News on Land

More than luck has changed the fortunes of the slum dwellers, not only in Zimbabwe but also in many other developing countries, where informal settlements do not often feature in the government's growth plans.

By: Magdalena Mis and Isaiah Esipisu

Date: August 22nd 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Around the world, farmers are ageing as the sector fails to attract younger talent who head instead to cities in search of work

ROME/NAIROBI, Aug 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For Kenyan farmer Pauline Wafula, there was never a question that her children would have to get their hands dirty and learn how to grow their own food.

Date: February 18th 2016

Source: TeleSUR

The trade agreement signed earlier in February will have a devastating effect on Indigenous people, the last guardians of our natural world.

The article in 'Counterview' from July 18th relates the interrogations of Rajagopal PV, President and Founder of Ekta Parishad, about the real "success" of the development model of the State of Gujrarat in India. To find out more click on the link below...

By: Ian Allison

Date: August 31st 2016

Source: International Business Times

Blockchain-based Bitland is looking to address the unregistered land issue in West Africa.

By: Brad Thompson

Date: February 29th 2016

Source: The West Australian

Advertising guru Harold Mitchell has hailed changes to WA’s land use laws as a key to unlocking the value and productivity in pastoral leases covering 87 million hectares of the State.

[adapted from UNWomen] 27 September 2012-“Accelerating Progress Toward the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women” is a five-year initiative of the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Food Programme (WFP) to be initially implem

By: Berndatte Christina Munthe

Date: 15 September 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Indonesia's highest Islamic council has issued a fatwa on burning land and forests, a government official said on Wednesday, in an effort to halt the toxic smog that blankets the region each year.

By: Online reporter

Date: March 8th 2016

Source: Bangkok Post

About 800,000 landless people are awaiting promised land allotments from government agencies, according to figures compiled by the Agricultural Land Reform Office (Alro) of the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry.

PWESCR's Leadership Institute in Women's Economic Social and Cultural Rights is an annual leadership development programme for women's rights leaders (men and women) working in organisations from the economic South. The Institute, based on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), is held in two phases each year.

Date: 27 September 2016

Source: National Indigenous Time

There were continuing and relentless attempts to undermine native title in WA’s Kimberley region, a new Oxfam global report pushing for the land rights of Indigenous peoples across the world has found.

The Custodians of our Land, Defenders of our Future report highlights a global land rush forcing millions of Indigenous people from their homelands.

By: Joan Clos

Date: March 14th 2016

Source: Citiscope

It’s time to emphasize implementation, the head of the Habitat III conference says.