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Sierra Leone News: NSAs demand 25 years land lease to Multinational Investments
As way to control land use and land lease to multinational foreign companies and ensuring women’s rights to own land, a group of Non-State Actors (NSAs) led by Action Aid have called on government to limit all land leases with multinational investments to 25 years instead of the current 50 years.
Local villagers want coal mine stopped in Indonesian Borneo
Via News.com.au
Indigenous Dayaks in a remote Borneo village fight BHP coal mine
AUGUST 11, 2015 8:28PM
AUSTRALIAN mining giant BHP Billiton has hit a roadblock on its coal mine in Indonesian Borneo after finally starting operations.
New Alliance: Framework for Responsible Land-Based Agricultural Investments
Technical experts from G7 donors (UK, US, Germany, France), AU Land Policy Initiative and FAO have compiled a due diligence framework for land related investments based on existing standards, guidance and good practice, to support responsible investments under the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition.
South Africa: Rural Development and Land Reform Approves Land for Women, Farm Workers and People Living With Disability
South African Government (Pretoria)
Via allafrica.com
6 AUGUST 2015
South Africa: Rural Development and Land Reform Approves Land for Women, Farm Workers and People Living With Disability
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Colombia: 'Vamos a comprar tierras a los privados para el posconflicto'
EL TIEMPO (COLOMBIA)
'Vamos a comprar tierras a los privados para el posconflicto'
Ministro de Agricultura aseguró que habrá procesos transparentes para identificar los terrenos.
Por: DANIEL VALERO | 5:52 a.m. | 2 de agosto de 2015
La reforma agraria está lista para ser llevada al Congreso en cuestión de semanas y contempla medidas como la compra de tierras privadas para redistribuirlas en el posconflicto.
Colombia plans to buy land from wealthy owners to give to the poor
Metro.co.uk
Colombia plans to buy land from wealthy owners to give to the poor
Rob Waugh for Metro.co.uk
Tuesday 4 Aug 2015 1:39 pm
Colombia wants to buy land back from wealthy private owners and redistribute it among the poor, as the country comes out of five decades of conflict.
Agriculture Minister Aurelio Iragorri told the El Tiempo newspaper that the idea was to create a ‘land bank’ for the needy.
CEDAW's Optional Protocol and women’s land rights
Using CEDAW and its Optional Protocol to advance women’s land and property rights
2 AUGUST 2015 / SIMONECUSACK
Graciela Dede, Mayra Gomez and Esther Waweru reflect on how the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and its Optional Protocol can help to advance women’s land and property rights. Read the full post here.
Courtesy of the Optional Protocol to CEDAW website
Palm Oil Company Accused of Exploiting Ebola Crisis
NEW YORK TIMES
Palm Oil Company Is Accused of Exploiting Liberia's Ebola Crisis
By CLAIR MacDOUGALL
AUG. 1, 2015
Community land rights are only vaguely recognized in Liberia, with current laws granting the government powers to seize land for concessions.
Read the full article at the NY Times
India: Landless farmers to get ownership rights
TRIBUNE INDIA
Posted at: Aug 2 2015 12:07AM
Landless farmers to get ownership rights
BD Kasniyal
Pithoragarh, August 1
The Udham Singh Nagar district administration has started the process of giving ownership rights free of cost to farmers, who have occupied not more than 3.25 acres of government land and are doing farming on it, in Bazpur subdivision. The state government has issued an order to this effect.