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Documentary ‘Land Grabbing’: exposing the impacts of large-scale agriculture on local communities
By: Chris Lang / REDD Monitor
Date: February 8th 2016
Source: The Ecologist
Agriculture is big business and with the EU pumping money at the sector, the corporate profiteers are holding all the aces, writes Chris Lang. The documentary ‘Land Grabbing’ investigates what happens when well-financed agro-investors take over rural communities' land and water.
Kenya enacts three new land laws
Affordable Housing: India’s challenge Of Disordered Urbanization
By: Manish Kumar
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: India Infoline News Service
About 377 million people from India’s total population of 1.21 billion are urban dwellers. With more than 10 million people migrating to cities and towns every year, the total urban population is expected to reach about 600 million by 2031.
Guatemala: Killing of Human Rights Defender Mr. Enrique Linares
Africa: Farming on the continent alive with potential
By: Mike Cohen and Eric Ombok
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: Business Day Live
JOSEPHINE Mbinya bends from the waist to pluck beans from the black soil on her smallholding south of Nairobi. She throws them in a heap on the side of the field.
The High Court of Chhattisgarh seems to make progress in terms of regulating land acquisitions
The State of Chhattisgarh in India, a tribal state called India's "rice bowl", has been told by its own High Court to regulate the way it is dealing with land acquisitions. To read more click on the link below.
Namibia: Mbambo concerned about deteriorating rangelands
By: New Era Staff Reporter
Date: March 2nd 2016
Source: New Era
Windhoek- Rangeland management is no longer a ‘nice to do’ practice, but should be a command that every farmer abide by, because our rangelands are under immense pressure, says Governor of Kavango East Region Dr Samuel Mbambo.
He made the comment when he acted as keynote speaker at Agra ProVision’s bi-monthly breakfast meeting in Rundu on Friday, held under the theme ‘Rangeland Management – no grass, no bucks’.
Multimedia Cambodian Monk Wins International Human Rights Defenders Award
Women Feeding the World Represent 70% of Hungry People, UN Says
By: Isis Almeida
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Bloomberg Business
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Lower social status mean women get less food in many countries
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Women are responsible for more than 50% of global food output
Women account for 70 percent of the world’s hungry even as they produce more than half of the global food output, the United Nations said.
E-consultation on hunger and food security
An e-consultation is now open for Post-MDG Agenda on Hunger, Food Security and Nutrition. Please see below an invitation from the thematic lead of the consultation (FAO and WFP):
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Dear colleagues,
Failure to pass equality bill betrays Nigerian women, activists say
By: Kieran Guilbert
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women's rights activists condemned the Nigerian Senate on Thursday for rejecting a gender and equality law that pledged to eliminate discrimination in politics, education and employment, protect women's land rights and tackle violence against women.