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By: MacDonald Dzirutwe
Date: March 22nd 2016
Source: Euronews
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s plan to win back international funding by paying compensation to white farmers forced off their land faces a major snag: the black farmers expected to stump up the cash say they don’t have it.
New Green Challenge: How to Grow More Food on Less Land
By: Richard Connif
Date: March 21st 2016
Source: Yale Environment 360
If the world is to have another Green Revolution to feed its soaring population, it must be far more sustainable than the first one. That means finding ways to boost yields with less fertilizer and rethinking the way food is distributed.
In Brazil, UN expert highlights deadly consequences of delaying land demarcation
Date: March 22nd 2016
Source: New Kerala
New York, Mar 22 :Following a visit to Brazil, a United Nations independent human rights expert on Monday expressed alarm about the extent of documented and reported attacks on indigenous peoples in the country's central-western state of Mato Grosso Do Sul.
Malaysian Baram mega-dam project scrapped, indigenous people take back land
By: Rowena Dela Rosa Yoon
Date: March 22nd 2016
Source: Asian Correspondent
SARAWAK’S controversial mega-dams project is officially dead – ending a three-year battle to stop developmental aggression.
The Sarawak state government has finally bowed to pressure from local communities who have been protesting against the construction of 12 mega-dams along the Baram river in the Malaysian province of Borneo.
Kenya: Residents Blame Tycoons for Land Grabbing
By: Kalume Kazungu
Date: March 21st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
A section of residents have called on the county government to intervene and help them recover their land which they claim has been grabbed by tycoons.
Mr Musa Aden who spoke on behalf of the residents of Nagele village in Witu on Sunday said those who have allegedly stolen their ancestral land are using money to frustrate their efforts to recover it.
Cambodia: Ministry to examine detention of land dispute victims
By: Niem Chheng and Mech Dara
Date: March 17th 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
Judicial officials from across the country will converge on Phnom Penh on Friday to report on the use of pre-trial detention for land dispute victims, it was announced yesterday.
U.N. sounds alarm over violence against indigenous activists in recession-hit Brazil
By Chris Arsenault
Date: March 18th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As recession bites and land disputes hit Brazil's agricultural heartland, indigenous people face land grabs and assaults by violent gangs, said Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous people.
Bad governance behind Pakistan’s massive deforestation: SCOPE
By: PPI
Date: March 20th 2016
Source: Pakistan Today
Society for Conservation and Protection of Environment’s (SCOPE) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the country’s prominent environmentalist, Tanveer Arif, said on Sunday that bad governance was behind Pakistan’s massive deforestation was colossal loss to green economy.
NGOs demand policies to ensure land rights to women farmers
By: PTI
Date: March 19th 2016
Source: The Economic Times
NEW YORK: Highlighting the challenges faced by women farmers in India, a group of Indian NGOs has called for putting in place strong policies to ensure land rights for them and stressed the need for customised financial products including easy loans and capital availability to support them.