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Drones Can Be Used To Enforce Property Rights
Drones have become a revolutionary tool in the defense of property rights of disenfranchised people
When most people imagine what a drone expert looks like, more than likely they see a scene from TV or a film of a drone strike: a man in front of a screen controlling a joystick and then, an explosion. They almost certainly do not imagine Gregor MacLennan.
India: Rawat calls for action against illegal land grab by ashrams
By: Darshan Kunwar|
Date: August 25th 2016
Source: Times of India
DEHRADUN: Chief minister Harish Rawat has directed top officials across the state to identify those responsible for grabbing the state government land illegally to expand ashrams, especially in holy places like Haridwar, and initiating action against them.
The Amazon tribe protecting the forest with bows, arrows, GPS and camera traps
By: Jonathan Watts
With authorities ineffective, the 2,200-strong Ka’apor, in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, are taking on the illegal loggers with technology and direct action.
India nearly doubles budget for digitisation of land records
By: Rina Chandran
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India will nearly double the budget and extend the deadline for a programme to digitise land records as states struggle to survey land and property, large chunks of which have not been mapped in a century, a senior official said.
We Are the Solution: African Women Organize for Land and Seed Sovereignty
Written by Simone Adler and Beverly Bell
Published: 10 November 2015
From an Interview with Mariama Sonko
Mariama Sonko is a farmer and organizer in Casamance, Senegal. She is the National Coordinator of We Are the Solution, a campaign for food sovereignty led by rural women in West Africa.
Vietnam Jails an Activist as Hanoi Grabs More Land
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.
Toledo Maya snag 2015 Equator Prize in land rights
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Dec. 7, 2015–The Maya Leaders Alliance (MLA) and Toledo Alcaldes Association (TAA) today received recognition in Paris, France, as the 2015 recipients of the prestigious Equator Prize in land rights, as part of the Climate Change Conference.
The award was received by MLA spokesperson, Cristina Coc, and MLA chair, Alfonso Cal.
Ahead of the peace vote, Colombia's displaced slum dwellers dream of home
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: September 27th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
ALTOS DE FLORIDA, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The ramshackle community of Altos de Florida and others slums dotted across the windswept hills on the outskirts of Bogota stretch to the horizon.