27 February 2017
By:MOHAMMAD HUSSAIN KHAN
Date: February 2017
Source: Dawn
SHRINKING riverine and inland forests have significantly reduced production and supply of wood required for soil fertility, livestock’s fodder, firewood and a growing furniture market.
27 February 2017
Date: 27 February 2017
Source: New China
In Namibia's northern Omusati region, Esra Kuutumbeni toils on her pearl millet field as she hopes for improved yields of the staple crop, following a dry spell the preceding year.
"I wake up early to work on my field to ensure that weeds do not
27 February 2017
Date: 27 Febraury 2017
Source: The Washington Post
27 February 2017
Date: 27 February 2017
Source: Reliefweb
27 February 2017
By: By Alisa Tang and Prak Chan Thul
Date: 24 February 2017
Source: Reuters
Even before a Cambodian judge sentenced land rights activist Tep Vanny to jail, her fellow campaigners said her fate had already been sealed.
23 February 2017
Date: 23 February 2017
Source: Gulf Times
Some 350 farmers from Myanmar's Mandalay region are facing court cases related to land-grabbing, most of them brought since Aung San Suu Kyi's government took power a year ago, lawyers and activists said Thursday.
23 February 2017
Date: 23 February 2017
Source: UNPO
23 February 2017
Date: 23 February 2017
Source: The Irish Times
Honduras is the deadliest country on Earth to be a defender of environmental rights with conflict over mining, hydropower and agribusiness leading to the deaths of many people from indigenous groups and rural communities, the Global Witness charity
20 February 2017
By: Mithilesh Yadav
Date: 20 December 2017
Source: My Republica
19 January 2017
By: Bernardo Almeida, Todd Wassel
Date: 18 January 2017
Aource: The Asian Foundation
9 April 2015
Together with ICLEI President Park Wonsoon (Mayor of Seoul), ICLEI First Vice President James Nxumalo (Mayor of Durban) and ICLEI Secretary General Gino Van Begin, 100 mayors from around the world were onstage at today´s ICLEI World Congress 2015 Opening Plenary to adopt the Seoul Declaration.
Written by Thierry Berger and Lorenzo Cotula from IIED, this short report summarises comments and recommendations on the draft land Code in Chad (January 2014 version). In addition to an analysis of the draft Code in light of international trends, this note draws on earlier reports concerning the