News on Land

A delegation of Rastriya Ekata Abhiyan, led by its President Binay Yadav, handed over the memo to the Minister on Tuesday in Kathmandu.

(Main photo: Sunlight illuminates a part of Kathmandu valley in Nepal. Reuters / Representational image)

A civic group in Nepal has submitted a memorandum to Minister of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation Shashi Shrestha, demanding to claim country's territory occupied by China.

The historic ruling follows a landmark judgment delivered by the Court on 26 May 2017, findin

Projects aimed at food security

India will provide "appropriate land" for "food parks" across the country that will be built in collaboration with Israel, United States and the United Arab Emirates. The plan for the "integrated food parks" was announced in a Joint Statement after the leaders of the I2U2 grouping - India, Israel, the UAE and the USA - announced on Thursday that they would bring in private capital for specific projects in the fields of water, energy, transportation, health, space and food security.

Cash-strapped and cut off from international aid, the Taliban-led government is tapping into Afghanistan's natural resources to boost revenue.

Since the Taliban toppled the Western-backed government in Kabul and seized power in August 2021, the export of and custom duties from coal have become a key source of revenue for the militant group.

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Main photo - Officers preparing land certificates to be awarded to residents at Tawaeli Sub-district Office, North Palu, Central Sulawesi, Friday (October 23, 2020). ANTARA PHOTO/Mohamad Hamzah/wsj).

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Proper handling of land conflicts occurring in various regions is crucial to prevent delay and hindrance in regional development, a Home Affairs Ministry's official stated.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has been given a reprieve in the US$14.9 billion (RM63.5 billion) claim over a centuries-old land deal.

The Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives, and Poverty Alleviation has issued the "Working Policy on Registration, Use, and Leasing of Government Land, 2022" to systematise the record-keeping of government lands.

As per the working policy published in the Nepal Gazette last week, the land revenue offices concerned shall register all unregistered government lands in the name of the Government of Nepal.

Such lands include all the lands used by the Government of Nepal, provincial governments or local levels and their entities, but which have yet to be registered.

Rural 21, the International Journal for Rural Development, published an article by Laura Meggiolaro and Anne Hennings on the recently updated SDG Land Tracker.