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International court to prosecute environmental crimes in major shift
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 15th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Campaigners and human rights lawyers said the move reflects increasing global recognition of the severity of environmental crime
Africa’s women moving mountains to stand up for land rights
By: Holly Miller
Date: September 16th 2016
Source: Women's Agenda
No concern too small for mediators trying to limit Mumbai land disputes
By: Rina Chandran
Date: September 13th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When India's Tata Power engaged SPARC, a group focused on housing for the urban poor, to help relocate hundreds of families living under and around its distribution towers, it was the start of a long, complex process.
Experts applaud Namibia’s rangeland policy
By: Deon Schlechter
Date: September 14th 2016
Source: New Era
Namibia has the potential and is poised to enable a programme of improved rangeland management in local level land use planning and improved marketing conditions in communal areas.
This is true for the northern communal areas (NCAs) – where restrictions on marketing, farmers’ perspectives and current practices make improved rangeland management extremely challenging.
Developing countries need targeted policies focused on rural people to eliminate poverty
Date: September 14th 2016
Source: Economy Lead
Economic growth is not enough to save those threatened daily with starvation. Governments need to tailor policies and investments to transform rural areas in developing countries if they want to eliminate poverty, according to a new global study released by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) today.
South Africa: Many farmers in danger of going under due to drought
By: Bekezela Phakathi
Date: September 8th 2016
Source: BD Live
GOVERNMENT is intensifying its drought relief efforts amid fears that hundreds of commercial farmers will be forced to shut up shop as their rising debt reach crisis levels.
Tanzania turns to drones to bring peace in bitter fight for land
By: Kizito Makoye
Date: September 8th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"The use of drones will help us to define the boundaries of plots of land on the ground with great accuracy"