Land Matters Media Scan – 27 March 2017

USAID

1. Request for Information/Sources Sought: Communications, Evidence and Learning Project (3/21/17)
   Source: LandLinks
2. Ask the Expert: An Interview with Caleb Stevens, USAID (3/16/17)
   Source: LandLinks
3. Ask the Expert: An Interview with Heather Huntington, Cloudburst (3/23/17)
   Source: LandLinks
4. USAID, Hershey’s and ECOM Help Cocoa Farmers Increase Production, Strengthen Land Rights, and Protect Forests (3/15/17)
   Source: LandLinks
5. USAID Supports Women with Land Issues in Tajikistan (3/8/17)
   Source: LandLinks
6. Land Rights Mark a New Frontier for Tanzania’s Rural Women (3/6/17)
   Source: LandLinks

2017 World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty

1. USAID at the World Bank Land and Poverty Conference 2017 – includes papers presented on USAID projects (3/20–23/17)
   Source: LandLinks
2. There’s a data revolution at grassroots (3/26/17)
   Source: Business Daily
3. Why Secure Land Rights Matter (3/24/17)
   Source: World Bank
4. Coke and Pepsi get mixed reviews in bid to clean up Brazil sugar supplies (3/24/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
5. Tech giants should join global campaign to seek land rights for all – experts (3/22/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
6. One in four people fear losing their homes, new nine country poll reveals (3/22/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
7. UA Professor Researching Drone Use To Establish Land Rights (3/22/17)
   Source: KJZZ
8. Is “Secure Enough” Good Enough for Land Tenure? A Case Study from Rwanda (3/20/17)
   Source: Chemonics
9. Women, cities, and opportunity: Making the case for secure land rights (3/20/17)
   Source: World Bank
10. Opinion: Need a reason to open up land rights data? Here are 10 (3/17/16)
    Source: Devex

Global

1. INFOGRAPHIC: Surveying the landscape to reduce poverty (3/21/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
2. The case for thinking local: community-driven land information systems (3/20/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
3. Newest Technologies Becoming Weapons in Fight for Land Rights (3/20/17)
   Source: VOA / Reuters
4. How Community Land Rights Can Save Our Forests and Climate (3/20/17)
   Source: Intercontinental Cry
5. Tenure reform: Lessons from the Global South (3/20/17)
   Source: CIFOR blog

Africa

1. Solving Africa’s land issues to boost productivity, alleviate poverty and eradicate hunger (3/24/17)
   Source: CNBC Africa
2. Fighting land corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa: Widows tell their story (3/23/17)
   Source: Transparency International
3. Ethiopia: International aid for Ethiopian land rights reform (3/23/17)
   Source: Floral Daily
4. South Africa: Special unit created as Pretoria land grabs spiral out of control: report (3/23/17)
   Source: BusinessTech
5. Tanzania: Despite murderous attacks, Tanzania’s ‘witches’ fight for land (3/22/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
6. Nigeria: Demolition of Lagos slum, defying court order, fuels fears of more evictions – activists (3/20/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Americas

1. Guyana tribe goes hi-tech to protect its land (3/19/17)
   Source: BBC News
2. Ecuador: Amazon land battle pits indigenous villagers against might of Ecuador state (3/19/17)
   Source: The Guardian
3. Brazil: Land rights activist shot dead in Brazilian Amazon hospital (3/21/17)
   Source: The Guardian

Asia

1. Cambodia: Government Threatens Land Rights Protesters With Legal Action (3/27/17)
   Source: Cambodia Daily
2. India: Growing runner beans to avert child marriage, trafficking in eastern India (3/21/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
3. India: Indigenous people would be provided land patta: Sonowal (3/18/17)
   Source: DNA

Europe

1. Romania: Roma fear there is no place for them as Romania’s cities modernize (3/22/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Pacific

1. Indonesia Gives Some Control of Forests to Native Groups (3/25/17)
   Source: Voice of America
2. Indonesian tribes rally for land rights (3/17/17)
   Source: Al Jazeera
3. Australia: Labor to support native title changes to protect mining deals (3/21/17)
   Source: The Guardian