By: Vivian Jebet
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
Elders from Somali, Borana, Samburu and Turkana communities have dismissed attempts by a Parliamentary committee on Lands to resolve disputes in Isiolo.
The elders said they were disappointed by recent visit by the
Employment creation is often seen as a key benefit of investment in natural resources. However, this benefit sometimes falls short: job estimates may be inflated, governmental policies may fail to maximize employment generation, and, in some cases, investments may lead to net livelihood losses.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - International land deals, often for giant agriculture projects, now cover an area the size of Germany and a growing share are getting up and running, fuelling fears that
By: James Bennett
Date: October 25th 2016
Source: ABC News
It is hot and windy as farmer Parduman Sinh looks out across a salt-encrusted floodplain in India's western state of Gujarat.
The Government has offered Mr Sinh part of the muddy expanse as compensation for his farm to make way for one of
By: Rachel Diaz-Bastin
Date: December 20th 2016
Source: Mongabay.com
From Rhetoric to Action: Scaling Up Community and Indigenous Peoples’ Land and Resource Rights
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Date: February 15th 2016
Source: SABC
Civil Society will head to the Constitutional Court in Braamfontein to challenge the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act on Tuesday.
The Act re-opened the land restitution process for another five years.
50 communities will hold a night vigil at the
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Investors describe it as one of the last frontiers for major agricultural expansion - a vast area in Brazil's poor northeast that the government is eager to open up to investors
By: Greg Scruggs
Date: September 15th 2016
Source: Citiscope
Community groups want to show next month’s conference that answers begin at the bottom, not at the top.
By: Jatindra Dash
Date: October 3rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BHUBANESWAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Villagers in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand vowed to continue their protest against a coal mine after four people were killed when police opened fire during clashes
Source: New Jersey Herald
Author: Haggag Salama
LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Hundreds of Egypt's ethnic minority Nubians have blocked a main road in the country's south to protest the government's plan to sell land they claim to be their ancestral territory.
Monday's protest, on the road between the city
The majority of the communities of the northern Senegalese region of Ndiaël stand in opposition against the Senhuile-Sénéthanol project, which deprives them of access to most of their lands and threatens their basic means of subsistence. The actions of this Italian-Senegalese company pose a grave