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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.
Learning Route: "Mechanisms and innovative tools to promote inclusive agricultural value chains: experiences of Senegal"
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,
Liberia: Sinoeans Confirm Global Witness Land Grab Report on GVL
By: Edwin G. Genoway, Jr
Date: November 15th 2016
Source: Front Page Africa
Citizens of Kpanyan Statutory District in Sinoe County have given a one-month ultimatum to Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL) to either meet their demands or leave the county.
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.
A lifeline in the dalit battle for land rights
"AHMEDABAD: Navsarjan Trust was a response to one of the worst instances of caste violence in Gujarat. In January 1986, the Rajputs of Golana village in Anand district shot dead four dalits over a land dispute.
Eighteen people were injured and several dalit houses were set on fire. Activist Martin Macwan, who had lost a colleague in that violence, started Navsarjan in 1989 to take up the cause of dalits."
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Women in Honduras and Guatemala defend their communities from land grabbing by agribusiness
Date: December 6, 2016
Source: Land Rights Now
“We live right next to the plantation and the guards are always passing the house. They shout at us, they scare the children, they insult me and threaten that they will shoot me. The children don’t want to go to school any more. They threw tear gas at us once when I was pregnant.”