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: 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 Dominik Bosnjak

Date: September 22nd 2016

Source: Android Headlines

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:  Karlo Mikhail Mongaya

Date: September 8th 2016

Source: Global Voices

By: Kizito Makoye 

Date: September 8th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

"The use of drones will help us to define the boundaries of plots of land on the ground with great accuracy"

By: Chris Arsenault

Date: September 8th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Under rental agreements, small-scale landowners retain their title deeds, but larger companies with access to capital and machinery pay for the right to use the land to grow their crops

By:  S. Matthew English

Date: September 4th 2016

Source: The Coin Telegraph

A Blockchain-based land registry may help create new toxic assets and lead to a new financial meltdown.

By: Rina Chandran

Date: September 6th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India will nearly double the budget and extend the deadline for a programme to digitise land records as states struggle to survey land and property, large chunks of which have not been mapped in a century, a senior official said.

By: Angela Almeida and John Surico

Date: September 6th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Inside Rio de Janeiro's Horto favela, half-paved roads connect scattered homes, as monkeys comb through the trees above, and water streams through aqueducts, built by slaves centuries before.

By: Albertina Nakale
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / New Era

Windhoek — Of the 5 231 individuals who benefitted from the resettlement programme since independence to date, 1 405 are female, while 2 039 are men.

The remaining 1 787 are classified as 'group resettlement'.

Director for land reform and resettlement in the Ministry of Land Reform Peter Nangolo said all landless Namibians that apply for resettlement are considered without gender discrimination.