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8 April 2024
Photo: Dans le pit des options blé, des traders de CME Group célèbrent la cloche de clôture de l'année. 31 décembre 2009, Chicago. UPI/Brian Kersey/Alamy
De grandes manifestations agricoles ont éclaté dans au moins 65 pays au cours de l'année écoulée. De l'Inde au Kenya en passant par la Colombie…
23 March 2024
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L'appel à contributions est ouvert jusqu’au 1er avril 2024.
Depuis quelques années, il est de plus en plus admis qu’il est urgent de transformer les systèmes agroalimentaires afin de les rendre plus durables, plus résistants, plus inclusifs et plus équitables.
Qu'…
9 March 2023
Secure land rights for women and girls are linked to increased women’s leadership and autonomy, enhanced economic opportunities, better social security, safety and dignified societal standing.
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Secure land rights for women and girls are linked to increased women’s leadership and…
28 February 2023
India discovered an enormous deposit of lithium. Guess where.
Main photo: Smoke rises after the Indian Army blew up a land mine during a gunfight between Indian soldiers and suspected militants in the town of Pampore in Jammu and Kashmir on Oct. 10, 2016. Tauseef Mustafa/AFP via Getty Images…
Nationalism without a nation: What being Indian means for residents of merged Bangladesh enclaves ()
22 February 2023
Among the formerly ‘stateless’ residents of the enclave exchange, nationalism thrives despite the state’s failure to provide rights.
Main photo: A resident shows a land ownership document issued by Indian authorities at the Dashiarchhara Indian enclave in June 2004. | Reuters
On October 23, Musa…
13 February 2023
‘Arrest Land Degradation, Restore Ecosystem’, was one of the major discussions at the First G20 Environment and Climate Sustainability Working Group Meeting (ECSWG), held in Bengaluru from February 9 to 11. Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav shared that the G20 nations are committed to work…
27 January 2023
It was mentioned in a joint statement released on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and visiting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi held wide-ranging talks covering bilateral, regional and global issues of mutual interest.
Main photo: Tugboats pull a ship in the Suez Canal…
7 January 2023
Main photo: A motorist navigates his way through a crack on a road in Joshimath, India, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023. Authorities have stopped all construction activity and started shifting hundreds of people panicking after seeing a temple collapse and cracks in over 600 houses due to subsidence of land…
6 December 2022
Nearly 70% of the areas which are open natural ecosystems in India overlap with those which the government calls wastelands.
Grasslands, part of open natural ecosystems, sequester 146 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year and support 500 million livestock and over 20 nomadic tribes in India.
Land-…
28 November 2022
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, an increasing number of Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) are investing in real estate properties in India.
Main photo: The pandemic triggered the aspiration among NRI’s to own a home back in India.
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, an increasing…
23 November 2022
The Land Portal published a new country portfolio for India as part of our Country Insights initiative. The initiative seeks to expand knowledge about how countries govern their land, the challenges they face, and the innovative solutions they find to manage land tenure issues. Each portfolio…
31 October 2022
On July 31, 2015, 51 Bangladeshi enclaves, all of which were located in Cooch Behar district, merged with the Indian mainland
Main photo: Madhya Mashaldanga, a former Bangladeshi enclave that is now an Indian village in Cooch Behar (Main Uddin Chisti)
Over 14,000 persons who had chosen to stay back…