The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development and the Mekong Land Research Forum will run a week-long intensive summer school on land research in the Mekong Region. The purpose of the summer school is to equip early-career academic and advocacy-oriented researchers with key concepts, access to existing research outputs, and knowledge of current land issues across the region in order to strengthen individual and networked research that is geared towards secure access to land amongst the region’s rural and urban poor.

Pastoralism is the main production system practised by communities who live in range lands and dry lands which are usually arid or semi-arid. But pastoral communities are facing increasing pressure on their land.

Date: September 3rd 2016
Source: The News Pakistan

Women in parts of conflict-hit central and eastern India are more vulnerable to violence and eviction from their land because a decades-long insurgency has made it harder for them to claim equal land rights, according to a new study.

By: Juliana Nnoko-Mewanu

Date: August 17th 2016

Source: Human Rights Watch

Enact Proposed Law to Protect Rural Communities

By: Jennifer Duncan and Jaron Vogelsang

Date: August 10th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Civil society groups say failure to pass land reform could plunge the country into violence

By: Sally Andrews

Date: March 22nd 2016

Source: The Diplomat

97 percent of land in Papua New Guinea is held under customary title, leading to sky-high prices for the remaining 3 percent.

Via Business World Online

August 18, 2015 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES

Posted on August 17, 2015 09:34:00 PM

By Tzili Mor, Director of the Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights

Women’s rights and customary wrongs

SEATTLE -- One of the greatest challenges facing women in much of the world is the gap between their legal rights and their ability as individuals to claim them.