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By: Devex Editor
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Devex.com
This week in Washington, D.C., the World Bank is hosting its Annual Conference on Land and Poverty, a professional meeting that has swelled considerably in the past five years. Attendee numbers have expanded to a downright packed 1,200 people from governments, development agencies, academia, nongovernmental organizations and technology firms.
Mind the gap - Uganda, Ethiopia show good laws don't always work in practice
By: Paola Totaro
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
WASHINGTON, March 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Uganda's constitution of 1995 is known worldwide for pioneering and gender-sensitive provisions to protect women and their rights.
However the reality on the ground, even two decades later, is an entirely different story, according to a report presented on Tuesday at a World Bank Conference on Land Rights and Poverty.
For Indigenous Peoples, Megadams Are ‘Worse than Colonization’
By: Philippa de Boissière and Sian Cowman
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: Foreign Policy in Focus
These mega-projects expropriate land, spoil environments, and pollute democracies. Berta Cáceres gave her life resisting them.
Will land bills solve Kenya's squatter problem?
By PETER NGILA and JOHN MUCHANGI
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: The Star
Are the land bills being discussed in Parliament going to stop forced resettlement, grabbing and other land-related injustices?
The Indonesian National Committee on Family Farming approves its action plan for 2016
Representatives of farming organisations, NGOs and the public research agency met in January 2016 in the Bina Desa offices in Jakarta.
SUGAR RUSH: Land rights and the supply chains of the biggest food and beverage companies
This paper sets out how one crop – sugar – has been driving large- scale land acquisitions and land conflicts at the expense of small-scale food producers and their families. At least 4m hectares of land have been acquired for sugar production in 100 large-scale land deals since 2000, although given the lack of transparency around such deals, the area is likely to be much greater. In some cases, these acquisitions have been linked to human rights violations, loss of livelihoods, and hunger for small-scale food producers and their families.
"The New Urban Agenda will pay for itself"
By: Joan Clos
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: Citiscope
It’s time to emphasize implementation, the head of the Habitat III conference says.
Uganda: Oil - Bunyoro Demands Support for Women
By: Francis Mugerwa
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Hoima — Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom has asked government to initiate affirmative action programmes for women whose livelihoods have been disrupted by oil exploration activities in the oil-rich Albertine Grabben.
The Impact Of China's New Urbanization Plan Could Be Huge
By: Wade Shepard
Date: March 14th 2016
Source: Forbes
Last year, I was giving a talk about China’s urbanization drive and new city building movement at a literary festival in Suzhou when a member of the audience asked a very astute question:
“What is China going to do with these cities once they are all built?”
“Tear them down and build them again,” I responded.
