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Africa: Crops or carats? The unattended tensions between miners and farmers
By: Stephen Yeboah
Date: August 23rd 2016
Source: The Conversation
The interaction between artisanal (small scale) mining and agriculture in Africa still needs to be carefully considered by policy makers to ensure that people’s livelihoods and countries' export revenues aren’t threatened. It’s also important that the relationship between the two sectors is optimised to mutual benefit.
China: Shandong Includes Women's Names in Land Rights Certificates
By: Yi Ming and Lü Bingbing
Date: May 3rd 2016
Source: Women of China
Over 94 percent of rural villages or communities in east China's Shandong Province have included women's names on rural land rights certificates, to safeguard their legal rights and interests, according to a Shandong Women's Federation official.
Big brands like Unilever aren't the answer to helping Africa's farmers
By: Bill Vorley
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: The Guardian
Global brands have attempted to work more closely with low-income farmers in Africa, but informal markets may offer better terms
Linking low-income communities to the supply chains of large corporations - so-called inclusive business - has been a major trend over the past decade.
Nine ways to support the rights of indigenous people
By: Holly Young @holly_young88
Source: The Guardian
Date: Friday 1 April 2016
1. Focus on the priorities
Rwanda’s longest drought in six decades: The effects on food security and lessons learnt
By: Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Date: September 16th 2016
Source: New Times
Sitting in the doorway of her residential house in the remote Murundi Sector, Kayonza District in Eastern Province, Verena Uwineza is sorting beans for evening meal on a traditional basket.
It is Monday, September 12. By most accounts, everybody has been affected by prolonged drought in this area.
Protecting the world's oceans: three key tasks
Date: June 8th 2016
Source: iied
To mark World Oceans Day on 8 June, IIED director Andrew Norton sets out three ways the international community can protect marine and coastal environments.
A message for World Oceans Day 2016, with Andrew Norton
Infrastructure: Sri Lanka should rethink housing for urbanizing population
By: LBO
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Lanka Business Online
Sep 23, 2016 (LBO) – Sustainable city development will need to entail alternative housing for urban poor as they are service providers for city dwellers, industrial hub and the ports while also looking at affordability for the middle income earner, a senior official said.
For women in India's Maharashtra, land brings basic rights
By: Rina Chandran
Date: 27 June 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundations
In drought-hit Marathwada, the poorest region in India's western Maharashtra state, there is an unusually high number of single women. Some were widowed after their farmer husbands committed suicide because of debt; others were abandoned because they didn't produce a son, while some were left behind when their husbands left to search for work.