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Indigenous people in the Amazon are using drones to save their land
As logging and palm oil industries continue to decimate the Amazonian rainforest, the people who live in it are taking tech into their own hands to fight back.
Bakerwals pin their hope on new census to claim land rights
By the end of winter, nomadic tribes of J&K, the Bakerwals and the Gujjars, will for the first time be counted in a state-level census. The 2011 census did survey J&K’s nomadic population but a large number were left out because they were camping in remote high-altitude areas during the survey.
Land Reform: There Is NO Reason To Change Constitution, SA's Largest Farmers' Union To Tell MPs
AgriSA represents 28,000 commercial farmers. It believes the reason land reform has failed is not because of inadequate legislation.
The Constitution should only be changed if it is deemed impossible to implement proper land reform under the current legal framework.
There is, however, no compelling reason why the Constitution must be amended to enable land reform, the country's largest commercial farmers' union will tell the parliamentary committee reviewing South Africa's highest law.
Threatening wilderness, dams fuel protests in the Balkans
KNU AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT DECIDE TO PRIORITIZE MEASURING LAND, SOLVING LAND DISPUTES
The Karen National Union’s Agriculture Department will give priority to assist the public in obtaining their land ownership rights and solve land issues that rose up in the mixed controlled areas within this year.
The department made the decision during its 12th year-end meeting held at Kalo Yaw Hta under Hpa-an District on May 30.
Local residents from the KNU-controlled areas have been demanding the KNU to do required land measurements in order to obtain land grants.
Kenya to honour court ruling on Indigenous land rights
Kenya’s Ogiek people are optimistic of returning to their ancestral forests as the government has pledged to honour a landmark ruling ordering reparations for forced eviction.
Evictions have ceased and the Ogiek are rehabilitating parts of the Rift Valley’s Mau Forest one year after Africa’s highest human rights court told Kenya to compensate the forest-dwellers for violating their land rights, an Ogiek campaigner said.
Are corrupt politicians behind Peru's palm oil plantations?
In recent years, Peru's sprawling jungle has been cleared for palm oil and cocoa plantations. Conservationists say the land is controlled by private companies who acquired it through corrupt means.
Philippine peasants fight for land 30 years after reform
"Thirty years after the law was passed, land has not been given to peasant farmers who have tilled the land for generations"
TAGUM CITY, Philippines - A dozen bamboo and tarpaulin tents are pitched on the pavement, festooned with washing and banners - the department in charge of agrarian reform in Tagum City is sporting a new facade.
Honduran villagers take legal action to stop mining firm digging up graves for gold
Families face pressure to decide the fate of their relatives’ grave, dividing the community of Azacualpa where as many as 350 bodies have already been exhumed
Nothing is sacred in the path of gold miners in northwestern Honduras – not even the dead.
Why Ghana's Clam Farmers Are Digging GPS
Samuel-Richard Bogobley is wearing a bright orange life vest and leaning precariously over the edge of a fishing canoe on the Volta River estuary, a gorgeous wildlife refuge where Ghana's biggest river meets the Gulf of Guinea.
He's looking for a bamboo rod poking a couple feet above the surface. When he finds it, he holds out a computer tablet and taps the screen. Then he motions for the captain to move the boat forward as he scans the water for the next rod.