By: Nicky Milne
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BUKALEBA FOREST RESERVE, Uganda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deep within a pine and eucalyptus forest on the shores of Lake Victoria in southern Uganda, a parcel of land is pitting a Norwegian timber company against
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: December 01, 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Land distribution in Latin America is the most unequal in the world where only one percent of the farms and estates control more than half of the region's productive land,
By: Nyein Nyein
Date: August 3rd 2016
Source: The Irrawaddy
RANGOON — Land confiscation and rights abuses linked to the continued militarization of ethnic minority regions in southeastern of Burma has had particularly adverse impacts on women, ethnic Karen human rights advocates said at a press
By: Eleven
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: Eleven Myanmar
Around 200 farmers whose land was seized by private companies in 2009 held a press conference in Taungoo, Bago Region, on September 27, where they were accompanied by the leadership of the No 2 Brigade of the Karen National Union.
By:Sophie Mbugua
Date: 8 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
WITU, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Too poor to buy land where they grew up on Kenya's palm-fringed southern coast, Sylvester Jefua and his wife migrated 300 kms northwards to Witu Forest, where they felled seven
By: Siva G|
Date: August 11th 2016
Source: Times of India
VISAKHAPATNAM: Police bosses are busy chalking out various plans and proposals to address the litigation cases pertaining to land and land grabbing at Madhurawada and other areas. According to sources, the police department's previous
By: Moniroth Morm
Date: January 5th 2017
Source: Radio Free Asia
Cambodia’s environmental minister claimed this week that problems stemming from the country’s economic land concessions were solved, a notion that was called into question by a civil society organization that monitors land issues in
By: Jack Davies
Date: August 15th 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
Smallholder farmers have a crucial role to play in tempering the growing pains of Cambodia’s transition to an industrialised economy, but unless something is done, they will face a land shortage in the coming years, according to the
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
By: Siraje Lubwama
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Observer
Capt Gertrude Njuba, the head of the State House Land department, wants the proposed amendments to the Land Act to include strict provisions that make it extremely difficult for courts of law and land agents to aid land
Press release by War on Want
Date: November 2nd 2016
Source: War on Want