News on Land

By: HT Correspondent

Date: April 5th 2016

Source: Hindustian Times

To facilitate the process of land reforms across India, the NITI Aayog has formulated a model land leasing law that allows transfer of leased land directly from the tenant, said Arvind Panagariya, vice-chairman of India’s policy thinktank that has replaced the planning commission.

By: IPS
Date: April 13th 2016
Source: Caribbean 360

SANTIAGO, Chile, Thursday April 13, 2016, IPS – Rural women in Latin America continue to face serious obstacles to land tenure, which leave them vulnerable, despite their growing importance in food production and food security.

PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete has refuted claims that the government is a notorious grabber of land from poor subsistence farmers in rural areas.The president was addressing Guelph University community in Canada when he shot down the allegations.Indeed, this claim is unheard of on the home front.

By: Kuzeeko Tjitemisa
Date: April 28th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / New Era

Windhoek — Minister of Land Reform Utoni Nujoma says the shortage of experienced technical and professional staff skilled in the use of geospatial data for good governance is a serious concern, as it constrains his ministry.

Nearly 4,000 of more than 62,000 refugees living in camps in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu have registered to return

BANGKOK, Oct 26 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of Sri Lankan refugees living in India are ready to return to their homeland decades after fleeing civil war, according to a rights group that said returnees will receive a plot of land and other assistance.

The CGIAR Open Access and Data Management Policy, supported unanimously by all 15 members of the CGIAR Consortium, is now in place.&nb

Source: The Guardian

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Brazil's Guarani Indians killing themselves over loss of ancestral land

Arson attacks and eviction at gunpoint for plantations driving many to despair and take their own lives

RANGOON — The Burmese government has acknowledged just a fraction of more than 6,000 land-grab complaints filed with a parliamentary committee, lawmakers say, with a cabinet official telling Parliament this week that total complaints numbered less than 800.

 The Land Workers Alliance gathered yesterday at DEFRA's London HQ to protest at the corrupt relationship between Government and corporate agriculture - and the deliberate marginalisation of small farmers, our most sustainable producers. Ed Hamer explains ...

 

By: Brittany Patterson

Date: 21 June 2016

Source: Scientific American

 

An effort in Ecuador might point the way to a more sustainable future for the rainforest and people

In the lush green rainforest of the Ecuadorean Amazon, members of the Kichwa indigenous group gather well before dawn to drink guayusa tea.