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Act On It! Four key steps to stop land grabs
Over the past 15 years, tens of millions of hectares of land have been acquired by large investors in developing countries. The Land Matrix documented 1,037 transnational land deals covering 37,842,371 hectares during this period, while many more deals remain undocumented.1 This global land rush is causing widespread forced evictions and denial of access to key land and natural resources for millions of women, small- scale food producers, pastoralists, gatherers, forest dwellers, fisherfolk, and tribal and indigenous peoples.
CALL FOR PRE-PROPOSALS: SANDEE Autumn 2011 Research Competition
Strengthening African CSOs for Improved Natural Resource Governance & Conservation
African organizations working to improve natural resource management have made great gains, but face serious challenges that limit their efforts to grow and sustain their impact. This short video provides an overview of the challenges they face and provides recommendations for addressing these issues.
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Ordinary Zambians grapple with land grabbing
Forced evictions of ordinary Zambians from their land have become rampant to pave way for development. Rights activists want to intervene and protect local people from land grabbers.
Land grabbing is on the increase
The Land Portal Foundation Seeks a Web & Linked Data Developer
Organizational profile
The Land Portal foundation is a non-profit organization headquartered in Groningen, the Netherlands.
Launched in March 2011 as a global hub for access land information the Land Portal allows for the collection, sourcing, and searching of otherwise fragmented and inaccessible data and information on land governance and land use from diverse sources, produced by governments, academia, international organizations, indigenous peoples and NGOs. The Land Portal brings together content from over 70 partner organisations.
China’s Interest in Farmland Makes Brazil Uneasy
New York Times
By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
Published: May 26, 2011
When the Chinese came looking for more soybeans here in Uruacu last year, they inquired about buying land — lots of it. Officials in this farming area would not sell the hundreds of thousands of acres needed. Undeterred, the Chinese pursued a different strategy: providing credit to farmers and potentially tripling the soybeans grown here to feed chickens and hogs back in China. Click here for full article.
Tanzania: Address Land Conflicts Now, Premier Urges
Dar es Salaam — Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa has told regional and district commissioners to address land conflicts in their areas.
The PM issued the directive yesterday in Lindi when he was speaking to the region's authorities on his arrival in Ruangwa.
"Land is a property of the government, but areas which are being used for various activities of development should not be used as a source of conflicts among the people we lead," he said.
Philippines: Farmers start life as owners of land
By: Delfin T. Mallari Jr.
Date: January 28th 2016
Source: Inquirer Southern Luzon
It was a new day for farmers in an estate in Quezon province who had long been struggling to own the land they were tilling.
For the first time in their lives, farmers in the controversial Hacienda Matias in Quezon were able to keep the income from their harvests.