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Government launches 'Mero Kitta', NELIS
The government has launched 'Mero Kitta' and Nepal Land Information System (NELIS) in a bid to facilitate realty sector in the country.
The land details from across the country will now be stored in the central server, NELIS.
This will make it easier to access the service provided by the survey offices and get the details of revenue collection, the Department of Survey has stated.
Similarly, with the Mero Kitta (my land), which is an online platform, one can submit land revenue details and print the sketch of his/her plot of land.
‘Complete turnaround’: Philippines’ Duterte lifts ban on new mining permits
- President Rodrigo Duterte has lifted a ban on issuing licenses for new mining operations in the Philippines, marking an about-face from a previous anti-mining stance that saw him ban open-pit mining in 2017 and close or suspend 26 mining operations for environmental violations.
- The government says the industry, which contributed 0.76% to the country’s GDP in 2020, is important in resuscitating an economy bogged down by the COVID-19 pandemic, by generating revenue and jobs and contributing to Duterte’s flagship infrastructure program.
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Cambodia puts its arduous titling process for Indigenous land up for review
- Since 2009, Cambodia has had a legal process by which Indigenous communities can obtain legal title to their traditional land.
- Of around 455 Indigenous communities in Cambodia, 33 have been granted land titles.
- People who have engaged in the Indigenous land titling process say it is time-consuming and arduous, and that even successful claimants are often granted title to just a fraction of their customary land.
Or : au Burkina Faso, trois nouvelles mines vont doper la filière en 2021
Avec 17 mines industrielles exploitées et 60 tonnes produites en 2020, la filière aurifère est en pleine forme malgré les crises sécuritaire et sanitaire.
Pakistan to set up ‘fast-track’ courts to settle land-grabbing cases of overseas Pakistanis
Main photo: Zulfi Bukhari, Special Assistant to PM on Overseas Pakistanis, Afzaal Mahmood, Pakistan Ambassador, Ahmed Shaikhani, President, PBC, Shabbir Merchant, Director PBC, Imran Chaudhry and guests at the PBC reception in Dubai on Sunday. Image Credit: Virendra Saklani/Gulf News
The special courts will decide any property dispute within 30 days, says Bukhari in UAE
Govt Fights Back As Banks Shut Doors On Its 99-Year Farm Leases
THE government has been forced to reintroduce its defunct Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) after financial institutions grouped under the Bankers Association and resolved not to accept the state-issued 99-year farm leases.
Agriculture Minister Anxious Masuka said his government had over the past 10 years held discussions with senior bank executives as they dangled a carrot for the bankers to finance the state issued 99-year farm leases.
The government’s proposal is that the farm leases will enable resettled farmers to access financial loans and boost production.
Zimbabwe: Augur Investments Implicate Mnangagwa, Top Govt Officials in Land Dispute
Augur Investments through its chief operations officer Tatiana Aleshina has implicated President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the land dispute in which the City of Harare entered into agreement with the company.
In a sworn affidavit before the High Court in response to Harare North legislator Norman Markham, Savings Scheme and Jacob Pikicha High Court application (case number HC 425/21) seeking reversal of the agreement, Aleshina implicated the President, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and legal affairs Permanent Secretary Ms Virginia Mabhiza.
Herders Confront a Challenging New Landscape
Dzuds, a weather phenomenon characterized by extreme cold, used to be unusual. Now, they’re becoming the new normal.
DALANZADGAD, UMNUGOVI PROVINCE, MONGOLIA — Clouds gather in the moody winter sky, and the wind picks up. As the temperature plummets, sheep and goats turn from the pasture where they were grazing to huddle in the shelter of a shed.
La Côte d'Ivoire devient le quatrième producteur mondial de caoutchouc naturel, premier africain
Avec un million de tonnes produites par les hévéas ivoiriens, le pays assure 80 % de la production africaine. Un succès obtenu en une décennie à peine, et qui permet à la Cote d'ivoire d'espérer renforcer sa filière de transformation du caoutchouc.
Pakistan's rising housing crunch devours fertile land
Trend of large once green swathes of land turned into concrete jungles in recent years has environmentalists concerned
FAISALABAD, Pakistan
A mounting housing crunch is fast devouring Pakistan's agricultural lands, which may have cascading effects on the country's food security in years to come.
Successful collaboration on AGROVOC: FAO and University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
Since the 1980s, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) manages and publishes the AGROVOC Multilingual Thesaurus, which thematically covers FAO’s areas of interest with more than 39 000 concepts and 800 000 terms organized hierarchically. When launched, AGROVOC was made available in three languages – English, Spanish and French – and its purpose was to serve as a terminology for the indexing of publications in agricultural science and technology.