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Women farmers in northern India battle tradition, self-doubt to own land
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 29 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
But she has never owned land - a right she has been denied by inconsistent inheritance laws and her community's rigid custom that led her to believe only a man should own land.
Did Habitat III make progress on the stickiest of urbanization issues — land reform?
By: Gregory Scruggs
Date: 15 December 2016
Source: Citiscope
Policymakers will be pushed to recognize the importance of tenure reforms in cities, analysts say. Such processes also can do much to stem rural migration to cities.
Pre-cooked beans could turn down heat on Africa's dwindling forests
By: Pius Sawa
Date: 16 December 2016
Source:PLACE.TRUST.ORG
"I used to stay away three hours looking for enough wood to cook beans, but now it is easy because I need just a small bundle"
Why Zimbabwe has failed to sate the yearning for land and to fix rural hunger
Date: 12 December 2016
Source: The Conversation
Almost 40 years after its independence, land reform remains at the heart of Zimbabwe’s political and economic challenges. But perhaps more than any other issue in Zimbabwe, it has historically been met with inertia from government and the international community.
Prominent Honduran land rights activists report death threats
By: Paola Totaro
Date: 16 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Four high profile Honduran rights activists fighting to protect their ancestral lands in the southwest of the country have received death threats, including a home visit by a man wielding a machete, a monitoring group said on Friday.
Govt. not serious about implementing Forest Rights Act, say adivasi groups
Date: 16 December
Source: The Hindu
“If the government genuinely wants to do good by us, all it needs to do is to give us our constitutional rights over our jal-jangal-zameen (water-forest-land) as per the FRA.”
Corruption, caste keep poor from owning land in northern India
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 14 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
For decades, Kunta lived in a hut outside Kachhidih village in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state, enduring the insults of higher-caste villagers who claimed her land - which she did not legally own - for grazing cattle.
She dreamed of owning just a small piece of land for her family who belong to the traditionally low-caste Dalit group.