By: Caroline Moser
Date: October 6th 2016
Source: Next City
On October 17, the Habitat III conference opens in Quito, Ecuador. Its primary objective is for UN member states to adopt the New Urban Agenda (NUA), reflect on the agreements reached, and elaborate on policy and planning processes for
By: Fabiana Frayssinet
Date: October 13th 2016
Source: IPS News
EL PATO, Argentina, Oct 13 2016 (IPS) - Her seven children have grown up, but she now takes care of a young grandson while working in her organic vegetable garden in El Pato, south of the city of Buenos Aires. Olga Campos wants for
[From AWID] FRIDAY FILE: In Africa land rights are critical to economic power.
Published today in the Mokoro newsletter online, an article from Mokoro Associate and WOLTS team member Roman Moges Asefaha.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
By: Caroline Wambui
Tabitha Karimi could barely hide her delight at the thought of a bumper harvest as she took part in training on how to farm with crops specially adapted to the region, after many years of poor harvests in Tharaka in eastern Kenya.
By: Filbert Rweyemamu
Date: August 14th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
Arusha — Women from marginalized communities in Africa will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in order to raise awareness about land rights this October.
Programme manager of the Tanzania Gender Network Programme (TGNP) Grace
Date: December 6, 2016
Source: Land Rights Now
“We live right next to the plantation and the guards are always passing the house. They shout at us, they scare the children, they insult me and threaten that they will shoot me. The children don’t want to go to school any more. They threw tear gas at
By: Seth J. Bokpe
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: Graphic.com
Ghana needs to regulate and limit the size of land companies can acquire for any purposes, including real estate and agriculture.
This was the view of participants in a workshop to disseminate the findings of a research on large-
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 29 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Anjali has worked on the land nearly all her life, first with her tenant-farmer parents, and then alongside her husband in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
But she has never owned land - a right she has been
By: Luke Bisani
Date: 18 September 2016
Source: Malawi24
Women across Africa have been mobilised to call on leaders on the continent to address land rights issues as one way of achieving sustainable development.
The call comes at time when women in rural areas of Africa are seen as having no piece
By: Shadrack Kavilu and Justus Wanzala
Date: 17 January 2017
Source: Reuters
When the Kenyan government announced five years ago that coal deposits had been found in the Mui Basin, a land of rolling hills and pristine forests east of Nairobi, local farmers hoped the discovery would help
By: Annie Gowen
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: The Washington Post
INDIA’S DIVIDE | This is part of a series about oppression and violence against women in India as a rising generation collides with old social mores.