15 March 2017
Over the past decade, international investments in land have come to the forefront of public debate. Some argue that investments in land, including by foreign entities, is a critical component of achieving food security. Others argue that large scale land acquisitions, or what some refer to as ‘
8 March 2017
To celebrate International Women’s Day, Mokoro is pleased to share news of the successful completion of fieldwork in the fourth of six phases of our WOLTS pilot study in both Mongolia and Tanzania. WOLTS is a major multi-country strategic action-oriented research project in support of the land
16 February 2017
A embaixada dos EUA em Angola está a desafiar os estudantes angolanos, com diploma de licenciatura, a inscreverem-se no Programa de Bolsas de Estudo Fulbright, que anualmente oferece a mais de 1.800 cidadãos estrangeiros a possibilidade de estudarem nos EUA a custo zero.
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16 February 2017
Brazil says it is pushing ahead with plans to change the law and let foreigners buy farmland, in a move widely backed by investors and opposed by land rights campaigners.
"We will announce the changes in the next 30 days," Brazilian Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles said on Wednesday night in
8 February 2017
The pacific island of Papua New Guinea is one of the world's most resource rich countries, hosting nearly 7 percent of global biodiversity and important reserves of gold, copper and hydrocarbons.
20 January 2017
Date: 18 January 2017
Source: Telesur
A peaceful demonstrator was shot dead during a protest in an Indigenous community.
An activist was killed Tuesday in Guatemala during a clash between protesters and police at a demonstration led by Indigenous community members who oppose the construction
18 April 2016
The bulk of Cambodia’s economic land concessions (ELCs) – at the centre of numerous land disputes and human rights concerns over the past two decades – generated just $5 million for state coffers last year, with critics attributing the meagre returns to a lack of collection capacity as well as
By: Kann Vicheika
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: VOA Khmer
The protesters from six villages in Koh Kong’s Sre Ambel and Botum Sakor districts claim that Koh Kong Sugar and Koh Kong Plantation encroached on their farmland.
Democratic Republic of Congo to disclose large-scale agricultural contracts
In partnership with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, documents will be available via a new online repository
RANGOON – Around 100 Sittwe residents called for the resignation of the Arakan State parliament speaker in a Tuesday protest over unresolved cases of land confiscation, rally participants told The Irrawaddy.
The land grabs in question date as far back as the early 1990s, when Burma was governed
By: Karin Goodwin
Date: August 14th 2016
Source: Herald Scotland
THE SCOTTISH Government must stop giving “carte blanche” to rich industrialists who are buying up vast swathes of Scotland’s countryside and instead bring about more radical land reform that benefits local communities, according to
By: Esther Yu Hsi Lee
Date: October 10th 2016
Source: ThinkProgress
About 60 percent of the country’s population is comprised of indigenous people.