News on Land

By: Fabiana Frayssinet

Date: October 13th 2016

Source: IPS News

EL PATO, Argentina, Oct 13 2016 (IPS) - Her seven children have grown up, but she now takes care of a young grandson while working in her organic vegetable garden in El Pato, south of the city of Buenos Aires. Olga Campos wants for them what she wasn’t able to achieve: an education to forge a different future.

In April 2014 UN-Habitat launched the Global Urban Lectures – lecture packages focused on subjects related to cities and urbanization.

The Government of Peru has taken a historic step for indigenous peoples by becoming the first country in Latin America and the Caribbean to pass a law requiring that indigenous peoples be consulted on and give their consent to any legislative or administrative measures that directly affect them.

By: Nandini Velho, Aparajita Datta, Anirban Datta-Roy, Mihin Dollo

Date: November 9th 2016

Source: The Arunachal Times

The recent articles by Umesh Srinivasan and Idar Nyori have brought the promise and pitfalls of oil palm expansion in Arunachal Pradesh to the fore.

By: Francis Mugerwa, George Muzoora & Ronald Tumusiime

Date: January 31st 2016

Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor

Gomba — President Museveni has promised to introduce an amendment to the land law to improve land tenure security and curb the tide in illegal evictions that the current law has failed to stop.

[From The Hindu] Not willing to rely on the charitable impulses of family and society for support, the low-income single women in the country – comprising the most vulnerable 10 per cent of the entire female population in the country – are seeking public funds to enable them to live with di

By: Andrew Essein

Date: November 14th 2016

Source: Leadership Nigeria

Date: February 7th 2016

Source: Rainforest Rescue

Cambodia exports sugar worth millions to Europe under an EU trade deal. The initiative, which was intended to fight poverty in developing countries, has led the sugar industry to grab the land of 12,000 Cambodian small farmers and their families, leaving them destitute. Tell the EU to stop subsidizing human rights violations NOW.

The Guidelines were endorsed by the 38th (Special) Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) on 11 May 2012.  The Voluntary Guidelines are available in: I العربية I 中文  l English I français I русский l español

At a recent meeting in Panama City representatives from more than 110 Transparency International chapters and members unanimously adopted a resolution calling for corruption-free land governance worldwide.

Around the world, one in five people report that they have paid a bribe for land services; but in Africa, every second client of land administration services is affected.

By: Arya Dipa

Date: February 16th 2016

Source:  Jakarta Post

An architect by training, 26-year-old Ronaldiaz Hartantyo has decided to make a living as a farmer, a career choice most Indonesian people of his age would never think of.

The 50 000-plus inhabitants of Chicala, a waterfront slum in Luanda, Angola, are being relocated to new homes outside the city.