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Displaying 1961 - 1970 of 2403Thai villagers seek answers to disappearance of land rights activist
By: Alisa Tang
Date: May 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Villagers from northeast Thailand traveled to Bangkok on Tuesday to demand that police and human rights groups investigate the disappearance of a prominent land rights activist who went missing last month.
6 reasons women should own lands
By: Ogechi Ekeanyanwu
Date: May 7th 2016
Source: Development Cable
A lot of widows in 35 countries, including Nigeria, do not have equal land inheritance rights.
In March, the gender equality bill, a bill to ensure gender parity, equal economic opportunities, and equality in marriage especially in terms of inheritance and land rights, was rejected by the senate.
Land rights at root of palm oil conflict in Liberia, campaigners say
By: Matthew Ponsford
Date: May 6th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The lack of tenure over ancestral lands lies at the root of violent clashes on land leased to foreign palm oil producers in Liberia, a leading researcher said.
RSPO orders Peruvian palm oil plantation to stop development
By: Apoorva Joshi
Date: May 5th 2016
Source: Mongabay.com
Meanwhile, dozens of NGOs urge removal of its parent company, United Cacao, from the London Stock Exchange amid legality issues.
- Plantaciones de Pucallpa is one of several industrial agriculture companies operating in Peru. It has been developing a palm oil plantation over the last several years.
Rwanda's regulatory environment in support of green urban development
By: Minnie Karanja
Date: May 5th 2016
Source: The New Times
According to the United Nations, the proportion of the world’s population living in urban areas is expected to reach 66 per cent by 2050. Best Practices have shown that the global “urbanization”, when properly managed, may drive the economic growth of a country. It is in this regard that the Government of Rwanda has decided to include measures related to urbanization as part of its policies and strategies.
Land titles for farmers help cut Brazil's forest loss: scientist
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: May 4th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brazil should speed up its program to grant small farmers formal land ownership to slow down the rate of logging and deforestation, a leading scientist said.
Indigenous and forest community leaders tour the EU to call for conflict-free palm oil
By: Mike Gaworecki
Date: May 4th 2016
Source: Mongabay
An international delegation of leaders from indigenous and forest communities in Colombia, Indonesia, Liberia, and Peru are in London today to call for action on human rights violations and land grabbing linked to the global trade in palm oil.
Land reform failures: Only 5% of India’s farmers control 32% farmland
By: Sumit Chaturvedi
Date: May 4th 2016
Source: F. India / Indiaspend.org
Almost three decades ago in 1990, Radheshyam, 49, was given half an acre of farm land free, taken away from a landlord as part of what was then a 40-year-old state law that allows distribution of such land to the poor.
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