By: Chetan R, Bangalore Mirror Bureau
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: Bangalore Mirror
In a curious case, a routine hearing at the state information commission on denial of information exposed a 20-acre land grabbing case in the real estate hotbed of Doddaballapur.
By: Devex Editor
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Devex.com
This week in Washington, D.C., the World Bank is hosting its Annual Conference on Land and Poverty, a professional meeting that has swelled considerably in the past five years. Attendee numbers have expanded to a downright packed 1,200
Date: April 26th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Addis Fortune
The German government's Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa (NELGA) programme has granted African students first phase scholarships in land governance in a bid to improve land administration and tenure systems on the
By: Malawi News Agency
Date: August 1st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Malawi News Agency
The recent budget sitting passed land administration related bills which have raised controversy and at times outright misinformation. The Minister of Information, Communications Technology and Civic Education
By: Anthony King
Date: September 8th 2016
Source: UC San Diego News Center
The 17th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty took place from 14 to 18 March 2016 in Washington DC. Over 1,400 government officials, practitioners, academics and civil society representatives gathered at World Bank headquarters, as well as some representatives of the private sector.
The World Bank is pleased to invite abstract submissions for the 17th Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty from March 14 to 18, 2016 in Washington D.C. under the theme of
Scaling up Responsible Land Governance: Examples, policies, and impact
By: Online reporter
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Bangkok Post
About 800,000 landless people are awaiting promised land allotments from government agencies, according to figures compiled by the Agricultural Land Reform Office (Alro) of the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry.
By: Our Correspondent
Date: March 29th 2016
Source: Express Tribune
PESHAWAR: As the government admitted its helplessness in the house in failing to stop land grabbers, opposition members relentlessly questioned “why”, during the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly session on Monday.
By: Yi Ming and Lü Bingbing
Date: May 3rd 2016
Source: Women of China
Over 94 percent of rural villages or communities in east China's Shandong Province have included women's names on rural land rights certificates, to safeguard their legal rights and interests, according to a Shandong Women's
By: Rina Chandran
Date: August 11th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gyalgen Lama was a third-generation tenant farmer in Nepal's Sindhupalchok district, eking out a living from growing millet on a small piece of land that he could only dream of
By Zabihullah Noori
Date: October 11th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
In conservative Afghanistan, properties usually registered to men but there are plans to issue joint ownership rights to married couples