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Displaying 1931 - 1940 of 2403'All we ask is for is our land back': Uganda's Bugala Island farmers
By: Evelyn Lirri
Date: June 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BUGALA ISLAND, Uganda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mariam Nakakeeto listened quietly to the grievances of fellow farmers gathered outside the grounds of a local church on Bugala Island, by the shores of Lake Victoria.
International Financial Capital Targets Farmland in Brazil
By: Maria Luisa Mendonça
Date: June 19th 2016
Source: TeleSUR English
Land speculation stimulates the expansion of plantations across Brazil, increasing land conflicts and displacement of campesino and Indigenous communities.
Bill Kayong was a “fearless” advocate of native land rights, says Baru Bian
By: Sharon Ling
Date: June 21st 2016
Source: The Star Online
KUCHING: PKR politician Bill Kayong, who was shot dead in Miri on Tuesday morning, was a “fearless” advocate of native land rights.
Sarawak PKR chairman Baru Bian (pic) said Kayong, 43, was a vocal activist for Sarawak’s indigenous communities and passionate about their rights.
The global farmland grab in 2016: how big, how bad?
Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, which put the issue on the international agenda, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world.
Brazil indigenous community faces imminent eviction over land dispute: Amnesty
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: June 14th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - An indigenous community in southwestern Brazil faces imminent eviction from its traditional territories, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, in a case exemplifying ongoing land conflicts in South America's largest country.
Nigeria: Involvement Of Youths In Agriculture Key To Food Security
By: Ruth Tene Natsa
Date: June 15th 2016
Source: The Leadership
One of the key challenges to the development of the nation’s agro sector is the country’s ageing farming population. Ruth Tene Natsa writes on the need to encourage youths to go into agriculture as a business.
Report Finds Big Ag's Global Land Grab Expanding to New Frontiers
By: Deirdre Fulton
Date: June 14th 2016
Source: Common Dreams
While 'food security-driven land grabbing' has subsided in recent years, 'plain old profit-driven agribusiness expansion is now the dominant agenda'
Big Ag's global land grab is huge, growing, and "extending its reach to new frontiers," according to a new report from the international non-profit GRAIN.
FACTBOX-U.N. guidelines on food security, small farmers and land deals
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: June 14th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The guidelines aim to ensure small farmers are consulted about land deals that affect their property
2013 CSO land reform monitoring report: Reclaiming our rights to land
This report is a summary of the 2013 CSO Land Reform Monitoring papers in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, and the Philippines. It focuses on land conflicts including killings, harassments, land-related detainments, and evictions experienced in the seven countries. It also includes interventions and principles which ANGOC and LWA call for the government and institutions to adhere to in addressing such issues.
Policy brief: delivering Women farmers' right
The 2003 Maputo Declaration on Food and Agriculture committed signatory countries across Africa to a 10% allocation of national budgets to agriculture by 2008. To bolster the implementation of this commitment, the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) was established. But 12 years later, the situation for women smallholder farmers across Africa has hardly changed.