By: Rod Harbinson
Date: 7th January 2016
Farmers on Palawan are being tricked into giving land away to palm oil companies with local government support. Under the palm oil company "leases" the farmers lose all rights to their land, never receive any money, and are saddled with 25 years of debt.
By: Maxwell Ngala
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: Hivisasa.com
More than 500 families at Lamkani area, in Bamburi, are crying out for justice over alleged grabbing of their ancestral land by influential private developers who have colluded with local administration and land officers.
By: Hannah Awadzi, GNA
Date: April 6th 2016
Source: News Ghana
Stakeholders in land administration, on Wednesday discussed details of a project that aims at ensuring socially responsible land-based investments.
The Responsible Investments in Property and Land (RIPL) project seeks to develop
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: Michael Sena Dzansi
Date: October 11th 2016
Source: News Ghana
CARITAS Ghana has stated that though Ghana has adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the new global framework for development, the country faces the risk of failing to attain some of these goals due to the negative
By: Fionuala Cregan
Date: January 20th 2016
Source: IC Magazine
NEW REPORT DOCUMENTS CHALLENGES OF DEFENDING INDIGENOUS LAND RIGHTS IN THE PARAGUAYAN CHACO
"We don't care if our struggle involves going to prison or even dying. Our struggle is about justice because the land is ours and our children'
Date: February 21st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
EDITORIAL
Land disputes involving farmers, pastoralists and investors have been plaguing Tanzania for years.
Cases are numerous in land tribunals and even the High Court. So serious are such misunderstandings that people have been killed
By: Sophie Morlin-Yron
Date: April 25th 2016
Source: The Ecologist
Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron. That ability to straddle the two very different
By: Frederic Musisi
Date: August 25th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Kampala — The new proposed amendments to the Land law that seeks to provide for compulsory acquisition of land for government development projects such as roads and other infrastructure have sparked outrage, with
By: Alisa Tang
Date: November 3rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Land conflicts in Myanmar have escalated in recent years, with military and armed groups driving people from their land, and new laws failing to protect farmers, a rights watchdog said
In the Bagamoyo District, a lease of over 20.000 hectares of land is being secured for the next 99 years to a Swedish-owned company called EcoEnergy, for a sugar-cane plantation project supported by the African Development Bank, the International Fund for Agriculture and Development, and the