By: Eleven

Date: September 28th 2016

Source: Eleven Myanmar

Around 200 farmers whose land was seized by private companies in 2009 held a press conference in Taungoo, Bago Region, on September 27, where they were accompanied by the leadership of the No 2 Brigade of the Karen National Union.

By: Silas Gbandia

Date: September 28th 2016

Source: Equal Times

A former member of Sierra Leone’s parliament has spoken of his determination to put an end to what he describes as the “underhand deals” taking place between the authorities and international palm oil producers in his country.

By: Edwin Genoway, Jr 

Date: September 28th 2016

Source: Front Page Africa

Monrovia - A two-day dialogue on large scale land acquisitions in Liberia started Tuesday at a local restaurant in Sinkor.

By: Erin Handley

Date: September 28th 2016

Source: Phnom Penh Post

By: Rina Chandran

Date: September 26th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

VEMULAGHAT, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The peacefulness of the lush green fields of paddy and maize lining the road to Vemulaghat village in Telangana, India belies the anger of villagers protesting against the southern state's plans to acquire about 21,000 acres of land for a reservoir.

By: Chris Arsenault

Date: September 23rd 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - International land deals, often for giant agriculture projects, now cover an area the size of Germany and a growing share are getting up and running, fuelling fears that local residents will be displaced, the anti-poverty group Oxfam said on Monday.

By: Patrick Adoga

Date: September 21st 2016

Source: Today

As the world celebrates the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations today, conservationists have warned transnational companies from Europe, America and Asia against scramble for land in Nigeria and Africa for industrial agro-business.

By: Roy Prosterman (Landesa)

Date: September 20th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Could the newly democratic nation become Asia's sixth development success story?

Since World War II, there have been five great Asian development success stories founded upon land tenure reforms that allocated land ownership, or equivalent long-term land rights, into the hands of small farmers. Will Burma be the sixth?

By Ebun Sessou & Damilola Olabiyisi

Date: September 16th 2016

Source: Vanguard

Deputy Majority Leader, Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr. Olumuyiwa Jimoh, who is representing Apapa II, speaks on the newly enacted law criminalising land grabbing in the state.

What is the significance of the land grabbing law?

By: Chris Arsenault

Date: September 15th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Campaigners and human rights lawyers said the move reflects increasing global recognition of the severity of environmental crime

By:  Karlo Mikhail Mongaya

Date: September 8th 2016

Source: Global Voices

By: Joseph Mwamunyange
Date: September 3rd 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The East African

Tanzania's Land Act No. 4 of 1999 explicitly states that no foreigner can own land in the country.

According to the former executive director of HakiArdhi, Yefred Myenzi, the Act spells out how land can be used, including leasehold.