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Displaying 2081 - 2090 of 2403Kenya: Policy to Regulate Land Use Being Developed, Kaimenyi Says
By: Ouma Wanzala
Date: March 18th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
The government is in the process of developing a national land use policy to regulate the planning and use of land for sustainable development, Land Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi has said.
Prof Kaimenyi observed that sound land governance is fundamental in achieving sustainable development and poverty reduction.
India's tribes and lower castes demand legal right to shelter, land
By: Nita Bhalla
Date: March 18th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
NEW DELHI, March 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - For as long as she can remember, Panchi Sahariya and those in her tribal community in central India have been threatened, harassed, beaten and even arrested for living on land which does not legally belong to them.
Failure to pass equality bill betrays Nigerian women, activists say
By: Kieran Guilbert
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women's rights activists condemned the Nigerian Senate on Thursday for rejecting a gender and equality law that pledged to eliminate discrimination in politics, education and employment, protect women's land rights and tackle violence against women.
Scotland: ‘Historic’ land reform legislation passed
By: Andy Wightman
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: Scottishlegal.com
Legislation to transform how land is used and governed has been passed by the Scottish Parliament.
The Land Reform (Scotland) Bill will allow ministers to create a public register of those with a controlling interest in land to increase the transparency around land ownership.
Indigenous Activist Murdered in Honduras Just Two Weeks After Berta Cáceres Was Killed
By: Nika Knight
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: EcoWatch
Another member of Berta Cáceres’ Indigenous rights group was brutally murdered by unidentified assailants on Tuesday, following a violent eviction of Indigenous people from their land.
China: Urbanization key to reducing housing inventory
By: Ming Tian
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: CCTV
How can China deal with this real estate glut - that 720 million square meters of unsold housing? Political advisors say urbanization may be the way.
Real estate developers are feeling the heat, especially in less developed areas of China.
Large numbers of new apartment buildings stand empty. What used to be an asset has now become a liability.
'Losing our land like losing our lives', Brazil activist tells World Bank
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Investors describe it as one of the last frontiers for major agricultural expansion - a vast area in Brazil's poor northeast that the government is eager to open up to investors hoping to set up big new soy farms and cattle ranches.
FACTBOX-Women's land rights around the world
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO, March 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women account for nearly half of the developing world's farmers, yet they own far less land than men despite growing evidence that increasing female land ownership can boost food production, education levels and child nutrition.
South Sudan army says land grabbing not official policy
By: ST
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: Sudan Tribune
March 16, 2016 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s national army, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), has distanced itself from reports charging that some of its soldiers and officers have been grabbing land in and around Juba in a manner indicative of the practice having become an official policy of the government and the army.