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Indonesia: Criminalization, discrimination against indigenous people worsening: AMAN
By: Callistasia Anggun Wijaya
Date: January 27th 2016
Source: Jakarta Post
The criminalization and discrimination of indigenous people by the government and other parties has worsened, especially because no regulation protects their rights, says the Alliance of Indigenous People (AMAN).
La Fundación Tierra propone implementar acciones para evitar una crisis alimentaria
Por: MAMP/MVV
Fecha: 27 de enero
Fuente: Noticias Fides (ANF)
Promover el acceso a la tierra y una agricultura sostenible son dos de las tareas en las que se debe trabajar, indica la Fundación Tierra.
Cambodia: Labour shortages as farmers cash in on rising land prices
By: Catherine Harry
Date: January 28th 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
As Cambodia slowly shifts away from labour-intensive agriculture, mechanised farming needs to take hold to sustain productivity.
Philippines: Farmers start life as owners of land
By: Delfin T. Mallari Jr.
Date: January 28th 2016
Source: Inquirer Southern Luzon
It was a new day for farmers in an estate in Quezon province who had long been struggling to own the land they were tilling.
For the first time in their lives, farmers in the controversial Hacienda Matias in Quezon were able to keep the income from their harvests.
Oxfam America
Mission & Vision
Oxfam America is a global organization working to right the wrongs of poverty, hunger, and injustice. As one of 17 members of the international Oxfam confederation, we work with people in more than 90 countries to create lasting solutions. Oxfam saves lives, develops long-term solutions to poverty, and campaigns for social change.
Our vision: A just world without poverty.
Our mission: To create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and social injustice.
Oxfam Novib
Mission and Vision
A just world, without poverty. That is our mission. We believe that people can build independent livelihoods, provided their rights are respected. That is why we help people around the world to stand up for their rights.
1. Right to sustainable livelihood resources
Everybody must be sure of a fair income and enough to eat. Yet this is not the case for 20% of the world’s population. That is why we are working on better access to land and water, and on fair working and trading conditions.
Canada: Le ministre Blanchette préoccupé par l'accaparement des terres agricoles
Date: 26 Janvier 2016
Source: Ici Radio Canada
L'Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA) de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue tire la sonnette d'alarme sur ce qu'il qualifie de phénomène d'accaparement de terres agricoles dans la région.
South Africa: New land expropriation law nears completion
By: Jenni Evans
Date: January 26th 2016
Source: News24
Cape Town - A proposed new expropriation law is nearing completion, with MPs putting the final touches to a key element of the government's land reform programme.
Myanmar police force hundreds from factory area slums as land-grabbing grows rampant
By: Agence France-Presse
Date: January 26th 2016
Source: South China Morning Post
Hundreds of Myanmar families were left destitute on Tuesday after government workers used mechanical diggers to flatten swathes of Yangon slum housing as the bitter competition for land intensifies in the fast-industrialising city.