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
Date: March 21st 2016
Source: Odisha Samachar
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