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Kenya: Coast Leaders Retreat to Address Land Problems
Implement native courts alongside civil system, Dayak land rights forum urges
By: Sulok Tawie
Date: 7 January 2017
Source: Malaymail Online
A Dayak native customary rights (NCR) land forum today called on the state government to constitute a native court system which runs parallel with the civil court.
FAO recognizes La Via Campesina's crucial role as the major international small food producer's organisation
(Rome, 4 October 2013)
Today, during a meeting between La Via Campesina and FAO's Director general Jose Graziano da Silva an agreement of cooperation was formalized which acknowledged the essential role played by small holder food producers. Their role was recognised as most important in the eradication of world hunger.
Paraguay battles over land rights in the courts and across the airwaves
By: Toby Stirling Hill
Date: May 3rd 2016
Source: The Guardian
As soya companies appropriate land in Paraguay, many small-scale campesino farmers are forced out to cities. For those who stay to fight for their land, the conflict can turn bloody
Land-grabbing now prevails in ‘Yolanda’ disaster areas
Lucknow, Warangal among 13 smart cities announced by Indian government
Source: The Hindu
Date: May 25, 2016
Seven more capital cities, including Bengaluru, allowed to enter the smart city competition
The Union government on Tuesday announced the names of 13 more cities that will be developed under the Centre’s “Smart City Mission.” Lucknow in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh tops the list, followed by Warangal in Telangana and Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh.
Here's why foreign investors are trying to buy American farmland
Tribes that inspired Oscar-nominated Colombian film fear destruction within a generation
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Author: Matthew Ponsford
Picture: Andres Cordoba; A photograph taken during the filming of Colombia's Best Foreign Language Film nominee "Embrace of the Serpent" shows Antonio Bolivar as the protagonist Karamakate, the last surviving member of an Colombian Amazonian tribe.
Editing by Paola Totaro.
Friday 10 June : 15:06
Tribes that inspired Oscar-nominated Colombian film fear destruction within a generation - director
Samburu residents protest alleged land grabbing by a private developer - Kenya
Residents in Loosuk Samburu County held demonstrations over a piece of land stretching for one kilometer that they claim is being grabbed by a private investor. they claimed that the land is ancestral and they had inherited it rightfully pointing out that the private investor had bribed his way into owning the land. the residents further sent out a stern warning to the county government’s officials in charge of land that they will take matters into their own hands should the they fail to respond to their complaints.
New research funded on protecting the vulnerable in urban humanitarian crises
Date: 23 June 2016
Source: iied
Seven research projects will receive funding to study how to assist vulnerable urban groups facing humanitarian crises, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has announced