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Tanzania: Councils Directed to Set Funds for 'Own Land Use'
Thel government has ordered district councils countrywide to set aside some funds each fiscal year in order to finance "land use plans' resolutions" under them, especially in villages which are rapidly becoming urban areas. The Minister for Land, Housing and Human Settlement Development, Mr William Lukuvi, said the move would keep off sporadic land conflicts rocking the country.
Land-Rights Group Landesa Wins $2-Million Hilton Humanitarian Prize
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation announced that its distinguished panel of independent international jurors has selected Landesa, a Seattle-based land rights organization, as the recipient of the largest humanitarian prize in the world – the Hilton Humanitarian Prize. As the 2015 Hilton Humanitarian Prize recipient, Landesa will receive $2 million in unrestricted funding and join the Hilton Prize Coalition, which was established in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Hilton Prize and is comprised of all 20 Hilton Prize Laureate organizations.
Cambodia’s Land Compensation Issues Persist
Date: 11 January 2017
Source: Radio Free Asia
About 70 people from three different communities in Cambodia staged a demonstration in front of Banteay Meanchey provincial hall on Wednesday in an effort to prod the government into action over unsettled land claims.
Private sector investments in Nigeria’s agriculture sector
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has disclosed that private sector investments in the country’s agric sector has reached about N760 billion in the last two years.
Former Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Sonny Echono, an architect, disclosed this in Abuja at a seminar organised by the ministry and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to harness public and private sector stakeholders’ support for the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN) in Nigeria.
International: G20-Agriculture - Hundreds Of Organizations Say STOP Farm Land Grabbing!
Hundreds of civil society organisations, including farmers' movements, women's groups and non-governmental organisations, will launch a global appeal against farmland grabbing during the G20 meeting on Agriculture in Paris on June 22 and 23.
Over 500 organizations from around the world (1) have joined the "Dakar Appeal Against Land Grabbing" (2) that was originally drawn up at the World Social Forum in Dakar last February and launched by, among others, la Via Campesina and FIAN International.
Landesa Accepting Applications for Women’s Land Rights Visiting Professionals Program
The Landesa Center for Women’s Land Rights and our partner Resource Equity are pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for our Women’s Land Rights Visiting Professionals Program.
Lack of Land, Market Features At Gender Festival - By Katare Mbashiru
The "State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture" is out!
The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW) has been released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on 28 November 2011.
Nepal: Land For Peace
By: Rubeena Mahato
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: Nepali Times
Gains of Nepal’s land rights movement has come not from bloodshed and war, but from a non-violent social movement.
In the larger scheme of things, the petty games that politicians play to keep themselves relevant should not matter much. They have done it year after year, decade after decade — it’s the same plot and even the characters are the same.