Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:
USAID
- Request for Proposal: Strengthening Tenure and Resource Rights II (8/18/17)
Source: USAID LandLinks - Sources Sought Notice: Communications, Evidence and Learning Project (8/17/17)
Source: USAID LandLinks - The Cloud With A Silver Lining (8/9/17)
Source: USAID Colombia LRDP - Cagayan de Oro City Unlocks Potential of Land (8/15/17)
Source: USAID LandLinks / USAID SURGE - Chiefs Ready to Release Lands to Women – Mentions USAID (8/14/17)
Source: Ghana News Agency
Global
- Opinion: 7 ways to use blockchain for international development (8/11/17)
Source: Devex - Fertile land the most important resource for the future of food security (8/13/17)
Source: The Weekly Times
Indigenous Peoples
- SATIIM launches Maya lands registry to celebrate UN Indigenous Peoples day (8/9/17)
Source: Breaking Belize News - Brazilian supreme court upholds land rights of indigenous people (8/17/17)
Source: The Guardian - For secure land rights, indigenous forest communities need more than just titles (8/14/17)
Source: CGIAR
Africa
- Ghana: Government working to reclaim encroached state lands – Minister (8/9/17)
Source: Ghana Business News - Q&A: How a new law in Mali is securing villagers’ rights to land (8/10/17)
Source: IIED - Sierra Leone News: Reviewing mining and agricultural land issues (8/10/17)
Source: Awoko - South Africa: Put land in the hands of women – PAP MPs (8/10/17)
Source: The Independant - Tanzania: Kilombero residents to receive over 2,000 land certificates (8/13/17)
Source: Daily News
Americas
- Modernizing land records in Honduras can help stem violence, says analyst (8/11/17)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Asia
- India: Securing Land Rights for the Poor is Key to Telangana’s Success (8/8/17)
Source: Landesa - Indian state to give property rights to slum dwellers in ‘historic’ step (8/8/17)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Indian states look to digitize land deals with blockchain (8/10/17)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - India: Can Amaravati set land pooling example for a city built from scratch? (8/11/17)
Source: Citizen Matters - India: GIS-enabled portal maps land-related information (8/13/17)
Source: The Hindu - India: Cidco offers perpetual lease of land in lieu of freehold, to give more rights to buyers (8/13/17)
Source: The Times of India - Poverty, land rights feature at film festival in Indonesia’s Papua (8/11/17)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Indonesia: Government accelerates land certification for agrarian reform: Jokowi (8/16/17)
Source: Antara News - Malaysia: International investment blamed for violence and oppression in Sarawak (8/15/17)
Source: Mongabay