News on Land

By: Rashida Ntotela
Date: January 22nd 2016
Source: Cii News

It seems the African National Congress (ANC) has a long way to go in redressing the historical injustice of land dispossession, denial of access to land and forced removals in South Africa.

More than 60 participants from over a dozen countries participated in the 2011 Asia Land Forum, organized by ILC Asia in collaboration with Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian  Reform and Rural Development, Community Self-Reliance Centre, and the Government of Nepal, on 20 to 21 October 2011 at the Soaltee Crowne Plaza in Kathmandu, Nepal.  This year’s focus was inspired by the 2011 SAARC Summit theme, Building Bridges, leading to the title, Preserving our Gains in the Struggle for Land: Building Bridges in Addressing Commercialization, Climate Change and Food Security.

By: Greg Scruggs

Date: September 20th 2016

Source: Citiscope

The Habitat III strategy ‘doesn’t go far enough on financing’, one observer noted at an event on the eve of the U.N. General Assembly.

A new LEGEND publication explores the aims and performance of DFID land programmes, including its work on strengthening tenure security for women.

The LEGEND Knowledge Management team has recently published a Portfolio Overview that looks across 24 DFID land programmes. It looks at how programmes are designed, where they work, what they do and how they have performed. It looks at both the main programmes that work on land governance and those that work on land to achieve a broader set of objectives.

The online discussion “How can women’s land rights be secured?” is now closed - please check back for the proceedings and synthesis, which will be shared soon!

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By: Eliasu Tanko
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: STARRFM Online

A longstanding land dispute which continues to brew raw tensions in the Bole district of the Northern region has threatened the survival of a $3,139,383 poverty alleviation project.

The project, Babator Irrigated Farming Hub, an initiative of the Africa Agriculture Development Company (AgDevCo) a social impact investor and project in Agriculture sector missioned to reduce poverty, hunger, under-nutrition and improve food security.

By: Geoffrey Mohan

Date: February 10th 2016

Source: Los Angeles Times

A proposal by the state’s farm labor watchdog to gain access to fields so it can educate workers about their rights is running into strong opposition from growers, even before it has been written into regulation.

Date: October 7th 2016

Source: NGO News Africa

By: Admin

Date: February 17th 2016

Source: News Ghana

Ghana is in rough spot. Its commodity prices are falling and the country’s last resort which is the agriculture sector is being threatened by the activities of Fulani herdsmen who migrate into the country from the Sahelian region of West Africa.

"Although some detailed exposés of India’s nefarious role in purchasing or leasing agricultural land in other countries — notably in Africa — have been surfacing in the last few years, the full picture of what some critics term a land grab and new form of colonialism has only emerged during the Rio+20 environmental meet in June. The Washington DC-based think tank, the Worldwatch Institute, released a report based on data put out by the Land Matrix project, a consortium of 45 NGOs, which has collated difficult-to-obtain information from investing and recipient countries.

Date: October 24th 2016

Source: Jaimaica Observer

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Opposition spokesperson on land, Senator Sophia Frazer Binns, says the contentious informal settlement at 85 Red Hills Road in St Andrew is another reason to place the issue of land tenure, ownership and rectification on the agenda for discussion once again.