Tiempo Muerto, or “The Dead Season,” visits sugar plantations across the Philippines, when many farmers struggle with hunger and deprivation because there’s no work during this off-milling period of the year. The season can be so brutal on farmers that more than a quarter of a million people—a
By: Ilze-Marie Le Roux
Date: November 9th 2016
Source: Eyewitness News South Africa
CAPE TOWN - Rural Development and Land Reform Deputy Minister Mcebisi Skwatsha says the land redistribution programme is on track despite “teething problems”.
By: Sanitsuda Ekachai
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Bangkok Post
By: Anne Kidmose Jensen
Date: April 19th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
Dar es Salaam — Human Rights Watch has urged the government to 'immediately' amend provisions of the inheritance law, saying it violates the rights of women.
Under the existing laws, women are often left with
By: Jos Garneo Cephas
Date: August 26th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Front Page Africa
Monrovia — Land governance and administration experts are engaging citizens through regional workshops on land governance issues, including accelerated action on the passage into law of the Liberia Land
By: Shinovene Immanuel
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: The Namibian
FOREIGN nationals will no longer be allowed to own agricultural, commercial and communal land if a proposed law tabled last week by lands minister Utoni Nujoma is passed in parliament.
Details on how government plans to ban
By: Ed Stoddard
Date: February 23rd 2016
Source: Reuters
South Africa's main house of parliament took a first step on Tuesday toward enabling the state to make compulsory purchases of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership.
By: Minnie Karanja
Date: May 5th 2016
Source: The New Times
According to the United Nations, the proportion of the world’s population living in urban areas is expected to reach 66 per cent by 2050. Best Practices have shown that the global “urbanization”, when properly managed, may drive the
By: Mark M. Dahn
Date: September 14th 2016
Source: Mongabay
By: Rina Chandran
Date: December 21st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
CHENNAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India must pass a law granting women equal rights to land as men if the country is to ensure more food is grown for its more than 1 billion people and greater respect for
By: Niranjani Roland and Asanka Fernando
Date: March 3rd 2016
Source: UCA News
Property rights should be included in the island nation's constitution, activists say
Punchirala Somasiri feels helpless whenever his oldest child asks for extra money to buy things for school. Most of the time he
Date: August 1st 2016
Source: NTV Uganda
Members of Parliament have condemned government’s move, saying it’s suspect and could fuel land grabbing. They are vowing to oppose the amendment.