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Displaying 461 - 470 of 2403Leveraging Land: Land-based Finance for Local Governments - A Reader
The potential contribution of land based financing to the development of sustainable and equitable cities and properly serviced communities is often underestimated. Land based financing is a collective name given to a range of instruments by which local governments could expand their revenue base and generate funds that will help them to deliver services and infrastructure development and achieve their maintenance goals.
Turning cities’ focus back to land-based finance
Last month, the South African Independent Electoral Commission announced in frustration that it needs USD 22.9 million to collect addresses ahead of a court-mandated deadline, a problem compounded by the fact that most townships don’t have well-marked street names.
China: Focus should shift from food security to soil preservation (Opinion)
CHINA'S FOOD PRODUCTION has been increasing since the abolition of the agricultural tax－introduced more than a thousand years ago- in 2004. But food imports, too, have increased steadily and significantly in recent years. Southern Metropolis Daily commented on Monday:
Land Matrix Tanzania Country Profile
Through collecting data on large-scale land transactions, the Land Matrix increases transparency to foster accountability of investors and other parties involved in large-scale land transactions. The Land Matrix aims to contribute in an innovative and relevant way to the growing movement towards open development - allowing for greater public involvement in critical decisions that affect the lives of land-users around the world.
The LM Africa Focal Point developed a detailed profile of large-scale land acquisitions in Tanzania.
Forced Evictions, Rights Abuses of Maasai People in Tanzania
ROME, Aug 28 2017 (IPS) - Indigenous Maasai people in Loliondo region,Tanzania have been facing new cases of forced evictions and human rights violations, a major international organisation supporting indigenous peoples’ struggle for human rights and self-determination warned.
Nigeria: Women protest against alleged land-grabbing by military in Delta
India: Baghpat administration begins probe into ‘illegal’ land grabbing to expand Ram Rahim’s ashram
Liberia: ‘Senate Not Pressurized to Pass Land Rights Act’
Sierra Leone: UN urges government to better protect land rights of indigenous populations
(Ecofin Agency) - During a press conference held at the end of a mission in Sierra Leone, UN expert, Baskut Tuncak, denounced fragile protection of land rights of indigenous populations against multinationals. Amongst the latter, Luxembourg firm Socfin, which has palm oil plantations.
India: Government looks to oust squatters on land owned by universities
BU has lost more than 100 acres while Kuvempu University, more than 40 acres to encroachments
After attempting to reclaim public land from land sharks, the state government has now set its eyes on the higher education institutes.
Alarmed by the large-scale land grabbing in and around universities, the higher education department has now cracked the whip on land sharks. Among all the universities, Bangalore University tops the chart with the highest extent of land being encroached upon.