By: Tracy Barnett
Date: December 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
LA YESCA, Mexico(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Audelina Villagrana has run her ranch in Mexico's Western Sierra Madre mountains on her own since the death of her husband 23 years ago, herding livestock, hiring local
By: Express News Service
Date: January 10th 2016
Source: New Indian Express
BENGALURU: The state government on Saturday was urged to set up special courts, envisaged in the Karnataka Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, and bring the offenders to book without any further delay.
By: Kizito Makoye
Date: 21 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
In Tanzania, land rights are enshrined in the Land Act and the Village Land Act, both of 1999, which grant women equal rights to access, own and control land as any man.
However, the reality on the ground for women is
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One of the world's biggest gold mining firms has pledged to improve its dispute resolution practices following an 18-month investigation into a bitter, ongoing conflict
By: Kavita Upadhyay
Date: 17 January 2017
Source: The Hindu
People say the Congress has gone back on its promise to assign land rights.
By: APA
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: Star Africa.com
A coalition of civil society activists have condemned the verdict against a group of land rights activists jailed last week after confrontation with a French agri-business firm over land ownership.
The men, who are part of the Malen Land
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: August 9th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Colombia is expanding its land restitution program into former no-go areas in the country's war-torn south aiming to return land stolen from farmers by illegal armed groups, the
By: Mark Keith Muhumuza
Date: October 10th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Kampala — Land owners will have to sell their land to the government if a prospecting mining company makes a discovery.
In the ongoing review of the Mining Act 2003 and Mining Policy, landowners will no longer
By: Nicolás Ríos
Date: March 30th 2016
Source: Vice News
Sonia Navarrete, the owner of a small forestry business in Chile, was on her way home one day in June 2015 when she and her husband were ambushed by a group of five hooded men. The attackers tied them up and held them captive for an hour,
By: Stephen Yeboah
Date: August 23rd 2016
Source: The Conversation
The interaction between artisanal (small scale) mining and agriculture in Africa still needs to be carefully considered by policy makers to ensure that people’s livelihoods and countries' export revenues aren’t threatened. It’s
By: Sizwe Sama Yende
Date: November 1st 2016
Source: City Press
Criminal charges have been laid relating to one of the biggest land claim scams in the country – potentially costing the government millions – but the rural development and land reform department says it knows nothing about it.
Source: The Guardian
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Brazil's Guarani Indians killing themselves over loss of ancestral land
Arson attacks and eviction at gunpoint for plantations driving many to despair and take their own lives