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Asamblea Nacional aprueba la Ley de Tierras
La Asamblea Nacional se allanó a 16 de las 18 objeciones presentadas por el Ejecutivo a la Ley de Tierras Rurales y Territorios Ancestrales, aprobada en enero. Esta ahora podrá entrar al Registro Oficial para ser promulgada.
La norma busca garantizar la redistribución de la tierra productiva para los campesinos sin tierra, con poca tierra o que tienen de mala calidad. Para ello, se crea el Fondo Nacional de Tierras y se establece créditos e incentivos para la producción.
Kenya: Policy to Regulate Land Use Being Developed, Kaimenyi Says
By: Ouma Wanzala
Date: March 18th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
The government is in the process of developing a national land use policy to regulate the planning and use of land for sustainable development, Land Cabinet Secretary Jacob Kaimenyi has said.
Prof Kaimenyi observed that sound land governance is fundamental in achieving sustainable development and poverty reduction.
Release dates for the Observatory
January 28, 2013
The Land Observatory will make publicly available a first version of the tool for the beginning of February.
Bangladesh: "Protect ethnic minorities from land grabbers"
By: Our Correspondent
Date: March 29th 2016
Source: Daily Star
Demands human chain in Parbatipur town
The ethnic minority people formed a human chain near Shaheed Minar in Parbatipur upazila town under the district yesterday, urging the government to take initiative to stop torture and repression on them.
International Land Coalition Facility Supports Innovative and High Impact Interventions
The International Land Coalition announces a new initiative called the Facility in Support of Innovative and High Impact Targeted Interventions on the ground (FTI). This facility builds on the experience gained through a previous programme, ILCs Community Empowerment Facility (CEF), ‘which supported 52 small projects led by civil society organizations to apply innovative approaches that help the rural poor gain access to and control over land and other natural resources (for a total amount of USD3.5 million during the 1999-2009 period.
India: Issues of land and landlessness echo in Adivasi hamlets in Kerala as elections draw near
By: TA Ameerudheen
Date: April 6th 2016
Source: Scroll in
Advasis, one of the most marginalised communities in the state, feel successive governments have failed to keep their promises on the redistribution of land.
Land 'grab' realities, perceptions vary markedly - researcher
Salupongan International: Fighting for the rights of indigenous people
By: Malou Liwanag-Bledsoe
Date: April 21st 2016
Source: Asian Journal
ALTHOUGH the conflict between the Philippine government and the communist rebels in Mindanao has been a long problem that has affected thousands of indigenous people in the area, not many are aware that another issue that is facing them is the violation of their human rights, specifically the displacement and environmental degradation that is facing their ancestral land.
Statement on Rural Women’s Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition
Both an oral and a written statement have been submitted by FIAN International, on behalf of 14 organizations advocating for the economic, social, and cultural rights of women in rural communities, to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on its General Discussion on Rural Women, 56th Session, on October 7, 2013.
Land titles for farmers help cut Brazil's forest loss: scientist
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: May 4th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brazil should speed up its program to grant small farmers formal land ownership to slow down the rate of logging and deforestation, a leading scientist said.