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Kenya: When Ministers, Civil Servants Got 100 Acres and Farm House for Free
By: John Kamau
Date: February 21st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
OPINION
Many Kenyans have never heard about the Z-Plots - yet if anyone wants to investigate the origins of land grabbing in Kenya, this is where they should start.
Pakistan: The economics of land reform
By: Danish Khan
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: The International News
Due to the colonial history of Pakistan, land distribution is highly skewed in favor of political and social elites. According to estimates, four percent of the wealthiest rural landowners own more than fifty percent of all cultivated land in Pakistan. Moreover, fifty percent of the rural families are landless and this number is continuously on the rise.
Zika fuelled by rapid urbanization, poor conditions in Latam’s slums – experts
By: Anastasia Moloney
Date: February 19th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation / Euronews
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The mosquito-borne Zika virus spreading through the Americas, linked to severe birth defects in Brazil, will not be controlled over the long-term unless governments improve poor living conditions in the region’s sprawling slums, experts say.
Uttaran Land Governance Booklet: Training Modules
Uttaran realises the importance of sharing knowledge and best practices. That is why it has become a leading provider of training on issues related to land and waterbody governance in Bangladesh. In the tenth and last of the Land Governance Booklet series, the NGO's work around training is described.
The content of the booklet is as follows:
Uttaran Land Governance Booklet: Advocacy and Research
In the ninth of the Land Governance Booklet Series created by the NGO Uttaran, the position and the work around research and advocacy on land rights is described.
The content of the booklet is as follows:
Uttaran Land Governance Booklet: Landless Identification
In the third of the Land Governance Booklet Series created by the NGO Uttaran, the work to identify and reduce the amount of landless people in Bangladesh is decribed.
The content of the booklet is as follows:
China should let its big cities grow
By: Ming Lu
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: Nikkei Asian Review
Chinese leaders have announced plans to reform the country's household registration, or hukou, system to transform domestic migrant workers into local citizens of the cities where they work and live. Such a policy change would mark a momentous development.
Pakistan: Sindh govt legalises Karachi slums
By: Aslam Shah
Date: February 19th 2016
Source: Daily Times
Sindh Assembly issues notification granting leasehold rights to slum dwellers
KARACHI: Thousands of innocent Karachiites are being deprived of their hard-earned lifetime saving in shape of properties encroached upon by the 'katchi abadis'.
Trans-Pacific Partnership Threatens Indigenous Land Rights Says the UN
Date: February 18th 2016
Source: TeleSUR
The trade agreement signed earlier in February will have a devastating effect on Indigenous people, the last guardians of our natural world.