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Cameroon's nomads put hopes in land rights
Cameroon is working on land reforms that could offer a lifeline to the Mbororo people. As land use intensifies, the nomads are increasingly subject to persecution and attacks on their cattle.
Adamou Harouna's herd of cattle grazes on lush green vegetation in Ndop, a small village in Cameroon's northwest. The cattle herder is one the country's 2.5 million Mbororo people.
Brazil urged to expand land rental market but small farmers aren't convinced
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 8th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Under rental agreements, small-scale landowners retain their title deeds, but larger companies with access to capital and machinery pay for the right to use the land to grow their crops
Colombia law fails to put land back in farmers' hands
New Urban Agenda good on ‘what’ but not on ‘how’, critics warn
By: Greg Scruggs
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Citiscope
The Habitat III strategy ‘doesn’t go far enough on financing’, one observer noted at an event on the eve of the U.N. General Assembly.
Struggle against mining violations leaves activists exposed
Authors: Sutharee Wannasiri & Kingsley Abbott
Date: June 5th, 2016
Source: Bangkok Post
Late in the evening of May 15, 2014, more than 100 men, most of them armed and wearing black masks, stormed a small village in Loei province and assaulted more than a dozen men and women who opposed a local copper and gold mine.
How far the international community has come on land rights ?
Ghana to lose over $3m project over land dispute
By: Eliasu Tanko
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: STARRFM Online
A longstanding land dispute which continues to brew raw tensions in the Bole district of the Northern region has threatened the survival of a $3,139,383 poverty alleviation project.
The project, Babator Irrigated Farming Hub, an initiative of the Africa Agriculture Development Company (AgDevCo) a social impact investor and project in Agriculture sector missioned to reduce poverty, hunger, under-nutrition and improve food security.
International Financial Capital Targets Farmland in Brazil
By: Maria Luisa Mendonça
Date: June 19th 2016
Source: TeleSUR English
Land speculation stimulates the expansion of plantations across Brazil, increasing land conflicts and displacement of campesino and Indigenous communities.
