The DFID-funded LEGEND (Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development) programme is commissioning a State of the Debate report on "Promoting More Inclusive Business Models in Agriculture". The LEGEND Core Land Support Team (CLST) is looking to contract one or more experts to prepare this paper. Please find attached the TORs for this paper.
By: Edwin G. Genoway, Jr
Date: November 15th 2016
Source: Front Page Africa
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: Channels TV
The Ogun State Governor, Ibikunle Amosun, has signed into law, a bill prohibiting forceful takeover of land, by persons or group of individuals.
The passage of the bill has formally criminalised the act, which also attracts a 25-year jail term without options of fine, for those who violate this existing law of the state.
By: Shinovene Immanuel
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: The Namibian
FOREIGN nationals will no longer be allowed to own agricultural, commercial and communal land if a proposed law tabled last week by lands minister Utoni Nujoma is passed in parliament.
Details on how government plans to ban foreign land ownership are contained in the Land Bill of 2016 tabled by Nujoma in the National Assembly last Thursday.
By: Liz Hampton
Date: November 8th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Energy Transfer Partners LP on Tuesday said it was not slowing down construction of its Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, a project contested by environmentalists and Native Americans groups.
Date: November 10th 2016
Source: ZimEye
EUROPE’S top diplomat in Zimbabwe has expressed concern over a new wave of land expropriations in the country, saying this has slowed down the country’s reform and re-engagement programme.
By: Nandini Velho, Aparajita Datta, Anirban Datta-Roy, Mihin Dollo
Date: November 9th 2016
Source: The Arunachal Times
The recent articles by Umesh Srinivasan and Idar Nyori have brought the promise and pitfalls of oil palm expansion in Arunachal Pradesh to the fore.
By: Jeanfreddy Gutiérrez Torres
Date: October 31st 2016
Source: Mongabay
By: Alisa Tang
Date: November 3rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Land conflicts in Myanmar have escalated in recent years, with military and armed groups driving people from their land, and new laws failing to protect farmers, a rights watchdog said on Thursday.
