News on Land

By: Maureen Odunga

Date: September 28th 2016

Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily

Title deeds for plots number 213 and 217 at Kinyerezi- Sokoni in Dar es Salaam's Ilala District have been revoked.

Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development Minister William Lukuvi has revoked the titles of the plots, which were earlier used as a cemetery and later maliciously transferred to Nditonda Benno Chukilizo and Pascal Kyomya Kazungu.

The South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE) is a regional network that brings together and strengthens South Asian researchers and institutions interested in the in

Via Maliasili Inititiaves

African organizations working to improve natural resource management have made great gains, but face serious challenges that limit their efforts to grow and sustain their impact. This short video provides an overview of the challenges they face and provides recommendations for addressing these issues.

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By: Special Correspondent

Date: October 10th 2016

Source: The Hindu

Swabhimani Samavesha seeks abolition of ‘pankti bheda’ in Udupi Mutts

Social activist and ‘Chalo Una’ organiser Jignesh Mevani on Sunday said that the ‘Swabhimani Sangharsha Samavesha’ should become the voice of the oppressed and herald a new era in ensuring social justice.

Joint Sumernet-CDKN research call on climate and development to teams of Southeast Asia country researchers studying on two themes: (i) Energy, urbanization & climate compatible development and

Forced evictions of ordinary Zambians from their land have become rampant to pave way for development. Rights activists want to intervene and protect local people from land grabbers.

Land grabbing is on the increase

By: Sulok Tawie

Date: October 25th 2016

Source: The Malay Mail Online

KUCHING, Oct 25 — Tan Sri Adenan Satem can prevent more deaths by establishing a Land Rights Commission to deal with disputes between natives and plantation companies, Sarawak PKR chairman Baru Bian said today.

Organizational profile

The Land Portal foundation is a non-profit organization headquartered in Groningen, the Netherlands.

Launched in March 2011 as a global hub for access land information the Land Portal allows for the collection, sourcing, and searching of otherwise fragmented and inaccessible data and information on land governance and land use from diverse sources, produced by governments, academia, international organizations, indigenous peoples and NGOs. The Land Portal brings together content from over 70 partner organisations.

By: Barbara Fraser

Date: 10 November 2016

Source: Cifor

 

The success of measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) systems lies not only in their technical design, but also in their social and economic implications

Monitoring deforestation so countries can track their greenhouse gas emission targets might seem like a technical matter of satellite images and data.

New York Times
By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
Published: May 26, 2011

When the Chinese came looking for more soybeans here in Uruacu last year, they inquired about buying land — lots of it. Officials in this farming area would not sell the hundreds of thousands of acres needed. Undeterred, the Chinese pursued a different strategy: providing credit to farmers and potentially tripling the soybeans grown here to feed chickens and hogs back in China. Click here for full article.

Dar es Salaam — Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa has told regional and district commissioners to address land conflicts in their areas.

The PM issued the directive yesterday in Lindi when he was speaking to the region's authorities on his arrival in Ruangwa.

"Land is a property of the government, but areas which are being used for various activities of development should not be used as a source of conflicts among the people we lead," he said.