News on Land

The World Bank estimates that by 2025 Indonesia will have 68 percent of its population living in cities or urban communities. As such, Indonesia’s cities are among the fastest growing cities in the world. However, without a unified spatial data system, urban planning is a daunting task while urbanization challenges become harder to predict. The World Bank's City Planning Labs project provides support for the development of a single spatial data infrastructure in the cities of Indonesia.

The FAO’s recent announcement that global food prices reached a record high in December 2010 has once again brought food security to the

By Soni Daniel,  Northern Region Editor

Date: October 9th 2016

Source: Vanguard

Senate gives Army, FCT Minister ultimatum to sort out Abuja land grab

 

In the face of displacement due to large-scale development projects, can innovative legal solutions be used to protect smallholders' land rights?

Land tenure is a complex and sensitive issue throughout West Africa and nowhere more so than in Niger.

The current issue of the International Journal of the Commons includes a special feature celebrating the 20th anniversary of Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons.

By: Matheus Hamutenya
Date: October 24th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / New Era

After their land resettlement applications failed for about two decades, a group of fed-up farmers on Thursday moved onto farm Dickbusch - owned by government - with their livestock.

Via FIAN International

AUGUST 11TH 2015​ - R. Herre

As levels of malnourishment appear to worsen and land grabbing increases, the land rights expert, Archie Mulunda, will meet the European Commission to discuss the impact of development policies on the Zambian population.

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An interesting post from IFAD’s social reporting blog reports on a meeting this month between the Directors Ge

By: Chino S. Leyco
Date: November 8th 2016
Source: Manila Bulletin

Davao City – President Rodrigo R. Duterte will come up with a “modified” executive order governing the moratorium on land conversion, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) announced yesterday.

Forested landscapes worldwide are increasingly integrated in global processes of trade, market development, resource exploitation and climate change. Site-based or community level approaches can no longer cope with these issues which exceed the local sphere of influence. Although landscapes are usually considered to be appropriate levels to negotiate land use options, they are rarely recognised as units of political- administrative decision making, hence do not have any formal place in decentralised structures of states.