La Asamblea Nacional se allanó a 16 de las 18 objeciones presentadas por el Ejecutivo a la Ley de Tierras Rurales y Territorios Ancestrales, aprobada en enero. Esta ahora podrá entrar al Registro Oficial para ser promulgada.

La norma busca garantizar la redistribución de la tierra productiva para los campesinos sin tierra, con poca tierra o que tienen de mala calidad. Para ello, se crea el Fondo Nacional de Tierras y se establece créditos e incentivos para la producción.

By: Isis Almeida

Date: March 8th 2016

Source: Bloomberg Business

• Lower social status mean women get less food in many countries

• Women are responsible for more than 50% of global food output

Women account for 70 percent of the world’s hungry even as they produce more than half of the global food output, the United Nations said.

By: Boonnum Kerdkaew

Date: March 10th 2016

Source: Bangkok Post

UTTARADIT - Residents of two communities say land reform authorities plan to distribute land at Bueng Kalo marsh to wealthy people and relatives of politicians.

By: Khine Kyaw

Date: March 10th 2016

Source: The Nation / Myanmar Eleven

CIVIL SOCIETY organisations (CSOs) and local residents living near the Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) have called for action from the Japanese, Myanmar and Thai governments to tackle human rights violations before allowing the project to resume.

By: Segun Adebowale

Date: March 9th 2016

Source: The Eagle Online

By: Silvia Ceriani

Date: March 9th 2016

Source: Slowfood.com

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.

Speaking during the International Women's Day celebrations at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre, women leaders were in agreement that more still needs to be done to safeguard women's rights.

By: TNN

Date: March 8th 2016

Source: Times of India

BALASORE: The Mayurbhanj district administration has handed over land pattas - documents of legal rights - to 1,938 single landless women. The women received legal rights to homestead land at a ceremony on Saturday.

By: Kieran Guilbert

Date: March 8th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

DAKAR, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rural women across West Africa will march to demand equal land rights on Tuesday to mark International Women's Day, as activists urge African nations to invest in female farmers.

By: Chris Arsenault

Date: March 8th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

TORONTO, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in more than 90 countries still lack equal rights to own land, hurting food production and efforts to tackle poverty, Rwanda's former agriculture minister said.

By: Pambana Bassett
Date: March 5th 2016
Source: Amandela

The concerns about the massive land grab of Belize, whether it be up to the Sibun River, or the entire 8,867 square miles of land in addition to sea territory, are serious. The oligarchy of Guatemala has made a habit of usurping land from those to whom it belongs, for hundreds of years.

By: Jimmy Lwangili
Date: March 4th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News

Morogoro — Three districts in Morogoro Region will have their land surveyed in a bid to help people access title deeds and proper management of their land.

Surveying land and allocating it for various purposes will be done in Ulanga, Malinyi and Kilombero districts, through implementation of the Land Tenure Support Programme (LTSP) for Tanzania that kicked off in January 2015.