Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:
USAID
- To Effectively Reach a Population, We Need to Coordinate with All Institutions (9/6/17)
Source: USAID Colombia LRDP - Tracking Land-Related SDGs: New Addition to the Land Portal (9/6/17)
Source: USAID LandLinks / Land Portal - Dialogue that Matters: USAID Talks Tenure with University Students (9/6/17)
Source: USAID LandLinks / LTP - Volunteers for International Security and Prosperity (VISP) (9/6/17)
Source: USAID LandLinks - Global Donor Working Group on Land Updates on the SDG Land Indicator 1.4.2 (9/7/17)
Source: USAID LandLinks / GDWGL
Upcoming Events
- Ask the Experts: Webinar on the Future of Land-Related Indicators in the 2030 Agenda (9/18/17)
Source: Land Portal
Global
- Finding a way in for better landscape governance (8/15/17)
Source: CIFOR - Opinion: Forging the link between land administration and sustainable communities (8/25/17)
Source: Devex - Easing Land Conflict in DRC: An Introduction to Open-Source Mapping Tools (8/30/17)
Source: Engineering for Change
Indigenous Peoples
- INTERVIEW-Engaging with indigenous people benefits business, environment – U.N. expert (8/8/17)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Site C Dam Project Will ‘Irreversibly Damage’ Indigenous Lands, UN Panel Says (8/28/17)
Source: Huffington Post Canada - Native title claims: federal court delivers stinging criticism of NSW government (8/31/17)
Source: The Guardian - Tribal leaders worried as battle to open up the Amazon to mining rages (9/1/17)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Adani’s Australian mine won’t start until they have a land agreement with us: Indigenous activist (9/2/17)
Source: National Herald - Land Law Should Honor Native Claims: Malaysian Activists (9/4/17)
Source: Benar News
Africa
- Liberia: ‘Senate Not Pressurized to Pass Land Rights Act’ (8/29/17)
Source: Daily Observer - South Africa: Court orders lawyers to resolve conflicts over land invasions (9/2/17)
Source: IOL / Independent on Saturday - South Africa: Land reform beneficiaries can help alleviate poverty (9/3/17)
Source: IOL / The Sunday Independent - Uganda: Land Portal Foundation and Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) launch Uganda Country Portfolio that identifies key land governance challenges and trends (8/28/17)
Source: Land Portal - Zimbabwe: Be transparent, Govt urges Land Commission (9/5/17)
Source: The Herald
Americas
- Brazil: Quilombolas’ community land rights under attack by Brazilian ruralists (8/25/17)
Source: Mongabay - Brazil suspends Amazon mining decree in face of criticism (8/31/17)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Canada: Lacking land rights, historic black communities in Canada seek change (9/6/17)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Guyana goes after stolen ancestral Afro land (8/31/17)
Source: Amsterdam News
Asia
- Cambodia: Under Threat of Jail, Women Activists Fight Cambodian Lake Land Grab (8/25/17)
Source: News Deeply - Cambodia: Solution in sight for land disputes (9/4/17)
Source: Khmer Times - Cambodia: Protected land to become state property (9/5/17)
Source: Khmer Times - India: As men migrate to cities, women farmers seek Indian land rights (8/30/17)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Malaysia: Gatco settlers get stay order against company developing land (8/28/17)
Source: Free Malaysia Today - Philippine palm oil plan ‘equals corruption and land-grabbing,’ critics say (8/31/17)
Source: Mongabay - The Philippines: DAR: Farmers can occupy farmlands under protest (8/26/17)
Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer - Risk and reward in Vietnam’s real estate as investors ignore uncertainty over future of land rights (8/24/17)
Source: Duane Morris
Europe
- Ukraine: Justice Ministry developing new online services for landowners (8/31/17)
Source: Ukrinform