News on Land

By: Shinovene Immanuel

Date: November 14th 2016

Source: The Namibian

FOREIGN nationals will no longer be allowed to own agricultural, commercial and communal land if a proposed law tabled last week by lands minister Utoni Nujoma is passed in parliament.

Details on how government plans to ban foreign land ownership are contained in the Land Bill of 2016 tabled by Nujoma in the National Assembly last Thursday. 

By: EFE

Date: January 13, 2016

Source: Fox News Latino

Belizean Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister Vanessa Retreage has officially appointed members of the Toledo Maya Land Rights Commission to implement the Caribbean Court of Justice's consent order for protecting the land rights of indigenous peoples.

By:Anastasia Moloney

Date: November 28, 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

 

BOGOTA, Nov 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Water shortages caused by Bolivia's worst drought in 25 years have been exacerbated by booming population growth in cities, poor infrastructure and the impact of big agricultural plantations and mining projects, campaigners say.

Date: February 1st 2016

Source: The Hans India

Karimnagar: The Tribal people of Telangana agency areas are facing legal problems and police harassment for cultivating the forest lands as they are still not given rights over the lands that rightfully belong to them. 

Water shortages caused by Bolivia's worst drought in 25 years have been exacerbated by booming population growth in cities, poor infrastructure and the impact of big agricultural plantations and mining projects, campaigners say.

Bolivia declared a national state of emergency last week as a prolonged drought has decimated crop harvests and cattle, affecting more than 177,000 families across the country.

[From All Africa.com] Mananjary — Legal aid clinics are playing an important role during Madagascar's current political and economic crisis, especially for poverty-hit rural women who are under-served by the country's ailing judicial system.

By: Mas de 131 / Glenn Bower (English translation)

Date: February 7th 2016

Source: Globalvoices.org

Huitzizilapan, whose old name is N'dete, which means “big town”, currently encompasses 12 indigenous Otomí-Ñätho communities living in the area between the two large cities of Mexico City and Toluca.

By: Moniroth Morm

Date: January 5th 2017

Source: Radio Free Asia

Cambodia’s environmental minister claimed this week that problems stemming from the country’s economic land concessions were solved, a notion that was called into question by a civil society organization that monitors land issues in the Southeast Asian country.

[I invite you also to visit the FAO website, where you can find the final draft of the Voluntary Guidelines (English), as well as the

By: Channels Television

Date: February 16th 2016

Source: Channels Tv.com

It may not be business as usual for land grabbers in Ogun State, South West Nigeria whose activities have been responsible for many deaths and breakdown of law and order.

The Police authority in that state has reiterated its commitment to move against the practice by those popularly referred to as “omo onile”.