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"Give us this day our daily rice": The search for food security in Sierra Leone
By: Dr. Hassan B. Sisay, USA.
Date: September 8th 2016
Source: The Patriotic Vanguard
Sierra Leone has a severe and complicated relationship with rice, exacerbated by its reliance on an obsolete land tenure system.
Blockchain Land Registry May Lead to New Global Financial Crisis
By: S. Matthew English
Date: September 4th 2016
Source: The Coin Telegraph
A Blockchain-based land registry may help create new toxic assets and lead to a new financial meltdown.
India's municipal expenditures one of the poorest in the world, a major barrier to urbanization: UN-Habitat report
Date: September 7th 2016
Source: Counter View
A new study by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), “World Cities Report 2016: Urbanization and Development – Emerging Futures” has regretted extremely low levels of “aggregate municipal expenditures in India”, which happen to be of the worst in the world.
Vietnamese Police Evict Hundreds of Families From Village Near Hanoi
By: Viet Ha & Roseanne Gerin
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: Radio Free Asia
About 300 Vietnamese police evicted farmers from their land in a village on the outskirts of the country’s capital Hanoi on Tuesday, though there have been no reports of detentions or injuries, a local resident said.
India nearly doubles budget for digitisation of land records
By: Rina Chandran
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India will nearly double the budget and extend the deadline for a programme to digitise land records as states struggle to survey land and property, large chunks of which have not been mapped in a century, a senior official said.
Habitat III agenda must address human rights and the needs of rural people
By: Shivani Chaudhry
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
In order to ensure that ‘no one is left behind,’ the Habitat III outcome document must be grounded in a human rights approach.
The botanical garden poised to swallow a Brazilian favela
By: Angela Almeida and John Surico
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Inside Rio de Janeiro's Horto favela, half-paved roads connect scattered homes, as monkeys comb through the trees above, and water streams through aqueducts, built by slaves centuries before.
Namibia: Thousands of Women Get Commercial Farms
By: Albertina Nakale
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / New Era
Windhoek — Of the 5 231 individuals who benefitted from the resettlement programme since independence to date, 1 405 are female, while 2 039 are men.
The remaining 1 787 are classified as 'group resettlement'.
Director for land reform and resettlement in the Ministry of Land Reform Peter Nangolo said all landless Namibians that apply for resettlement are considered without gender discrimination.