Bangladesh: Not words, they want their land back
By: Pinaki Roy and Rezaul Hoque
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: Daily Star
It was long after sundown. Amid a shroud of darkness, a Santal family lit a fire to cook their first meal of the day.
By: Pinaki Roy and Rezaul Hoque
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: Daily Star
It was long after sundown. Amid a shroud of darkness, a Santal family lit a fire to cook their first meal of the day.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: November 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
KOH KONG, Cambodia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Facing eviction from the five-hectare rice plot he had been farming for years and worried about how he would feed his three kids, Ngeth Sim did something he will always regret.
By: Michael Harris
Date: 9 November 2016
Source: Hydroworld.com
An announcement made this week by Mexico's Comision Reguladora de Energia could provide hydroelectric developers with an easier means of settling land use conflicts.
By: Galgalo Bocha
Date: November 1st 2016
Source: Daily Nation
Civil societies in Tana River County have said unresolved land ownership disputes are still a threat to the region's stability.
By: Sizwe Sama Yende
Date: November 1st 2016
Source: City Press
Criminal charges have been laid relating to one of the biggest land claim scams in the country – potentially costing the government millions – but the rural development and land reform department says it knows nothing about it.
Forensic investigator Paul O’Sullivan opened a criminal case on October 14 regarding the inflation of land prices in the Badplaas area.
By: Sulok Tawie
Date: October 25th 2016
Source: The Malay Mail Online
KUCHING, Oct 25 — Tan Sri Adenan Satem can prevent more deaths by establishing a Land Rights Commission to deal with disputes between natives and plantation companies, Sarawak PKR chairman Baru Bian said today.
By: Lewis S. Teh
Date: October 11th 2016
Source: The New Dawn Liberia
Liberia’s Minister of Information has warned here that land remains a major source of conflict in Liberia. Minister Lenn Eugene Nagbe said government has been involved in a land reform process for the past years, and the significance behind such reform process is to halt all disputes about land across the country.
By Zabihullah Noori
Date: October 11th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
By: John Wanyama
Date: October 6th 2016
Source: The Citizen Digital
The Ministry of land has raised a red flag over the rising cases of land grabbing and misuse of private land in the country.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: September 29th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One of the world's biggest gold mining firms has pledged to improve its dispute resolution practices following an 18-month investigation into a bitter, ongoing conflict over land between farmers and its Peruvian subsidiary.
By: Eliasu Tanko
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: STARRFM Online
A longstanding land dispute which continues to brew raw tensions in the Bole district of the Northern region has threatened the survival of a $3,139,383 poverty alleviation project.
The project, Babator Irrigated Farming Hub, an initiative of the Africa Agriculture Development Company (AgDevCo) a social impact investor and project in Agriculture sector missioned to reduce poverty, hunger, under-nutrition and improve food security.
By: Mike Verdin
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Agrimoney.com
Expansion of palm oil producers into Latin America, the "new frontier for global expansion" is snagging on confusion over land rights – which is encouraging some groups to expand into rainforest.