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Indian Government accused of grabbing land from farmers to build 100 smart cities
By: James Bennett
Date: October 25th 2016
Source: ABC News
It is hot and windy as farmer Parduman Sinh looks out across a salt-encrusted floodplain in India's western state of Gujarat.
The Government has offered Mr Sinh part of the muddy expanse as compensation for his farm to make way for one of India's much touted smart cities.
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USA: Solar debate is about property rights
By: Daily Times Editorial Board
Date: November 9th 2016
Source: DelMarvaNow
OPINION
Agricultural land makes up a substantial and important portion of Maryland's lower Eastern Shore, and the Maryland Farm Bureau is a vital advocacy organization for farmlands, farmers and poultry growers.
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VIDEO: The Commons
Philippines: Farmers decry 'landgrabbing' in Mindanao
By: Angelo Caballero
Date: November 16th 2016
Source: ABS News
DAVAO CITY - Over 600 farmers staged a protest in front of Lapanday Foods Corporation office in Barangay Pampanga to voice out their struggles over land rights Wednesday.
The agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs), who came from different parts of Mindanao want Lapanday to grant them the "government-awarded land" for them to return to farming and earn a living.
Will #COP21 negotiators tackle land rights issues?
By Michael Igoe
Date: 03 December 2015
So far at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, renewable energy initiatives are stealing the headlines. But as negotiators comb through the details of the expected Paris climate agreement, they will confront a range of challenges — and opportunities — to keep carbon in the ground.
Message from the Land Portal Coordination Unit and the ILC Secretariat on the death of Mr Marcellino de Baggis
It is with great sadness that the Land Portal Coordination Unit has heard of the death of Mr Marcellino de Baggis, who filmed and edited for Visiontime the Land Portal promotional video.
His death occurred on Sunday 7 August, 2011. Mr de Baggis was 40 years old and he left behind a wife and a three year old son.
Mr de Baggis worked closely with ILC Secretariat and the Land Portal Coordination Unit to realize the video and he enjoyed very much the work he did for the Land Portal.
The Violent Costs of the Global Palm Oil Boom
Just after nine o’clock on a Tuesday morning in June, an environmental activist named Bill Kayong was shot and killed while sitting in his pickup truck, waiting for a traffic light to change in the Malaysian city of Miri, on the island of Borneo. Kayong had been working with a group of villagers who were trying to reclaim land that the local government had transferred to a Malaysian palm-oil company.
Poverty overarching reason behind land grabbing
By: Staff Correspondent
Date: January 10, 2016
Source: The Daily Star
Observes an ongoing study by a unit of Brac University
Like Hindus many poor Muslims get robbed of their property by influential people across the country, finds an ongoing study.