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China land: Losing the plot
Date: 7 July 2016
Source: Today
Fraught land policy based on collective ownership puts rural life at a crossroads
BEIJING — Among communist China’s holy pilgrimage sites, Xiaogang Village stands out. The tiny place is a living shrine to villagers who defied the party to dismantle disastrous communal farms that left more than 30 million dead from hunger during Mao Zedong’s reign.
Mountain peoples call for support to protect traditional knowledge
Date: 4 July 2016
Source: iied
Representatives of mountain communities in five countries have called for support to help them maintain traditional ways of protecting their landscapes and natural resources in the face of climate change.
Call for Nigerian farmers to unite in battle to save lands
By: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Date: 4 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Agriculture is the largest sector of the Nigerian economy with studies showing 80 percent of the nation's food is produced by small-scale farmers, the majority of whom are women, and loss of land can impact millions of the 175 million population.
Forest dwellers turn paralegals to keep ancestral land
By: Sophie Mbugua
Source: BRACED
SESIMWANI, Kenya – Birds sing, feet shuffle, as women and men of all ages emerge from spreading canopies of green.
Dressed in gumboots and carrying umbrellas, they hurry towards the Olodomut Nursery School in Sesimwani village, in Kenya’s Mau Forest. The community land mobiliser has called a meeting for the entire Ogiek community to discuss its by-laws.
Indonesia faces environmental time bomb after coal bust
By: Fergus Jensen
Date: 4 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Thousands of mines are closing in Indonesia's tropical coal belt as prices languish and seams run dry. But almost none of the companies have paid their share of billions of dollars owed to repair the badly scarred landscape they have left behind.
Philippines to review all mines as environmentalist takes helm
By: Manolo Serapio Jr and Enrico Dela Cruz
Date: 1 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The Philippines will review all mines operating in the country, the new mining minister said on Friday, as the committed environmentalist vowed to determine whether the industry is hurting the Southeast Asian nation.
Kenya's flourishing flower sector is not all roses for Maasai
By: Shadrack Kavilu
Date: 30 june 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The shores of Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Rift Valley are dotted with bustling shanty towns but it has not always been like this.
The local economy has grown dramatically since the late 1980s when the first commercial flower farms were established in the area, around 90 km (55 miles) north west of Nairobi.
Murders, violence on rise as central India battles for water
By: Shuriah Niazi
Date: 30 June 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
As northern and central India continue to suffer thorough severe drought and oppressive heat, police in the drought-hit Indian region of Bundelkhand and several other regions are reporting a rise in violent - and often deadly - clashes over water.
Call for proposals for research on local markets in times of urban crisis
Date: 27 June 2016
Source: iied
IIED is inviting proposals for original research that will contribute to understanding local markets in the context of urban humanitarian crisis and response. Closing date: 21 July, 2016