News on Land

By: Matthew Ponsford

Date: April 24th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A year after the deadly earthquake in Nepal, thousands of people, especially women, are being deprived of funds to rebuild because they do not own land or cannot prove they owned the land where they lived, Oxfam said on Friday.

Women farmers in three districts of the Upper West region have expressed concern about the total absence of land rights for them despite their zeal to increase food production and family incomes.

By: Danica Lo

Date: September 23rd 2016

Source: Food and Wine

Crowdsourcing and contracts help smallholder farmers in Ghana and Kenya.

By: Apoorva Joshi

Date: May 5th 2016

Source: Mongabay.com

Meanwhile, dozens of NGOs urge removal of its parent company, United Cacao, from the London Stock Exchange amid legality issues.

• Plantaciones de Pucallpa is one of several industrial agriculture companies operating in Peru. It has been developing a palm oil plantation over the last several years.

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.

By: Megan Rowling

Date: May 26th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

 

The risk of disasters hitting fast-growing cities is rising, so what are governments doing to protect residents?

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.

 

By:  Andy White, Rights and Resources Initiative

Date: Thomson Reuters Foundation

A wave of progress in recognising local people's land rights is at risk of becoming just another blip on the radar

Residential properties in Fernhurst, West Sussex in the area that was proposed for shale gas exploration by Celtique Energy.- - -

By: Kieran Guilbert
Date: November 1st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

FREETOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When floods struck several slums across Sierra Leone's capital last year, 55-year-old Amienata Bangura was forced to flee as her small shop, stock and years of savings were wiped out.