25 January 2017
By: Nisha Nambiar
Date: 25 January 2017
Source: Times of Inadia
20 January 2017
By: Paola Totaro
Date: 20 January 2017
Source: Reuters
Kosovo is to revolutionise its land laws and will, for the first time, clearly define formal ownership and encourage women to inherit and own land in their own right.
12 December 2015
By: Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava
Hindustan Times, New Delhi
Updated: Dec 12, 2015
India witnessed an impressive surge in the number of women owning or managing agricultural land in 2001-11 with landholdings under them registering a faster growth in this period than the ones controlled by men, shows
27 October 2014
More than 1 million hectares of forest terrain and land leased by private companies has been put under government control since Prime Minister Hun Sen initiated a moratorium on new economic land concessions (ELCs) in May 2012, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction has
1 February 2012
The entirety of three protected forests are now classified as private land, an investigation from rights group Adhoc has found, along with tens of thousands of additional hectares of what has once been state public land.
In total, an area slightly smaller than the size of Jakarta has been
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: Loirdham Moyo
Date: April 12th 2016
Source: VOA Zimbabwe
MUTARE, MANICALAND — Zimbabweans took up arms to fight against colonialism with the land question as a driving force for achieving black majority rule in the southern African nation.
By: Anjaya Anparthi|
Date: August 25th 2016
Source: Times of India
By: Barbara Mae Dacanay
Date: October 12th 2016
Source: The Gulf News
Manila: Twelve farmers fighting for land reform were arrested and have remained in prison based on a complaint of a landlord in central Philippines at the start of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte who has revived
By: Editor
Date: March 1st 2016
Source: Thai Visa News
Government to distribute state land for the landless
BANGKOK: — The government plans to allocate about 195,000 rai of state land in 47 provinces for landless poor so they will have a land plot to build a living quarter and to make a living
By: Sumit Chaturvedi
Date: May 4th 2016
Source: F. India / Indiaspend.org
Almost three decades ago in 1990, Radheshyam, 49, was given half an acre of farm land free, taken away from a landlord as part of what was then a 40-year-old state law that allows distribution of such land to the poor.
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