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Ghana: Land grabbing may pose threat to achieving SDGs
By: Michael Sena Dzansi
Date: October 11th 2016
Source: News Ghana
CARITAS Ghana has stated that though Ghana has adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the new global framework for development, the country faces the risk of failing to attain some of these goals due to the negative impact of land grabbing throughout the country.
South Africa: 50 Communities to challenge the Restitution of Land Rights Act
Date: February 15th 2016
Source: SABC
Civil Society will head to the Constitutional Court in Braamfontein to challenge the Restitution of Land Rights Amendment Act on Tuesday.
The Act re-opened the land restitution process for another five years.
50 communities will hold a night vigil at the Constitutional Court to voice their disapproval of the timing of the new process.
Sri Lanka: Deeds pertaining to property rights, gender inequality and discrimination
By: Kamanthi Wickramasinghe
Date: November 2nd 2016
Source: Daily Mirror
The law relating to land rights and land contracts in Sri Lanka have been embedded in a complex web of statutes that existed since the year 1863. This was during the colonial rule, a period in which the patriarchal system prevailed.
Agriculture victim of and solution to climate change
By: Isabel Malsang
Date: November 13th 2016
Source: AFP
Paris (AFP) - Diplomatic wrangling this week will make the headlines in the fight against climate change, but experts say a bigger but largely unseen battle is set to unfold on the world's farms.
Agriculture holds the double distinction of being highly vulnerable to climate change but also offering a solution to the problem, they say.
Philippines: Basilan farmers acquire lands fought for 17 years
By: By John Unson
Date: March 2nd 2016
Source: Philstar.com
COTABATO CITY, Philippines – It was a tedious and expensive 17-year uphill struggle for land ownership they will never ever forget.
The 54 peasants who fought it out had finally been grouped Tuesday into a communal bloc, the Maloong-Canal Farmers Agrarian Reform Multi-Purpose Cooperative, as a positive aftermath of a battle stymied by lack of money and connections.
Report: Progress Can Kill
By: Silvia Ceriani
Date: March 9th 2016
Source: Slowfood.com