A embaixada dos EUA em Angola está a desafiar os estudantes angolanos, com diploma de licenciatura, a inscreverem-se no Programa de Bolsas de Estudo Fulbright, que anualmente oferece a mais de 1.800 cidadãos estrangeiros a possibilidade de estudarem nos EUA a custo zero.

De acordo com a mensagem, as vagas existentes referem-se ao ano lectivo 2018/19 e o prazo limite para submissão de candidaturas termina a 14 de Abril de 2017.

Date: 4 February 2017

Source: Radio Mundo Real

The main conflicts in Paraguay are related to land and the territory, and peasant women are at the forefront of evictions, said Alicia Amarilla, leader of the National Coordination of Rural and Indigenous Women (CONAMURI), member of CLOC – Vía Campesina.

By: R. Avadhani

Date: 30 January 2017

Source: The Hindu 

Dispossessed by the proposed Mallannasagar project, owner of half an acre land loses confidence and is pushed to take the extreme step

The majority of small-scale farmers have no legal access to water

By: Srinivasa Rao Apparasu 

Date: 7 January 2017

Source: Hindustantimes

Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is having sleepless nights, and the reason is a young woman advocate bent on ensuring justice for farmers “wronged” by the state government.

By: Mzingaye Brilliant Xaba and Monty J. Roodt

Date: January 4th 2017

Source: R News

South Africa’s land reform programme has suffered many failures and its beneficiaries have in many cases seen little or no improvements to their livelihoods.

Date: 3 January 2017

Source: Telesur

A land conflict continues to brew after some 200 campesino families were evicted from the Guahory community in September.

By: Touch Sokha and Ananth Baliga

Date: December 23rd 2016

Source: Phnom Penh Post

By: Francis Mugerwa

Date: December 21st 2016

Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor

Hoima — Fifty three families which were evicted from land to pave way for the construction of an oil waste treatment plant by a US firm in August 2014, have finally reached an understanding with the landlord to restore them on the land.

The 53 are part of the 250 families that were evicted from Rwamutonga village, Bugambe Sub-county in Hoima District and are living in an internally displaced peoples camp.

By: Beverly L Peters

Date: December 21st 2016

Source: Dispatch Live

Almost 40 years after independence, land reform remains at the heart of Zimbabwe’s political and economic challenges. But perhaps more than any other issue in Zimbabwe, it has historically been met with inertia from government and the international community.

By: Frinston Lim

Date: December 19th 2016

Source: Inquirer.net

TAGUM CITY – The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) on Monday reinstated the ownership of the 145-hectare land to the 159 farmers under the Madaum Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Association Inc. (Marbai) in Barangay Madaum here.

The farmers were locked in a dispute with banana firm Lapanday Foods Corp. (LFC).