Land Matters Media Scan – 21 April 2017

USAID

1. Customary Land Certification Reaches Zambia’s Vulnerable Populations (4/21/17)
   Source: LandLinks

Upcoming Events

1. Using Tools to Advance Transparency in Land Investments (4/26/16)
   Source: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
   RSVP: Here

Reports and Publications

1. The 2017 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: a new visual guide to data and development (4/17/17)
   Source: World Bank’s Data Blog
2. Militants exploit growing competition for water, land – study (4/20/16)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Global

1. The Necessary Alliance between Conservationists and Rights Advocates (4/18/16)
   Source: Scientific American
2. Land Registry: A Big Blockchain Use Case Explored (4/19/16)
   Source: Coin Desk

Africa

1. Gambia: African Women’s Network for Community Management of Forests Constituted (4/13/17)
   Source: All Africa / The Point
2. Analysis: South Africa: On land issues, ANC lacks clarity and determination (4/17/17)
   Source: Daily Maverick
3. Gold rush fever among poor Zimbabweans leaves trail of destruction (4/17/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
4. Ethiopia rights body: ‘More than 600 protest deaths’ (4/18/17)
   Source: BBC News
5. Kenya’s pastoralists look beyond patriarchy to property rights for women (4/19/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
6. Kenya needs two million homes to curb slum explosion, World Bank says (4/12/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
7. Namibia: Customary land rights holders on communal land urged to embrace each other (4/19/17)
   Source: Namibian Broadcasting Corporation

Americas

1. Brazilians Dislike Tax Paid to Royal Descendants (4/13/17)
   Source: VOA News
2. Brazilian tribal leader fronts global protests for land rights (4/18/17)
   Source: Survival International
3. General Motors Quits Venezuela After Officials Seize Plant (4/20/17)
   Source: NBC News

Asia

1. Related: This Village In Vietnam Is Holding A Dozen Police Officers Hostage (4/17/17)
   Source: Foreign Policy
2. Related: Hanoi authorities attempt to settle land dispute (4/19/17)
   Source: VietnamNet
3. Anatomy Of A Tiger: With all Eyes on Myanmar, See How Land Reform Shaped Asia’s Tiger Economies (4/17/17)
   Source: SKOLL
4. Does Hong Kong’s land sale system need a new lease of life? (4/18/17)
   Source: South China Morning Post
5. Cambodia: World Bank Loan of $100 Million Angers Boeng Kak Activists (4/19/17)
   Source: The Cambodia Daily (subscription req’d)
6. South India’s scorching drought forces farmers into debt bondage (4/19/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Europe

1. Post-Brexit farm policy must improve public access to land, campaigners say (4/19/17)
   Source: FarmingUK
2. Infrastructure for introduction of land market prepared in Ukraine – Agrarian Policy Ministry (4/20/17)
   Source: UKRINFORM