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By: R. Quentin Grafton and John Williams, ANU, and Qiang Jiang, Sichuan University
Date: February 2nd 2016
Source: East Asia Forum
Asia’s food systems are under an unprecedented confluence of pressures. Balancing future food demand and supply in ways that protect the most vulnerable, while also…
By: Jennifer Rigby
Date: 28 June 2016
Source: europe.newsweek
Keo Yeun nods at the two metal rods, then at a small hole nearby, full of brown water. “It’s not magic,” he says, shrugging. “I’m experimenting with water, to survive.”
Keo lives on a small farm near Cambodia’s ancient…
Date: 11 July 2016
Source: IWMI
Over the course of a decade, half the spring water in the Indian state of Sikkim disappeared. Nestled in the eastern Himalayas, the villages of Sikkim saw their wells run dry, pastures parched, and families travel farther and farther from home to draw fresh water…
By: Clelia Daniel
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: CSR Asia
The International Federation for Human Rights (IFHR), a human rights umbrella organization, recently stated that Southeast Asia is facing increasing conflicts and violence over land grab activity. Land grab relates to speculation and…
By: Jiji
Date: August 28th 2016
Source: Japan Times
The land ministry plans to draft a multilateral framework that could help developing nations in Asia make better use of their land through careful planning, government sources said.
The sources said the ministry will propose the framework at…
By: Amy Lieberman
Source: devex
Date: 7 November 2016
More than 1 billion people on the planet lack secure rights to the land they rely on for their livelihood, a problem that has long been recognized as an obstacle to economic development in the poorest parts of the world.
Now,…
Nous accompagnons chaque année techniquement et financièrement des associations menant des projets de conservation de la biodiversité sur les quatre continents.
Ces projets peuvent prendre différentes formes mais doivent toujours garder en leur centre l’objectif de conservation ainsi que la…
Quinze ans après la "ruée vers la terre", un resserrement mondial des terres sur plusieurs fronts contraint les agriculteurs et les communautés à abandonner leurs terres.
Après une interruption de 15 ans, accaparement des terres fait de nouveau la une des journaux. Il est apparu récemment que…