By: Kamanthi Wickramasinghe
Date: November 2nd 2016
Source: Daily Mirror
The law relating to land rights and land contracts in Sri Lanka have been embedded in a complex web of statutes that existed since the year 1863. This was during the colonial rule, a period in which the patriarchal system prevailed.
By: NT
Date: November 2nd 2016
Source: The Navhind Times
Beijing: China has initiated a new set of land reforms changing the 30-year-old system to permit transfer of land rights to individuals or conglomerates, a politically sensitive move as the Communist country embarked on urban expansion shedding its agrarian past.
By: Andrew Mambondiyani
Date: October 31st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
MUTARE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brian van Buuren, a white former farmer in Burma Valley, eastern Zimbabwe, couldn't hide his anger as he recalled how he lost almost everything during the country's controversial land reforms.
By: Elias Glenn and Kevin Yao
Date: November 3rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
China has relaxed rules to allow farmers to transfer their land rights to help promote more efficient, large-scale farms, amid an exodus of farm workers to the cities.
Date: October 24th 2016
Source: Jaimaica Observer
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Opposition spokesperson on land, Senator Sophia Frazer Binns, says the contentious informal settlement at 85 Red Hills Road in St Andrew is another reason to place the issue of land tenure, ownership and rectification on the agenda for discussion once again.
By: Katy Migiro
Date: October 13th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
NAIROBI, Oct 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of women from more than 20 African countries are meeting in Tanzania to write a charter of demands to improve their access to and control over land.
By: Liga Rudzite
Date: October 14th 2016
Source: TOL.org
By: Marie O'Halloran
Date: October 12th 2016
Source: The Irish Times
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has renewed his call for a tax on land purchases in excess of 750 acres, accusing conglomerates in the horse industry of “gobbling up” huge tracts of land.
By: Barbara Mae Dacanay
Date: October 12th 2016
Source: The Gulf News
Manila: Twelve farmers fighting for land reform were arrested and have remained in prison based on a complaint of a landlord in central Philippines at the start of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte who has revived peace talks with the 48-year-old Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), a rights leader said.
By: Michael Sena Dzansi
Date: October 11th 2016
Source: News Ghana
CARITAS Ghana has stated that though Ghana has adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the new global framework for development, the country faces the risk of failing to attain some of these goals due to the negative impact of land grabbing throughout the country.
By Zabihullah Noori
Date: October 11th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
