Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:
US Government
- Can the new US National Action Plan encourage responsible business under Trump? (12/19/16)
Source: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Global
- Women’s Rights in Land Investment Decisionmaking: Interview with Celine Salcedo-La Viña (January 2017)
Source: Food Tank
Africa
- AfDB plans to safeguard women property rights (12/22/16)
Source: Daily Nation - Tanzania: Land Rent Defaulters Face Public Exposure Starting Next Month (12/30/16)
Source: AllAfrica / Tanzania Daily News - Nigeria: Lagos development boom sparks fear that slum dwellers will be left homeless (12/21/16)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Zambia: Traditional land will not be put on title-Mutati (12/19/16)
Source: Lusaka Times
Americas
- US: New S.C. property tax law protects family land rights (1/2/17)
Source: WCSC - US: In a victory for Native American tribes, Obama names new monuments in Utah and Nevada (12/28/16)
Source: PBS NewsHour / AP - Ecuador: U.N. experts slam Ecuador over forced closure of land rights group (12/30/16)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Mexico’s Maya point way to slow species loss, climate change (12/30/16)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Asia
- Myanmar: profit clouds army pledge to return seized land (1/2/17)
Source: Morung Express / Reuters - China Reassures Homeowners Worried About Land Rights (12/26/16)
Source: New York Times - India: Women farmers in northern India battle tradition, self-doubt to own land (12/29/16)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Cambodians push for transparency over large land deals (12/23/16)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Pacific
- Indonesia: A village’s first female chief ended illegal logging with spies and checkpoints (12/30/16)
Source: PRI