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Malaysia: Committee formed to look into land rights of indigenous people
By: Bernama
Date: April 8th 2016
Source: Borneo Post Online
PUTRAJAYA: A working committee has been set up to ensure the 50 recommendations by the Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) after an inquiry process into the land rights of indigenous peoples of Malaysia are carried out within the recommended time frame.
FAO Survey: 'Stocktaking Landscape Initiatives Work by FAO and Partners'
Ethiopia: "Political will and skills development essential for good land governance"
By: Hasabe
Date: April 21st 2016
Source: New Business Ethiopia
The 2030 Agenda (Sustainable Development Goals) cannot be achieved without the introduction of modern land management systems accompanied by good land governance, Ethiopian President said.
Rwanda's regulatory environment in support of green urban development
By: Minnie Karanja
Date: May 5th 2016
Source: The New Times
According to the United Nations, the proportion of the world’s population living in urban areas is expected to reach 66 per cent by 2050. Best Practices have shown that the global “urbanization”, when properly managed, may drive the economic growth of a country. It is in this regard that the Government of Rwanda has decided to include measures related to urbanization as part of its policies and strategies.
Millions at risk of food insecurity in Central African Republic
WWF partners with logging company destroying "Pygmy” land
Date: May 25th 2016
Source: Survival
A French logging company and official partner of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is deforesting a huge area of rainforest in southeast Cameroon without the consent of local Baka “Pygmies” who have lived there and managed the land for generations, Survival International has learned.
Land rights, not land grabs, can help Africa feed itself
Nothing better sums up Africa's extraordinary mixture of challenges and opportunities than agriculture. On the one hand, Africa is home to one in four of the world's hungry and is the only continent which fails to grow enough food to meet its own needs.
Habitat III stakeholders offer vision of broad partnership for sustainable urbanization
By: Greg Scruggs
Date: June 10th 2016
Source: Citiscope
This week, national governments heard directly from civil society and others on what they’re hoping to see in the New Urban Agenda and beyond.
Farmers getting no answers in 20-year-old military land grab - Myanmar
‘No obstacles’ to state reopening its land restitution programme - South Africa
Gugile Nkwinti. Picture: TREVOR SAMSON
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THE government has been advised by one of South Africa’s foremost legal experts that there are no legal obstacles to reopening its land restitution programme as planned next month, even though questions have been raised about its ability to cover the potential R197bn price tag.
