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Tanzania: Protect Poor People Against Land Grab
Date: February 21st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
EDITORIAL
Land disputes involving farmers, pastoralists and investors have been plaguing Tanzania for years.
Cases are numerous in land tribunals and even the High Court. So serious are such misunderstandings that people have been killed or injured, livestock wounded, homes set alight, farms destroyed and hostilities lingered.
Ethiopia's crackdown on land protests ongoing: rights group
By: Aaron Maasho
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: Mail Online / Reuters
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Ethiopia continues to crack down on demonstrators in its vast Oromiya region some four months after protests began over plans to develop an economic zone on what is now farmland around the capital, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
Myanmar: Conflict and powerful companies stoke land disputes in Kachin
By: Thin Lei Win Myanmar Now
Date: February 23rd 2016
Source: Mizzima
La Laung Daung Nan vividly remembers the last day of April 2015.
FAO assists Iran on tenure of land, fisheries, forestry
By: PT/PR
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: Mehr News Agency
TEHRAN, Feb. 22 (MNA) – FAO has conducted a three-day technical workshop (21-23 February 2016) in Tehran focusing on the responsible governance of tenure of land, fisheries, forestry and cross-cutting issues in the country aimed at enhancing national food security.
Ugandan farmers call on United Nations to sever ties with Bidco Africa
By: Babatunde Akinsola
Date: February 23rd 2016
Source: Naija247 News
Lake Victoria farmers cite Bidco land-grabbing, environmental destruction and human rights violations in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania
Kenya: When Ministers, Civil Servants Got 100 Acres and Farm House for Free
By: John Kamau
Date: February 21st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
OPINION
Many Kenyans have never heard about the Z-Plots - yet if anyone wants to investigate the origins of land grabbing in Kenya, this is where they should start.
Pakistan: The economics of land reform
By: Danish Khan
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: The International News
Due to the colonial history of Pakistan, land distribution is highly skewed in favor of political and social elites. According to estimates, four percent of the wealthiest rural landowners own more than fifty percent of all cultivated land in Pakistan. Moreover, fifty percent of the rural families are landless and this number is continuously on the rise.