Land Matters Media Scan – 2 December 2016

Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:

USAID

1. Harvesting Sweet Success: How Land Rights are Helping Tajikistan’s Apricot Farmers Reap the Fruits of their Labor (11/28/16)
   Source: Medium / USAIDEnviro
2. From the Ground Up: USAID brings together farmers, communities, and the government of Burma … (11/18/16)
   Source: Medium / USAIDEnviro

Events

1. Land Tenure and Property Rights MOOC 2.0 (Registration Open)
   Source: USAID LandLinks
2. Webinar Wednesday: Land Tenure in Tanzania (12/7/16)
   Source: USAID LandLinks
3. Artisanal Mining, Property Rights, and Development (12/13/16)
   Source: USAID LandLinks
4. Online Debate on Land Valuation and Fair Compensation (11/28-12/16/16)
   Source: Land Portal

Global

1. Land rights; a source of economic stability, security for women living with HIV (12/1/16)
   Source: MyJoyOnline
2. Renewable energy is violating human rights as much as fossil fuels have for decades (11/25/16)
   Source: Quartz
3. Getting to Sustainable Palm Oil: A Hardware and Software Approach to a Market Problem (11/23/16)
   Source: New Security Beat blog

Africa

1. Africa: Pastoralists’ Complex Tenure Rights Are Key to Community Resilience (11/25/16)
   Source: AllAfrica / FAO
2. DRC Launches DFID-Funded Land Governance Programme to support peace and stability (11/23/16)
   Source: ReliefWeb / UN-Habitat
3. Nigeria: Parliament Condemns Land Grab By Chinese Firms (11/29/16)
   Source: AllAfrica / Premium Times
4. Tanzania: Making National Land Policy Inclusive and People-Centred [sic] (11/29/16)
   Source: AllAfrica / The Citizen
5. Kenyans sound alarm over election threat to public land (11/29/16)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
6. Kenya: Legal access to land rights does little to better plight of female Kenyan farmers (11/22/16)
   Source: New York Times
7. Uganda: Customary Land Titles to End Conflicts – Officials (11/23/16)
   Source: AllAfrica / The Monitor

Americas

1. Land Distribution Most Unequal in Latin America, Charity Says (11/30/16)
   Source: Voice of America / Reuters
2. Bolivia: Rights Campaigners: Mining Projects, Big Plantations Mean Bolivia’s Drought Hurts More (11/28/16)
   Source: Voice of America / Reuters

Asia

1. ‘Leopard skin’ plan helps Cambodia farmers stay on large land concessions (11/29/16)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
2. Related: TIMELINE-Land politics in Cambodia (11/29/16)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
3. China steps up protection of property rights (11/27/16)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Pacific

1. Guam Land Could Go to Traditional Chamorro Healers (11/29/16)
   Source: Voice of America
2. Malaysian DJ samples indigenous music to spread land rights message (11/28/16)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation