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By: New Era Staff Reporter
Date: February 8th 2016
Source: New Era
Windhoek - Namibia is to spend a staggering N$30 billion in real terms over the next 20 years in a drastic effort to restore its rangelands and alleviate bush encroachment.
China's cabinet guideline affirms urbanization drive
Date: February 6th 2016
Source: ShanghaiDaily.com
BEIJING, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- China's cabinet on Saturday urged local governments to register migrant workers as urbanites and encourage farmers to buy homes in cities.
Sierra Leone convicts six of destroying palm oil trees in land rights dispute
By: Umaru Fofana
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: Reuters Africa
BO, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - A Sierra Leone court has convicted six people opposed to a palm oil project in which French conglomerate Bollore owns a major stake of destroying trees and inciting the local population to protest over land rights.
India: Environmental activists demand action against all influential land grabbers
By: Shabir Ahmad
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: Kashmir Reader
ANANTNAG: A day after the Vigilance Organisation of Kashmir (VOK) booked congress leader and former PHE minister, Taj Mohiudin for grabbing the forest land in Shopian district, environmental activists demanded action against all the bigwigs who having encroached upon the prized forest land at Pahalgam.
Namibia: Land Reform Weighs Communal Land Benefits
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / New Era
The Ministry of Land Reform is pondering the possibility of increasing the benefits associated with the registration of communal land rights.
Currently, registered communal land owners are only issued with a certificate. One of the possibilities could be that of using the certificate as collateral.
Nepal: Land For Peace
By: Rubeena Mahato
Date: February 5th 2016
Source: Nepali Times
Gains of Nepal’s land rights movement has come not from bloodshed and war, but from a non-violent social movement.
In the larger scheme of things, the petty games that politicians play to keep themselves relevant should not matter much. They have done it year after year, decade after decade — it’s the same plot and even the characters are the same.
How indigenous land rights factor into climate goals
By: Max Lewontin
Date: February 4th 2016
Source: Christian Science Monitor
A panel of forest policy groups pressed for more action Wednesday, saying the public and the private sector could help raise awareness about the toll efforts to designate forests as 'protected' or increase agricultural production can have on indigenous people.
Kenya: Schools Must Acquire Title Deeds, Says Land Commission
By: Patrick Langat
Date: February 4th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Daily Nation
The National Land Commission and the Ministry of Education have directed schools to acquire title deeds.
Only 7,000 of the 32,000 schools countrywide have the documents, NLC chairman Mohammad Swazuri said.
Dr Swazuri said that about 9,000 schools applied for title deeds following President Uhuru Kenyatta's directive in January last year.
Cambodia: In Frustration, Germany Ends Land Rights Work
By: Zsombor Peter
Date: February 4th 2016
Source: Cambodia Daily
After more than 20 years, Germany is ending its work with the Land Management Ministry on land rights projects in frustration over the government’s slow reforms—another black eye for a sector at the center of some of the country’s most pressing human right issues.
