Why Land Rights Matter - Kofi Annan
In 15 seconds, Kofi Annan captures the importance of land rights in lifting the world's poor out of poverty.
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How can we ensure the race for clean energy doesn’t leave the world’s poorest citizens behind?
By: Meg Wilcox
Date: April 4th 2016
Source: Ensia.com
Date: April 4th 2016
Source: Ensia.com
As in other places around the world, Mexico’s wind boom runs the risk of bypassing the poor, which is why we need new global standards.
Poverty, child marriage, violence decline when women own land: World Bank
Date: March 13th 2016
Source: DNA India
Can land rights for women drive down child marriage and domestic violence?
"Yes and more", says an international group of land and property rights specialists who are due in Washington this week to discuss how improved land management can reduce global poverty and foster development.
Latin America Can Slash Poverty with Property Rights
By: Moisés Rendón
Date: March 13th 2016
Source: Panam Post
Respect for Private Property Marks the Difference between Poverty and Prosperity
In 1763, immigrants to the North American colonies had more secure property rights than a native-born Venezuelan does in the 21st century.
Spring Module 2016 Transformações Agrárias em África
Publicado a 09/02/2016 às 16:45 por Ana Teresa Vaz
Este conjunto de seminários tem como objectivo apresentar as recentes reconfigurações da divisão internacional da produção alimentar e de comodities, as formas de penetração do capital nos países em desenvolvimento e os processos de resistência/integração dos sistemas de produção locais, em particular dos camponeses, bem como os conflitos políticos e sociais associados.
Thailand: Locals oppose land allocation to wealthy people
By: Boonnum Kerdkaew
Date: March 10th 2016
Source: Bangkok Post
UTTARADIT - Residents of two communities say land reform authorities plan to distribute land at Bueng Kalo marsh to wealthy people and relatives of politicians.
Mozambique's Movement to End Land Grabs
By: Anabel Lemos
Date: March 2nd 2016
Source: Truth Out
This article was drawn from an interview with Anabela Lemos, and conducted, edited and condensed by Simone Adler.
Anabela Lemos is cofounder, campaign coordinator and board member of Justiça Ambiental, the Mozambique branch of Friends of the Earth.
FAO assists Iran on tenure of land, fisheries, forestry
By: PT/PR
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: Mehr News Agency
TEHRAN, Feb. 22 (MNA) – FAO has conducted a three-day technical workshop (21-23 February 2016) in Tehran focusing on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries, forestry and cross-cutting issues in the country aimed at enhancing national food security.
Pakistan: The economics of land reform
By: Danish Khan
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: The International News
Due to the colonial history of Pakistan, land distribution is highly skewed in favor of political and social elites. According to estimates, four percent of the wealthiest rural landowners own more than fifty percent of all cultivated land in Pakistan. Moreover, fifty percent of the rural families are landless and this number is continuously on the rise.
Zika fuelled by rapid urbanization, poor conditions in Latam’s slums – experts
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: February 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation / Euronews
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The mosquito-borne Zika virus spreading through the Americas, linked to severe birth defects in Brazil, will not be controlled over the long-term unless governments improve poor living conditions in the region’s sprawling slums, experts say.
Clouds Gather Over Bolivia’s Change Process as US Intervenes
By: W. T. WHITNEY
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: Counterpunch
Progressive political movements in Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil have recently encountered reverses. Bolivian President Evo Morales is his country’s longest serving president and first indigenous one. Now his 10 – year old socialist and anti-imperialist government faces a hurdle.