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Brazilian photographer fights to protect remote tribe's rights
By Sophie Davies
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar started working with Yanomami people in the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s, most of them did not know what a camera was.
Andujar spent most of that decade and more in northern Brazil photographing the Yanomami, one of Latin America's most remote indigenous tribes.
Southern Africa: In Southern Africa, Small Farmers Fight for Recognition
Uganda: "Tilting land laws: Minister Amongi’s poisoned chalice"
By: Norbert Mao
Date: August 14th 2016
Source: Daily Monitor
OPINION
The long term effect of this pivotal legal amendment will be underdevelopment, not development.
Once again the contentious issue of compulsory land acquisitions is back on our agenda.
Gaps in Land Policy Could Stall Uganda Pipeline
By: Lizabeth Paulat
Date: April 27th 2016
Source: Voice of America News
KAMPALA, UGANDA—Uganda has just finalized a deal to build a pipeline to Tanzania’s Tanga port, a deal that brings the country a step closer to exploiting its vast oil reserves. But gaps in land governance law could stand in the way.
Anhui tests land reform in wake of plenum vow on rural property rights
In wake of party plenum, which promised to foster trading of rural land, Anhui announces it will let some farmers sell the land they live on.
Anhui has become the first province to unveil a comprehensive plan to test land reform after Communist Party leaders announced following a key meeting that farmers would be granted more property rights.
India: 2,000 acres of assigned lands grabbed: Report
By: Naresh Sankepally
Date: August 26th 2016
Source: The Hans India
Hyderabad: In an explosive finding the Task Force Committee constituted by the State Government, which probed encroachment of lands, has concluded that thousands of acres of land in and around Hyderabad have been encroached upon with the tacit connivance of certain bigwigs.
Water-poor Saudi Arabia moves farming venture to drought-stricken California
By: Matt Weiser
Date: May 6th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Almarai, the largest dairy business in Saudi Arabia, has purchased land in California to grow alfalfa for its cattle – and it’s rubbing some people the wrong way
Brazilian former slave community fights for land
The botanical garden poised to swallow a Brazilian favela
By: Angela Almeida and John Surico
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Inside Rio de Janeiro's Horto favela, half-paved roads connect scattered homes, as monkeys comb through the trees above, and water streams through aqueducts, built by slaves centuries before.
Land Grabbing Illustrated - Mexico - José Ernesto Vazquez Chanico
In the Sierra Norte mountain range, 300 km from Mexico, the indigenous Náhuat and Totanac peoples are facing a new threat. The mining industry, with its hydroelectric power stations and other accompanying infrastructure, is endangering this region’s lush nature and the future of these resident indigenous communities and their ancient traditions.
