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From the Nicaragua Center for Community Action (Nicca) Date: 25 September 2016 Source: Havana Times  
By: Katy Migiro Date: December 29, 2016 Source:Thomson Reuters Foundation NAIROBI, Nov 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As Kenya counts down to elections in 2017, public schools and hospitals should map their boundaries, fence them and get title deeds to protect them from irregular
The Guardian Sustainable Business The palm oil company at the centre of a bitter land rights struggle in Cameroon Victoria Schneider in Cameroon Monday 27 July 2015 08.45 EDT   Local residents complain expansion plans by Socapalm, Cameroon’s biggest palm oil company, will take over land
By: Stephen Brooks 04 December 2015 Joseph Zulu never uses the term “climate-smart agriculture,” even as he proudly points out the fertilizer trees he planted between rows of crops on his field in Zambia’s eastern province. But whether he uses the term or not, Zulu is a wonderful example of how
By: Deodatus Mfugale Date: February 1st 2016 Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News ANALYSISIn September 2015, a group comprising eight non-governmental organisations that deal with land rights and extractives resources advocacy submitted to the Human Rights Council, Universal Periodic
By: Vivian Jebet Date: February 16th 2016 Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation Elders from Somali, Borana, Samburu and Turkana communities have dismissed attempts by a Parliamentary committee on Lands to resolve disputes in Isiolo. The elders said they were disappointed by recent visit by the
By: Samuel Karanja and Jacqueline Kubania Date: March 8th 2016 Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation Even though the country has made significant gains in empowering women, female genital mutilation (FGM), rape and domestic violence remain some of the biggest threats that girls and women face daily
By: Doreen Andoh Date: April 28th 2016 Source: Graphic Online The Deputy Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Ms Barbara Serwaa Asamoah, has underscored the relevance of women’s access to land in national development, describing it as fundamental to women’s economic empowerment and
By: Ray Mwareya Date: 5 July 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Although the law gives men and women equal property rights, the reality is very different in eastern Mozambique, one of the country's poorest regions. In the Chikwidzire district of Manica province, which borders Zimbabwe
By: Sally Hayden Date: August 11th 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mass street protests that saw dozens of people shot by Ethiopian security forces over the weekend could spill into civil war if the government fails to reform land use policies, a
By: Rina Chandran Date: September 26th 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation VEMULAGHAT, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The peacefulness of the lush green fields of paddy and maize lining the road to Vemulaghat village in Telangana, India belies the anger of villagers protesting against

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