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Displaying 2131 - 2140 of 2403Is there more to India’s urbanization beyond Delhi and Mumbai?
By: Tadit Kundu
Date: March 9th 2016
Source: Live Mint
With close to 25 million people living in Mumbai and Delhi combined, India’s urbanization has clearly been lop-sided
'My land, my life' - West African women march for land rights
By: Kieran Guilbert
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
DAKAR, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Rural women across West Africa will march to demand equal land rights on Tuesday to mark International Women's Day, as activists urge African nations to invest in female farmers.
Nearing a text: March to see release of key documents informing the New Urban Agenda
By: Gregg Scruggs
Date: March 7th 2016
Source: Citiscope
A series of high-level reports will be made public this month by global stakeholders and experts, constituting major inputs to the first draft of the Habitat III strategy.
India: In for 50% quota, not even 10% women own land
By: TNN
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Times of India
Lucknow - On the eve of International Women's Day, while UP [Uttar Pradesh] celebrates an increased participation of women in its block and zila panchayats, higher even than the Central proposal of 50% reservation for women in local bodies, ownership of land among women remains abysmally low.
Female farmers in 90 nations face discriminatory land laws
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
TORONTO, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in more than 90 countries still lack equal rights to own land, hurting food production and efforts to tackle poverty, Rwanda's former agriculture minister said.
Thailand: 800,000 landless awaiting land allotment
By: Online reporter
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Bangkok Post
About 800,000 landless people are awaiting promised land allotments from government agencies, according to figures compiled by the Agricultural Land Reform Office (Alro) of the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry.
Trinidad and Tobago: Concern over land grabbing in Sangre Grande, Point Fortin
By: Shaliza Hassanali
Date: March 8th 2016
Source: Guardian Trinidad and Tobago
In the last eight months, hundreds of squatters have encroached on State lands in the Sangre Grande and Point Fortin areas.
The land grabbing in these two districts has now become a major concern.
Tanzania: Morogoro Leaders Challenged to Resolve Disputes Amicably
By: Jimmy Lwangili
Date: March 6th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Tanzania Daily News
Morogoro — Assistant Commissioner of Land in Eastern zone, Ms Juliana Pilla has urged leaders of Kilombero, Ulanga and Malinyi to resolve land disputes in the villages and wards to simplify the exercise of surveying and titling of land projects in the districts.
Guatemala: A state of land grabs
By: Pambana Bassett
Date: March 5th 2016
Source: Amandela
The concerns about the massive land grab of Belize, whether it be up to the Sibun River, or the entire 8,867 square miles of land in addition to sea territory, are serious. The oligarchy of Guatemala has made a habit of usurping land from those to whom it belongs, for hundreds of years.