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Displaying 2211 - 2220 of 2403Namibia: Big Brother watching rangeland conditions
By: New Era Staff Reporter
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: New Era
Windhoek - The European Union (EU) Rangeland Monitoring Project is just one of many facets of the Namibia Rangeland Management Policy and Strategy.
India: HP Cabinet okays land rights to houses built on encroachment
By: Press Trust of India
Date: February 17th 2016
Source: Business Standard
After the implementation of the decision, decks would be cleared for regularisation of encroachments on land.
Clouds Gather Over Bolivia’s Change Process as US Intervenes
By: W. T. WHITNEY
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: Counterpunch
Progressive political movements in Venezuela, Argentina, and Brazil have recently encountered reverses. Bolivian President Evo Morales is his country’s longest serving president and first indigenous one. Now his 10 – year old socialist and anti-imperialist government faces a hurdle.
Indonesia: Young farmers seen as key to national food security
By: Arya Dipa
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: Jakarta Post
An architect by training, 26-year-old Ronaldiaz Hartantyo has decided to make a living as a farmer, a career choice most Indonesian people of his age would never think of.
Affordable Housing: India’s challenge Of Disordered Urbanization
By: Manish Kumar
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: India Infoline News Service
About 377 million people from India’s total population of 1.21 billion are urban dwellers. With more than 10 million people migrating to cities and towns every year, the total urban population is expected to reach about 600 million by 2031.
Zimbabwe: Mugabe regime turns against land grab beneficiaries
By: Correspondent
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: Zim Daily
ZIMBABWE – Zimbabwe’s government has reportedly sent eviction notices to at least 90 people who benefited from the country’s controversial land reform programme.
The affected beneficiaries – “flourishing” tobacco and crops farmers – were from the south west of the country’s capital Harare.
They received the farms at the height of the country’s land reform programme in 2002.
India: LAND ENCROACHED ON FOR 8 YRS; AUTHORITIES DID NOTHING
By: Chetan R, Bangalore Mirror Bureau
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: Bangalore Mirror
In a curious case, a routine hearing at the state information commission on denial of information exposed a 20-acre land grabbing case in the real estate hotbed of Doddaballapur.
Nigeria: Ogun Police Read Riot Act On Land Grabbing Activities
By: Channels Television
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: Channels Tv.com
It may not be business as usual for land grabbers in Ogun State, South West Nigeria whose activities have been responsible for many deaths and breakdown of law and order.
The Police authority in that state has reiterated its commitment to move against the practice by those popularly referred to as “omo onile”.
India: Senior citizens take battle to land sharks
By: TNN
Date: February 16th 2016
Source: The Times of India
CHENNAI: A small plot of land Bagwati Sundar, a senior citizen living in Tambaram, bought in 1986 near Hindu College was safe, ironically, only till the state government showed interest in acquiring it.
Tanzania: New Rights Group Comes Aboard
By: Ludovick Kazoka
Date: February 15th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News
Human rights activists have launched a coalition, Mama Ardhi Alliance, with the aim of advocating for the amendments of the existing laws which are still infringing upon women's rights denying equal access to ownership of land and property.