By: T. Ramakrishnan
Date: February 9th 2016
Source: The Hindu
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein also calls for reducing the size of the military force in the North and East to a "less intrusive" level.
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Africa
By: News Ghana
Date: February 9th 2016
Source: News Ghana
The African Union (AU) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have signed an agreement to further strengthen their partnership in support of the Great Green Wall initiative, Africa's flagship initiative to combat land degradation, desertification and drought.
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South Africa
By: Leon Louw
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Business Day Live
WHEN people own their homes they take home tins of paint instead of bottles of brandy. But for many black households a generation after apartheid ended little has changed; they still do not own their homes and kraals. Land dispossession, apartheid’s greatest travesty, lives on.
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Thailand
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Latin American Herald Tribune
BANGKOK – Sea gypsy communities on southern Thailand’s Phuket island have engaged in a ritual ceremony to pray for land rights after the Ministry of Justice less than two weeks ago called on the provincial Department of Land to revoke their land titles to 33 rai (5.28 hectares) of coast, local media reports.
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Namibia
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / New Era
Windhoek — Namibia's intention to restore its valuable rangelands at a whopping cost of some N$30 billion over the next 20 years is regarded by many observers as a groundbreaking project, which has earned the respect of role players at international podiums.
It is also viewed as an example of a government committed to the rehabilitation of degraded land and water bodies - to be at declining rates of degradation by 2030.
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Australia
By: Linda Rowley (property editor)
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Beef Central
The scope for pastoral diversification in Western Australia’s Kimberley/Pilbara region has been limited by outdated land tenure laws that are now being overhauled by the WA state government. The new form of land tenure known as the ‘Rangelands Lease’ follows years of lobbying by pastoralists. (...)
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United States of America
By: Geoffrey Mohan
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: Los Angeles Times
A proposal by the state’s farm labor watchdog to gain access to fields so it can educate workers about their rights is running into strong opposition from growers, even before it has been written into regulation.
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Namibia
By: Theresia Tjihenuna
Date: February 10th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Namibian
Government says it is not responsible for a stand-off involving two resettlement beneficiaries and a previous farm owner who is refusing to vacate land that has been sold to the state.
