A court has ruled that companies must first seek permission from local communities if they plan to mine on their ancestral land. This represents a new achievement in land and mining rights for South Africa.
Authors: Sutharee Wannasiri & Kingsley Abbott
Date: June 5th, 2016
Source: Bangkok Post
Late in the evening of May 15, 2014, more than 100 men, most of them armed and wearing black masks, stormed a small village in Loei province and assaulted more than a dozen men and women who opposed a
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: 13 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Getting rid of mines in Colombia - a land of mountains and jungle terrain - is a key challenge facing the battered nation and is a crucial for rural development and tackling poverty.
It's a task experts estimate
By: Hanna Hindstrom
Date: September 2nd 2016
Source: the Diplomat
Economic development must not come at the expense of those less fortunate.
By: Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres
Date: October 31st 2016
Source: Mongabay
Venezuela has invited foreign companies to play a leading role in developing the Orinoco Mining Arc, potentially opening 12 percent of the country to mining interests, and endangering forests, rivers, national parks and
By: Mary Catherine O'Connor
Date: 14 January 2017
Source: The Guardian
The outdoor industry is leading the fight to protect America’s public lands from being developed for gas and oil.
By: Camilla Capasso
Date: January 28th 2016
Source: Latin Correspondent
Esperanza Salazar is a fighter. You can tell by the way she keeps her chin up when she explains why she had to leave Mexico and move to Canada, why she can’t return home.
By: Fergus Jensen
Date: 4 July 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Thousands of mines are closing in Indonesia's tropical coal belt as prices languish and seams run dry. But almost none of the companies have paid their share of billions of dollars owed to repair the badly scarred
Published today in the Mokoro newsletter online, an article from Mokoro Associate and WOLTS team member Roman Moges Asefaha.
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: Lisa Nikolau
Date: December 21st 2016
Source: Humanosphere
An indigenous group in northeast Ecuador said it has detained 11 government soldiers who were traveling through its territory in a canoe amid an ongoing dispute with the government over land rights.
November 22, 2012
We spent this week with Peruvian partners in co-development and training sessions, hosted by CEPES. This is a data-rich and data-diverse environment, where partners prefer to refer to "land transactions" than "land deals". Often land titles are traded between Peruvian investors