By: Richard Hackett
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: The Independent.ie
Normally at this time of year, while the harvest is still being wrapped up, thoughts rapidly turn to the next cropping season.
By: Jonas Holldack
Date: March 6th 2016
Source: Venezuela Analysis
By: Roy Prosterman (Landesa)
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Could the newly democratic nation become Asia's sixth development success story?
Since World War II, there have been five great Asian development success stories founded upon land tenure reforms that
By: Kavitha Iyer
Date: March 26th 2016
Source: Indian Express
In Marathwada’s worst-hit districts of Beed, Osmanabad and Latur, households now have an uncompromising priority list of expenses as an economy hit by years of near-total crop failure goes into a tailspin.
By: Kieran Cooke
Date: October 5th 2016
Source: Middle East Eye
After food costs spike, Saudis spent billions buying up farm land around the world. Who benefits exactly and can the spree continue?
By: Matt Weiser
Date: May 6th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Almarai, the largest dairy business in Saudi Arabia, has purchased land in California to grow alfalfa for its cattle – and it’s rubbing some people the wrong way
By: Michael Gray
Date: November 11th 2016
Source: Common Space
Scottish Government proposes team to take forward land reform aims
THE FIRST COMMISSIONERS to Scotland’s land agency to tackle centuries of land inequalities in the country have been proposed by the Scottish Government.
“Land grabbing” – the purchase of large areas of land in developing countries by foreign governments and businesses – has been controversial. Of the roughly 33 million hectares of land bought to date, around 22 million hectares have been acquired for agriculture. There are concerns that this has
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: June 14th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The guidelines aim to ensure small farmers are consulted about land deals that affect their property
Just after nine o’clock on a Tuesday morning in June, an environmental activist named Bill Kayong was shot and killed while sitting in his pickup truck, waiting for a traffic light to change in the Malaysian city of Miri, on the island of Borneo. Kayong had been working with a group of villagers
By: Rashida Ntotela
Date: January 22nd 2016
Source: Cii News
It seems the African National Congress (ANC) has a long way to go in redressing the historical injustice of land dispossession, denial of access to land and forced removals in South Africa.
By John Raphael
Date: August 3rd 2016
Source: Nature World News
A new study revealed that tree cover on agricultural around the world has increased, potentially helping in the mitigation of climate change by capturing nearly 0.75 Gigatonnes carbon dioxide every year.