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Bridging the GAP: The Habitat III strategy ‘is an agenda affecting grass-roots people’
By: Greg Scruggs
Date: September 15th 2016
Source: Citiscope
Community groups want to show next month’s conference that answers begin at the bottom, not at the top.
Job Opportunity at Landesa!
Landesa is looking for a Senior Gender Land Tenure Specialist! Read more details about the vacancy on the Landesa website.
The deadline for applications is on September 21st.
How Technology is Helping Farmers in Ghana
By: Danica Lo
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Food and Wine
Crowdsourcing and contracts help smallholder farmers in Ghana and Kenya.
EMPLOYMENT: FAO Field Programme Officer, Turkey
Villagers in eastern India vow to keep up coal mine protest after four killed
By: Jatindra Dash
Date: October 3rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BHUBANESWAR, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Villagers in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand vowed to continue their protest against a coal mine after four people were killed when police opened fire during clashes at the weekend, forcing a halt to operations at the site.
Property rights and miracle trees: Growing climate-smart agriculture in Zambia
By: Stephen Brooks
04 December 2015
Joseph Zulu never uses the term “climate-smart agriculture,” even as he proudly points out the fertilizer trees he planted between rows of crops on his field in Zambia’s eastern province. But whether he uses the term or not, Zulu is a wonderful example of how climate-smart agriculture can be incorporated into traditional farming environments.
Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility
The Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility invites applications from indigenous peoples’ organizations and communities, as well as organizations that work with them, for grants to fund projects, innovative approaches and partnerships that promote the development of indigenous peoples and help them fulfil their aspirations.
Grants range from US$20,000 to US$50,000. Applicants must meet specific requirements and their proposals should respond to the needs of indigenous peoples in any of IFAD’s developing Member States.
Ireland: Mattie McGrath calls for tax to prevent ‘land-grabbing’
By: Marie O'Halloran
Date: October 12th 2016
Source: The Irish Times
Independent TD accuses horse industry of ‘gobbling up’ huge tracts of lands
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has renewed his call for a tax on land purchases in excess of 750 acres, accusing conglomerates in the horse industry of “gobbling up” huge tracts of land.
Factbox: Haiti six years after the quake - What's changed?
By Anastasia Moloney
Date: Jan 13th, 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, killed more than 200,000 people, leveled much of the capital Port-au-Prince and left 1.5 million Haitians homeless.