Self-declared state wants to shift much of its population to the coast as grazing land fails

It is often said that climate change will hurt the world’s poorest people first. Nowhere is that potentially truer than in Somaliland, an unrecognised state in the Horn of Africa sandwiched between an expanding desert and the Red Sea.

A prolonged drought has killed 70 per cent of the area’s livestock in the past three years, devastating the region’s pastoralist economy and forcing tens of thousands of families to flee their grazing land for urban camps, according to authorities.

By: SAW YAN NAING 

Date: 12 January 2017

Source: The Irrawaddy

More than 1.8 million acres of palm oil plantations in Burma’s southern Tenasserim Division do more harm than good for local Karen villagers, causing land conflict, damaging livelihoods, destroying biodiversity, and polluting the environment, according to a new report.

By: Gregory Scruggs

Date: 15 December 2016

Source: Citiscope

Policymakers will be pushed to recognize the importance of tenure reforms in cities, analysts say. Such processes also can do much to stem rural migration to cities.

By: Nandini Velho, Aparajita Datta, Anirban Datta-Roy, Mihin Dollo

Date: November 9th 2016

Source: The Arunachal Times

The recent articles by Umesh Srinivasan and Idar Nyori have brought the promise and pitfalls of oil palm expansion in Arunachal Pradesh to the fore.

By: Amy Lieberman 

Source: devex

Date: 7 November 2016

 

By: Dan Collyns

Source: The Guardian

Date: 4 November 2016

As Paris climate agreement comes into force, inhabitants of Amazon rainforest demand recognition of key role their communities play in conservation

14 October 2016 – A major global conference, aiming to set a ‘New Urban Agenda,’ which, in the words of the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, will “help us to rethink how we plan, manage and live in cities,” begins this weekend, in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito.

By: Michael Sena Dzansi

Date: October 11th 2016

Source: News Ghana

CARITAS Ghana has stated that though Ghana has adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the new global framework for development, the country faces the risk of failing to attain some of these goals due to the negative impact of land grabbing throughout the country.

By: Special Correspondent

Date: October 10th 2016

Source: The Hindu

Swabhimani Samavesha seeks abolition of ‘pankti bheda’ in Udupi Mutts

Social activist and ‘Chalo Una’ organiser Jignesh Mevani on Sunday said that the ‘Swabhimani Sangharsha Samavesha’ should become the voice of the oppressed and herald a new era in ensuring social justice.

By: Caroline Moser

Date: October 6th 2016

Source:  Next City

On  October 17, the Habitat III conference opens in Quito, Ecuador. Its primary objective is for UN member states to adopt the New Urban Agenda (NUA), reflect on the agreements reached, and elaborate on policy and planning processes for its implementation across the globe.

Date: October 5th 2016

Source: Slow Food

By: Republica

Date: September 29th 2016

Source: My República

KATHMANDU, Sept 29: Experts have said that the private sector has a key role in ushering in well-managed urbanization in the country.