News on Land

Planning and International Cooperation Minister said on Thursday that achieving food security in Yemen is the government's most significant priority, adding that providing food sources comes first of the government's interests.

During his meeting with Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Food Security and Nutrition David Nabarro, Mohammed al-Sa'adi praised the cooperation offered by many regional and international organizations to help Yemen alleviate the repercussions of the humanitarian and health situations generated by the food problem.

Author: Matthew Ponsford
Date: May 27th, 2016
Source: place.trust.org

Award-winning Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena wants city governments worldwide to stop fighting urban migration and look to Latin America's sprawling slums as inspiration for new housing.

The winner of the 2016 Pritzker, regarded as the Nobel Prize of architecture, Aravena says the vast 'favelas' in cities such as Rio de Janeiro highlight human resilience and the instinctive capacity for home-building.

Governments in Central America rely on speedboats, surveillance planes, and militarized police forces to fight drug trafficking that has ravaged the isthmus in recent years. But a low-tech solution might offer another way to prevent smugglers: bolstering indigenous land rights.

By: VNS
Date: June 12th 2016
Source: Vietnam.net Bridge

The Arab Spring uprisings have released a flood of land and property conflicts, brought about by decades of autocratic rule. Expropriations, corruption, poor performance of the rule of law, patronage and sectarian discrimination built up a wide variety of land and property transgressions over approximately 30 years. The result has been the creation of longstanding, acute grievances among large components of national populations who now seek to act on them.

New industrial projects in Assam are facing land crunch. Non availability of land for industrial activity in Assam has locked in projects worth Rs 4000 Crore in Assam. 

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GUWAHATI: Changing stand after the Lok Sabha poll debacle, congress ruled Assam has relaxed the norms allowing transfer and non agricultural activity in agricultural land where no farming activity is taking place. 

New industrial projects in Assam are facing land crunch. Non availability of land for industrial activity in Assam has locked in projects worth Rs 4000 Crore in Assam. 

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Author: Ange Aboa

Ivorian security forces have driven thousands of cocoa farmers out of a national park this week at the start of an operation to preserve the refuge for endangered chimpanzees and forest elephants, a government source and locals said on Thursday.

La Ruta de Aprendizaje sobre “Herramientas y enfoques innovadores para asegurar los derechos de las mujeres a la tierra” fue organizado por la Iniciativa Derechos de las Mujeres a la Tierra de la Coalición Internacional para el Acceso a la Tierra (ILC) y Procasur en Ruanda y Burundi en febrero de 2014.

By: Star Country Desk

Date: August 10th 2016

Source: The Daily Star

Ethnic minorities in Bangladesh observed the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples yesterday with a call for recognising them as indigenous people in the constitution.

Speakers at the programmes in different districts urged the government to ensure their education, health, land and social rights.