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Press release: As the Jan Satyagraha entered Agra district in Uttar Pradesh, a ten point agreement proposed by the government is under discussion
Asamblea Nacional aprueba la Ley de Tierras
La Asamblea Nacional se allanó a 16 de las 18 objeciones presentadas por el Ejecutivo a la Ley de Tierras Rurales y Territorios Ancestrales, aprobada en enero. Esta ahora podrá entrar al Registro Oficial para ser promulgada.
La norma busca garantizar la redistribución de la tierra productiva para los campesinos sin tierra, con poca tierra o que tienen de mala calidad. Para ello, se crea el Fondo Nacional de Tierras y se establece créditos e incentivos para la producción.
Kenya: Policy to Regulate Land Use Being Developed, Kaimenyi Says
By: Ouma Wanzala
Date: March 18th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
The government is in the process of developing a national land use policy to regulate the planning and use of land for sustainable development, Land Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi has said.
Prof Kaimenyi observed that sound land governance is fundamental in achieving sustainable development and poverty reduction.
Release dates for the Observatory
January 28, 2013
The Land Observatory will make publicly available a first version of the tool for the beginning of February.
Bangladesh: "Protect ethnic minorities from land grabbers"
By: Our Correspondent
Date: March 29th 2016
Source: Daily Star
Demands human chain in Parbatipur town
The ethnic minority people formed a human chain near Shaheed Minar in Parbatipur upazila town under the district yesterday, urging the government to take initiative to stop torture and repression on them.
International Land Coalition Facility Supports Innovative and High Impact Interventions
The International Land Coalition announces a new initiative called the Facility in Support of Innovative and High Impact Targeted Interventions on the ground (FTI). This facility builds on the experience gained through a previous programme, ILCs Community Empowerment Facility (CEF), ‘which supported 52 small projects led by civil society organizations to apply innovative approaches that help the rural poor gain access to and control over land and other natural resources (for a total amount of USD3.5 million during the 1999-2009 period.
India: Issues of land and landlessness echo in Adivasi hamlets in Kerala as elections draw near
By: TA Ameerudheen
Date: April 6th 2016
Source: Scroll in
Advasis, one of the most marginalised communities in the state, feel successive governments have failed to keep their promises on the redistribution of land.
Kenya: Coast Leaders Retreat to Address Land Problems
FAO recognizes La Via Campesina's crucial role as the major international small food producer's organisation
(Rome, 4 October 2013)
Today, during a meeting between La Via Campesina and FAO's Director general Jose Graziano da Silva an agreement of cooperation was formalized which acknowledged the essential role played by small holder food producers. Their role was recognised as most important in the eradication of world hunger.
Call for Nigerian farmers to unite in battle to save lands
By: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Date: 4 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Agriculture is the largest sector of the Nigerian economy with studies showing 80 percent of the nation's food is produced by small-scale farmers, the majority of whom are women, and loss of land can impact millions of the 175 million population.