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International Land Coalition Facility Supports Innovative and High Impact Interventions
The International Land Coalition announces a new initiative called the Facility in Support of Innovative and High Impact Targeted Interventions on the ground (FTI). This facility builds on the experience gained through a previous programme, ILCs Community Empowerment Facility (CEF), ‘which supported 52 small projects led by civil society organizations to apply innovative approaches that help the rural poor gain access to and control over land and other natural resources (for a total amount of USD3.5 million during the 1999-2009 period.
Mexican ranchers and indigenous people urge government to solve land conflict
By: Tracy Barnett
Date: December 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
LA YESCA, Mexico(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Audelina Villagrana has run her ranch in Mexico's Western Sierra Madre mountains on her own since the death of her husband 23 years ago, herding livestock, hiring local Huichol people and even raising a young Huichol boy like a son.
India: Issues of land and landlessness echo in Adivasi hamlets in Kerala as elections draw near
By: TA Ameerudheen
Date: April 6th 2016
Source: Scroll in
Advasis, one of the most marginalised communities in the state, feel successive governments have failed to keep their promises on the redistribution of land.
Kenya: Coast Leaders Retreat to Address Land Problems
Implement native courts alongside civil system, Dayak land rights forum urges
By: Sulok Tawie
Date: 7 January 2017
Source: Malaymail Online
A Dayak native customary rights (NCR) land forum today called on the state government to constitute a native court system which runs parallel with the civil court.
FAO recognizes La Via Campesina's crucial role as the major international small food producer's organisation
(Rome, 4 October 2013)
Today, during a meeting between La Via Campesina and FAO's Director general Jose Graziano da Silva an agreement of cooperation was formalized which acknowledged the essential role played by small holder food producers. Their role was recognised as most important in the eradication of world hunger.
Paraguay battles over land rights in the courts and across the airwaves
By: Toby Stirling Hill
Date: May 3rd 2016
Source: The Guardian
As soya companies appropriate land in Paraguay, many small-scale campesino farmers are forced out to cities. For those who stay to fight for their land, the conflict can turn bloody
Land-grabbing now prevails in ‘Yolanda’ disaster areas
Lucknow, Warangal among 13 smart cities announced by Indian government
Source: The Hindu
Date: May 25, 2016
Seven more capital cities, including Bengaluru, allowed to enter the smart city competition
The Union government on Tuesday announced the names of 13 more cities that will be developed under the Centre’s “Smart City Mission.” Lucknow in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh tops the list, followed by Warangal in Telangana and Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh.
Here's why foreign investors are trying to buy American farmland
Tribes that inspired Oscar-nominated Colombian film fear destruction within a generation
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Author: Matthew Ponsford
Picture: Andres Cordoba; A photograph taken during the filming of Colombia's Best Foreign Language Film nominee "Embrace of the Serpent" shows Antonio Bolivar as the protagonist Karamakate, the last surviving member of an Colombian Amazonian tribe.
Editing by Paola Totaro.
Friday 10 June : 15:06
Tribes that inspired Oscar-nominated Colombian film fear destruction within a generation - director