Date: 9 December 2016 Source:NewVision In many of the landing sites such as Nangoma, Bulebi, Kiziru and others, residents are not allowed to re-build their grass-thatched houses for fear that they will catch fire and cause further destruction but they do not offer them any other option of

By: Kann Vicheika Date: August 5th 2016 Source: VOA Khmer The protesters from six villages in Koh Kong’s Sre Ambel and Botum Sakor districts claim that Koh Kong Sugar and Koh Kong Plantation encroached on their farmland.

Democratic Republic of Congo to disclose large-scale agricultural contracts In partnership with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, documents will be available via a new online repository

RANGOON – Around 100 Sittwe residents called for the resignation of the Arakan State parliament speaker in a Tuesday protest over unresolved cases of land confiscation, rally participants told The Irrawaddy. The land grabs in question date as far back as the early 1990s, when Burma was governed

By: Karin Goodwin Date: August 14th 2016 Source: Herald Scotland THE SCOTTISH Government must stop giving “carte blanche” to rich industrialists who are buying up vast swathes of Scotland’s countryside and instead bring about more radical land reform that benefits local communities, according to

By: Esther Yu Hsi Lee Date: October 10th 2016 Source: ThinkProgress About 60 percent of the country’s population is comprised of indigenous people.

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: Alisa Tang Date: November 3rd 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Land conflicts in Myanmar have escalated in recent years, with military and armed groups driving people from their land, and new laws failing to protect farmers, a rights watchdog said

By: Beh Lih Yi Date: September 6th 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation "This research suggests that banks continue to turn a blind eye to the devastating impacts of their financial services" JAKARTA, Sept 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Banks have financed companies responsible for

Date: November 10th 2016 Source: ZimEye EUROPE’S top diplomat in Zimbabwe has expressed concern over a new wave of land expropriations in the country, saying this has slowed down the country’s reform and re-engagement programme.

By: Evelyn Lirri Date: June 19th 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation BUGALA ISLAND, Uganda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mariam Nakakeeto listened quietly to the grievances of fellow farmers gathered outside the grounds of a local church on Bugala Island, by the shores of Lake Victoria.

Date: 20 September 2016 Source: RFA A court in Hanoi sentenced a land rights activist to nearly two years in prison on Tuesday for her role in protesting government-sanctioned evictions that are being used to clear the way for commercial real estate developments in Vietnam.