By: Rina Chandran
Date: August 18th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Conflicts over land in India will only increase as its economy grows quickly, and the most effective way to prevent them is to ensure land laws are simpler and more transparent, a leading campaigner said.
By: BellaNaija.com
Date: August 15th 2016
Source: Bella Naija
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday signed the Lagos State Properties Protection Law and the Lagos State Neighbourhood Safety Corps Law aimed at curbing the menace of land grabbing, and boosting the security of lives and property in all the Local Government Areas and Local Council Development Areas of the State respectively.
By: Sally Hayden
Date: August 11th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mass street protests that saw dozens of people shot by Ethiopian security forces over the weekend could spill into civil war if the government fails to reform land use policies, a veteran Ethiopian opposition politician has warned.
By: Jack Davies
Date: August 15th 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
Smallholder farmers have a crucial role to play in tempering the growing pains of Cambodia’s transition to an industrialised economy, but unless something is done, they will face a land shortage in the coming years, according to the authors of a new report.
By: Sek Odom
Date: August 12th 2016
Source: Cambodia Daily
Representatives of evicted families and a sugarcane plantation owned by a prominent CPP senator announced an agreement on Thursday that provides compensation ranging from $500 to $5,000 to eligible villagers after a five-year battle over land.
The deal was meant to put an end to claims of land-grabbing against Senator Ly Yong Phat’s Phnom Penh Sugar Company.
By: Rina Chandran
Date: August 11th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Gyalgen Lama was a third-generation tenant farmer in Nepal's Sindhupalchok district, eking out a living from growing millet on a small piece of land that he could only dream of owning.
That is until a land rights group helped to make his dream a reality.
By: Jennifer Duncan and Jaron Vogelsang
Date: August 10th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
By: Siva G|
Date: August 11th 2016
Source: Times of India
VISAKHAPATNAM: Police bosses are busy chalking out various plans and proposals to address the litigation cases pertaining to land and land grabbing at Madhurawada and other areas. According to sources, the police department's previous attempt with a DSP rank officer as sub-division chief yielded little results.
By: Paola Totaro
Date: August 9th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
By: Kann Vicheika
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: VOA Khmer
The protesters from six villages in Koh Kong’s Sre Ambel and Botum Sakor districts claim that Koh Kong Sugar and Koh Kong Plantation encroached on their farmland.
By: Chris Arsenault
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indigenous people living in Brazil's rainforest have welcomed a decision by the national environment agency to cancel a proposed mega-dam in the Amazon which they say would have displaced communities while opening the sensitive region to logging.
