By: Prof Marjorie Mbilinyi
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
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Just after nine o’clock on a Tuesday morning in June, an environmental activist named Bill Kayong was shot and killed while sitting in his pickup truck, waiting for a traffic light to change in the Malaysian city of Miri, on the island of Borneo. Kayong had been working with a group of villagers
The winners have been identified of a £3.65m Challenge Fund funded through DFID’s LEGEND (Land-Enhancing Governance for Economic Development) umbrella programme, to drive innovative and responsible investments in land, in particular agriculture. The fund, managed by KPMG LLP, seeks to improve the
By: Moniroth Morm
Date: January 5th 2017
Source: Radio Free Asia
Cambodia’s environmental minister claimed this week that problems stemming from the country’s economic land concessions were solved, a notion that was called into question by a civil society organization that monitors land issues in
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Sierra Leone News: NSAs demand 25 years land lease to Multinational Investments
As way to control land use and land lease to multinational foreign companies and ensuring women’s rights to own land, a group of Non-State Actors (NSAs) led by Action Aid have called on government to limit
Date: October 12th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Observer
A research report released in Monrovia over the weekend by Natural Resources Women's Platform (NRWP), the Alliance for Rural Democracy (ARD), and Green Advocates International (GAI) with support from US based Rights and Resources
By: JTA
Date: January 19th 2016
Source: Forward.com
JERUSALEM — Human Rights Watch said businesses should stop operating in West Bank Jewish settlements because they violate Palestinian rights.
PROCASUR and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) are pleased to announce a Learning Route initiative on inclusive agricultural value chains which will take place in West and Central Africa, as part of the "Strengthening capacities and tools for scaling and disseminating
By: Tom Burgis
Date: March 1st 2016
Source: Financial Times
Across the globe, investors are betting billions on land. Tom Burgis reports from Ethiopia, where a tycoon has planted a vast rice farm in soils tainted by years of conflict.
1, THE HARVEST
By: Timothy A. Wise, Food Tank
Date: November 1st 2016
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Source: European Commission
Date: May 27th, 2016
High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini was in Colombia this week, where she announced new EU support for conflict affected regions, green growth and land rights together with a series of immediate actions to support Colombia.
By: Kizza Besigye
Date: November 8th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
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