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Displaying 1621 - 1630 of 2403Ghana hosts International Land Forum
By: AGN Editor
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: All Ghana News
Accra, Sept. 20, GNA - The 2016 International Land Conference has started in Accra to enable participating countries deliberate on land policies and reforms and their impact on food security and poverty reduction in Africa.
Justice for Berta: Honduran women activists launch land rights campaign
By: Vicki Gass
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Oxfam America
Women are banding together in Honduras and around the world to demand #LandRightsNow.
Fiji: Land and water resources management identified to achieve sustainable food security
By: Swastika Singh
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Fijivillage.com
Different varieties of dalo, yams, cassava and sweet potatoes are some of the climate change resilient crops.
Permanent Secretary for Agriculture Jitendra Singh says to achieve sustainable food security, land and water resources management has been identified as one of the priority areas.
Why anti land grabbing law will work in Lagos — Jimoh, state lawmaker
By Ebun Sessou & Damilola Olabiyisi
Date: September 16th 2016
Source: Vanguard
Deputy Majority Leader, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Olumuyiwa Jimoh, who is representing Apapa II, speaks on the newly enacted law criminalising land grabbing in the state.
What is the significance of the land grabbing law?
Bridging the GAP: The Habitat III strategy ‘is an agenda affecting grass-roots people’
By: Greg Scruggs
Date: September 15th 2016
Source: Citiscope
Community groups want to show next month’s conference that answers begin at the bottom, not at the top.
Rwanda’s longest drought in six decades: The effects on food security and lessons learnt
By: Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Date: September 16th 2016
Source: New Times
Sitting in the doorway of her residential house in the remote Murundi Sector, Kayonza District in Eastern Province, Verena Uwineza is sorting beans for evening meal on a traditional basket.
It is Monday, September 12. By most accounts, everybody has been affected by prolonged drought in this area.
Tanzanian Women Getting an Upper Hand Over Land
By: Kizito Makoye Shigela
Date: September 15th 2016
Source: In Depth News
VILABWA, Tanzania (IDN) - At a small village south of Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, women rarely talk about land issues because customary norms keep them at bay. “We don’t have the voice, its men who decide everything,” said Saada Hassan a resident of Vilabwa.
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