency
TEHRAN, Feb. 22 (MNA) – FAO has conducted a three-day technical workshop (21-23 February 2016) in Tehran focusing on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries, forestry and cross-cutting issues in the country aimed at enhancing national food security.
Ugandan farmers call on United Nations to sever ties with Bidco Africa
By: Babatunde Akinsola
Date: February 23rd 2016
Source: Naija247 News
Lake Victoria farmers cite Bidco land-grabbing, environmental destruction and human rights violations in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania
Myanmar: Rapid Migration and Lack of Cheap Housing Fuels Yangon Slum Growth
By: CONNOR MACDONALD & PHYO THIHA CHO / MYANMAR NOW|
Date: February 20th 2016
Source: The Irrawaddy
Kenya: When Ministers, Civil Servants Got 100 Acres and Farm House for Free
By: John Kamau
Date: February 21st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
OPINION
Many Kenyans have never heard about the Z-Plots - yet if anyone wants to investigate the origins of land grabbing in Kenya, this is where they should start.
Pakistan: The economics of land reform
By: Danish Khan
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: The International News
Due to the colonial history of Pakistan, land distribution is highly skewed in favor of political and social elites. According to estimates, four percent of the wealthiest rural landowners own more than fifty percent of all cultivated land in Pakistan. Moreover, fifty percent of the rural families are landless and this number is continuously on the rise.
Zika fuelled by rapid urbanization, poor conditions in Latam’s slums – experts
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: February 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation / Euronews
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The mosquito-borne Zika virus spreading through the Americas, linked to severe birth defects in Brazil, will not be controlled over the long-term unless governments improve poor living conditions in the region’s sprawling slums, experts say.
China should let its big cities grow
By: Ming Lu
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: Nikkei Asian Review
Chinese leaders have announced plans to reform the country's household registration, or hukou, system to transform domestic migrant workers into local citizens of the cities where they work and live. Such a policy change would mark a momentous development.
Pakistan: Sindh govt legalises Karachi slums
By: Aslam Shah
Date: February 19th 2016
Source: Daily Times
Sindh Assembly issues notification granting leasehold rights to slum dwellers
KARACHI: Thousands of innocent Karachiites are being deprived of their hard-earned lifetime saving in shape of properties encroached upon by the 'katchi abadis'.
Trans-Pacific Partnership Threatens Indigenous Land Rights Says the UN
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: TeleSUR
The trade agreement signed earlier in February will have a devastating effect on Indigenous people, the last guardians of our natural world.