Enterprising agriculture in Nepal: Essential yet challenging thanks to sluggish government
03 September 2022
Significant gaps have been seen among production, consumption and livelihood systems in the latest three decades.
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15 October 2021
Background
The Land Portal Foundation is a non-for-profit organization based in the Netherlands dedicated to supporting the efforts of the rural poor to gain equitable access to land by addressing the fragmentation of information resources on land. We believe access to information is crucial to achieve good land governance and to
Indonesia announces plan to protect 10% of its seas by 2030, and 30% by 2045
26 August 2022
Indonesia plans to expand protection of its seas to cover an area nearly the size of Germany by 2030 — and then tripling it by 2045.
In Bangladesh, solar power brings work, but land shortage slows growth
25 August 2022
Solar power has brought benefits for citizens while creating jobs. But the sector’s growth has been constrained by bottlenecks such as a lack of land on which to build large-scale plants.
Pandemic, social unrest and war echoing in the Amazon
29 September 2022
Recent global events have had dyre impacts on the world's remaining forests, particularly in tropical regions.
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First round of calls for #Blog4Land: Call for submissions!
01 September 2022
Theme for first round: Gender & Property Rights
Land and housing are some of the most valuable assets for an individual. However, several studies and government records have historically revealed a gender skew in property ownership, with more men owning land and housing than women. According to the World Economic Forum, women hold less than 20% of the world’s land.
Land Documentation is Not a Blanket Solution for Tenure Security
23 August 2022
Land tenure security is the protection people can have from the state that their land parcels will not be bullied away from them by vested interests through unfair evictions.
It is the opposite of land tenure insecurity.
There are many forms of land documentation. This includes land titles (a legal document that outlines a person's rights) and deeds (legal document of transfer of land/title from one person to another).
55 communities protest Edo Govt illegal acquisition of their farmland
20 August 2022
No fewer than 55 communities in four local government areas of Edo State yesterday protested the acquisition of the communities’ rainforest reserve and farmland by the state Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, in spite of pending court cases on the matter.
Some of the impacted communities which protested include Odighi, Odiguetue, Uhiere, Owan, Agbanikaka, Orhua, Oke-Irhue, Ekhen-Irhue, Ago Oshodin, Ekpan, Ofumwegbe, Umokpe, Agudezi, Ozalla, and Igbira Camp.
Kenya: UN expert hails historic reparations ruling in favour of indigenous peoples
18 July 2022
The historic ruling follows a landmark judgment delivered by the Court on 26 May 2017, findin
Dubai royal family driving out thousands of Maasai to oblige rich foreign hunters
25 August 2022
Maasai are being evicted from a Tanzanian wildlife paradise to make way for neocolonial land grabs by the Dubai royal family. The reason? The right to hunt unhindered for the next 30 years.
Indigenous Maasai, widely acknowledged as exceptional wildlife conservationists, are being dispossessed of the lands of their birth in order to hand some of the finest wildlife territories of Tanzania to wealthy foreign hunters. And the government is bending over backwards to make sure it happens.