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Displaying 1981 - 1990 of 2403India's urbanization likely to be 60% in 3 decades: Panagariya
Date: April 27th 2016
Source: Times of India
NEW DELHI: India's urbanization may double to over 60 per cent in 30 years assuming that economic growth remains at 7-9 per cent level, Niti Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya said on Wednesday.
South Africa: Commission On Restitution of Land Rights On Land Claims Mobile Offices
By: South African government (press release)
Date: April 25th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / South African Government
PRESS RELEASE
Thousands of rural communities reached through restitution mobile offices
Ghana: New Land Act will protect gender rights – Minister
Date: April 26th 2016
Source: Ghana Business News
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources through the Land Administration Project (LAP) is incorporating gender land right issues into the New Draft Land Bill to protect the interest of the vulnerable in society.
Africa: German Scholarships Boost African Expertise in Land Governance
Date: April 26th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Addis Fortune
The German government's Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa (NELGA) programme has granted African students first phase scholarships in land governance in a bid to improve land administration and tenure systems on the continent.
India’s luxury investments will ramp up homelessness, UN expert warns
By: Emma Rumney
Date: April 25th 2016
Source: Public Finance International
India’s government seems “reluctant” to solve its affordable urban housing crisis, with luxury real estate and development projects prioritised over the housing needs of poorer people, a United Nations expert has warned.
Securing communal land rights for Tanzania's Indigenous Peoples
By: Sophie Morlin-Yron
Date: April 25th 2016
Source: The Ecologist
Commuting between land rights negotiations in the city and herding goats on the plains, Edward Loure is at once a traditional Maasai and a modern urbanite, writes Sophie Morlin-Yron. That ability to straddle the two very different worlds he inhabits has been key to his success at having 200,000 acres of land registered into village and community ownership - and his own 2016 Goldman Prize.
One year of Nepal quake: Thousands yet to get funds to rebuild
By: Shubham Ghosh
Date: April 25th 2016
Source: One India
Kathmandu, April 25: A year has lapsed since a devastating earthquake left Nepal in the ruins but still several people, particularly the women, are yet to get funds to rebuild their lost property for they do not own land and neither can prove the ownership of the land where they lived, international anti-poverty organisation Oxfam informed last week.
Land rights crucial to save tropical forests – UNDP
By: Alex Kirby
Date: April 26th 2016
Source: Climate Change News
Researchers highlight importance of carbon-sucking forests alongside New York climate deal signing ceremony
The world’s tropical forests are a key part of slowing climate change, and ensuring indigenous peoples have land rights is essential to protecting them, US-based researchers say.
Forest lands and indigenous people 'increasingly insecure’ as Paris Agreement signed
By: Rebecca Myles
Date: April 22nd 2016
Source: RT
Representatives from 155 countries are in New York to sign a climate-change agreement to limit the rise in global temperatures. Forest-dwelling indigenous peoples claim the pact ignores them and that they face assaults when trying to protect their land.