Land Matters Media Scan – 7 October 2017

USAID

1. How Land Rights Can Help End Hunger – written by Sarah Lowery (10/4/17)
   Source: Agrilinks
2. The Fight for Land (10/4/17)
   Source: USAID Colombia LRDP
3. Request for Information: USAID/DRC’s Responsible Minerals Program Planning (9/27/17)
   Source: USAID LandLinks / FBO
4. Securing Land Rights: Making Land Titling Work in Rwanda, 2012-2017 – cites USAID’s Rwanda LAND Project (9/1/17)
   Source: Innovations for Successful Societies
5. Millennium Challenge Account-Morocco: Procurement Notice (10/4/17)
   Source: USAID LandLinks / MCA-Morocco

Events

1. Responsible Large Scale Agricultural Investment in the Mekong Region: an online dialogue, 9-20 October 2017 (10/9-20/17)
   Source: Land Portal
2. Learning Initiative on Innovative practices and tools to reduce land use conflicts between farmers and livestock keepers (9/22-10/1/17)
   Source: Land Portal

Reports and Publications

1. Related report: Tenure and Investment in Southeast Asia
2. FIDH report warns of “potential land conflict epidemic” (9/29/17)
   Source: Myanmar Times
   Related report: Land of Sorrow: Human rights violations at Myanmar’s Myotha Industrial Park
   Related report: Securing Community Land Rights
3. Human rights in tension: guiding cadastral systems development in customary land rights contexts (9/29/17)
   Source: Survey Review
   Related report: Human rights in tension: guiding cadastral systems development in customary land rights contexts
4. Dutch-Libyan report on resolving property disputes in post-Qaddafi Libya published (9/27/17)
   Source: Libya Herald
   Related report: Resolving real property disputes in post-Qaddafi Libya, in the context of transitional justice

Global

1. Opinion: Leaving no one behind — Why land rights must be the linchpin of sustainable development (10/3/17)
   Source: Devex
2. Land Governance Assessment Framework (10/2/17)
   Source: The World Bank
3. Habitat for all: secure land tenure and property rights matter (10/2/17)
   Source: Royal Town Planning Institute
4. Community Land Protection and the SDGs (9/29/17)
   Source: Land Portal
5. Lorenzo Cotula and Thierry Berger: On Transparency around Land Investment Contracts (9/26/17)
   Source: Earth Institute, Columbia University
6. Farmland Investments Are Finding their Way to International Arbitration (9/20/17)
   Source: IISD

Indigenous Peoples

1. First global funding pact launched to secure indigenous land rights (10/3/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
2. Mobile app uses real-time satellite data to strengthen forest and land rights (9/26/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
3. Land tenure for forest peoples, part of the solution for sustainable development (9/29/17)
   Source: The World Bank
4. Legalization of Indigenous Territories in Colombia (9/29/17)
   Source: The Amazon Conservation Team
5. “Stewards Of The Forest”: New Film Shines Light On Indigenous Life Plans (9/29/17)
   Source: Ecosystem Marketplace
6. Wapichan Set Up Ground-breaking System to Defend Human Rights and Monitor Ancestral Lands (9/20/17)
   Source: Intercontinental Cry

Africa

1. Securing Land Rights in Africa – written by Frank Pichel (10/4/17)
   Source: Project Syndicate
2. Mozambique: Sustainable Investments Are Not Always What They Seem (9/21/17)
   Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
3. Sierra Leone News: Fourth stakeholder’s platform on VGGT implementation ends (9/27/17)
   Source: Awoko
4. South Africa: Court declares land tenure act invalid (9/27/17)
   Source: GroundUp
5. Tanzania: Achieving SDGs through land rights (tenure security) for women (10/5/17)
   Source: Land Portal
6. Tanzania: Throwing money at displaced communities is not enough (9/26/17)
   Source: Oxfam

Americas

1. Canada: Nova Scotia Giving Black Residents $2.7 Million To Settle Land Rights (9/27/17)
   Source: Huffington Post Canada
2. Colombia: The FARC, land reform, and the future of Colombia’s security (10/1/17)
   Source: Global Risk Insights

Asia

1. India: In State-Level Changes to Land Laws, a Return to Land Grabbing in Development’s Name (9/28/17)
   Source: The Wire
2. India’s bullet train project reignites debate on land for ‘public purpose’ (9/25/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
3. Myanmar Govt to Redistribute Vacant Land (9/26/17)
   Source: The Irrawaddy
4. Thailand: Rural Thais Converge on Bangkok to ask Gov’t to end Evictions (9/25/17)
   Source: Khaosod English