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South Africa: Cape Town Launches its biggest housing project
Cape Town — The City of Cape Town on Thursday launched its biggest housing project to date - the On The Vlei (Market Housing) & New Horizons (GAP Housing) in Pelican Park. A total of 3 200 houses will be built for different income groups by Power Construction (Pty) Ltd on the 80 ha site. The project will help the province make a dent in its housing waiting list, which Western Cape Premier Helen Zille said was 500 000-strong.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201210120952.html
Simulating sustainability: Stanford computer model sheds light on how modern interventions can affect tropical forests and indigenous peoples
By: Bethany Augliere
Date: March 11th 2016
Source: Stanford News
A computer simulation shows that carefully designing government interactions with rural indigenous people is critical for protecting the sustainability of people, wildlife and the land.
India nearly doubles budget for digitisation of land records
By: Rina Chandran
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India will nearly double the budget and extend the deadline for a programme to digitise land records as states struggle to survey land and property, large chunks of which have not been mapped in a century, a senior official said.
Open Government Data on land
December 1, 2012
Of the five pilot countries of the Land Observatory, two are members of the growing, global Open Government Partnership (OGP): Peru and Tanzania. The OGP sets targets for member government in terms of openness, and convenes events and debate around openness.
Bad governance behind Pakistan’s massive deforestation: SCOPE
By: PPI
Date: March 20th 2016
Source: Pakistan Today
Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment’s (SCOPE) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the country’s prominent environmentalist, Tanveer Arif, said on Sunday that bad governance was behind Pakistan’s massive deforestation was colossal loss to green economy.
Vietnam Jails an Activist as Hanoi Grabs More Land
Date: 20 September 2016
Source: RFA
A court in Hanoi sentenced a land rights activist to nearly two years in prison on Tuesday for her role in protesting government-sanctioned evictions that are being used to clear the way for commercial real estate developments in Vietnam.
Canada has nothing to gain, much to lose by ignoring land rights of indigenous peoples
"Community hearings into the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline wrap up this week in Vancouver. As an international human rights organization with strong roots in communities across Canada, Amnesty International wanted to be part of this process to emphasize that whatever the mandate of this specific review, all decisions affecting the lands of indigenous peoples must uphold domestic and international protections for their rights.
Thailand: Protest over Mineral Bill that ‘kills local communities’ rights’
By: Pratch Rujivanarom & Prapasri Ostanon
Date: March 29th 2016
Source: The Nation
ACTIVISTS have warned that the proposed Mineral Bill would severely violate human rights by allowing mining firms to drive people off their lands and give the state absolute power to manage mineral resources.
Ahead of the peace vote, Colombia's displaced slum dwellers dream of home
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: September 27th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
ALTOS DE FLORIDA, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The ramshackle community of Altos de Florida and others slums dotted across the windswept hills on the outskirts of Bogota stretch to the horizon.
Open Access to Weather Data for International Development
Farming communities in Africa and South Asia are becoming increasingly vulnerable to shock as the effects of climate change become a reality. This increased vulnerability, however, comes at a time when improved technology makes critical information more accessible than ever before.
Ghana: Large scale land acquisition to be modernized
By: Hannah Awadzi, GNA
Date: April 6th 2016
Source: News Ghana
Stakeholders in land administration, on Wednesday discussed details of a project that aims at ensuring socially responsible land-based investments.
The Responsible Investments in Property and Land (RIPL) project seeks to develop country specific guidelines for responsible large scale land acquisitions and investments.
