By: Forest Peoples Programme (Press Release)
Date: April 26th 2016
Source: Forest Peoples Programme
By: Loh Foon Fong
Date: August 7th 2016
Source: The Star Online
SHAH ALAM: NGOs representing indigenous people are urging the federal and state governments to recognise the maps indigenous communities have drawn up to demarcate their land.
By: Joseph Mwamunyange
Date: September 3rd 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The East African
Tanzania's Land Act No. 4 of 1999 explicitly states that no foreigner can own land in the country.
According to the former executive director of HakiArdhi, Yefred Myenzi, the Act spells out how land can be used
Date: 10 January 2017
Source: Namati
Namati’s Community Land Protection Facilitators Guide is a step-by-step, practical “how to” manual for grassroots advocates working to help communities protect their customary claims and rights to land and natural resources.
By: Sally Andrews
Date: March 22nd 2016
Source: The Diplomat
97 percent of land in Papua New Guinea is held under customary title, leading to sky-high prices for the remaining 3 percent.
By: Doris Atwijukire
Date: 18 July 2016
Source: newvision
The many land wrangles in Bunyoro further led to the issuing of a ban on processing land titles in the Oil region by the President in 2009.
Currently, the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development is undertaking certification of
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: August 30th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"People are actually dying because of this issue"
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In Brazil's Amazon where no-one knows who exactly owns a swathe of territory the size of Ukraine, a lack of
Dynamic thematic portfolios combine detailed narratives with Linked Open Data to provide comprehensive global overview
GRONINGEN (11 November, 2016) — Forest tenure, gender and land rights, and indigenous and community land rights are all key thematic areas related to land governance. For this
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO, March 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women account for nearly half of the developing world's farmers, yet they own far less land than men despite growing evidence that increasing female land ownership can
By: Edward Loure and Fred Nelson
Date: April 27th 2016
Source: The Guardian
Customary land users care for roughly 50% of the earth’s land, but only about 10% is officially recognised as belonging to these communities
By: Jennifer Duncan and Jaron Vogelsang
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Civil society groups say failure to pass land reform could plunge the country into violence
By: Eliasu Tanko
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: STARRFM Online
A longstanding land dispute which continues to brew raw tensions in the Bole district of the Northern region has threatened the survival of a $3,139,383 poverty alleviation project.
The project, Babator Irrigated Farming Hub, an