Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:
USAID
- USAID Land Champion: Zemen Haddis, PhD (2/6/18)
Source: USAID LandLinks - Historical Land Decree for Women (2/7/18)
Source: USAID Colombia LRDP
Upcoming Events
- Land Tenure and Property Rights MOOC 3.0 (1/8-4/15/18)
Source: USAID LandLinks - Helping Smallholders Make the Most of Maize Through Loans and Storage Technology: Evidence from Tanzania (2/22/18)
Source: Agrilinks
Reports and Publications
- Housing, land and property rights and peace agreements: Guidance for the Myanmar peace process (2/7/18)
Source: Relief Web
Related report: Housing, land and property rights and peace agreements: Guidance for the Myanmar peace process - Hindering instead of helping in Uganda (2/8/18)
Source: CIFOR - Compensation for Expropriated Community Farmland in Nigeria: An In-Depth Analysis of the Laws and Practices Related to Land Expropriation for the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos (2/11/18)
Source: Land Portal Foundation
Related report: Compensation for Expropriated Community Farmland in Nigeria: An In-Depth Analysis of the Laws and Practices Related to Land Expropriation for the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos
Global
- Land Rights: A Crucial Strategy for Combatting Climate Change (1/29/18)
Source: Land Portal Foundation - PepsiCo is moving from policy to practice (2/6/18)
Source: Oxfam - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy launches global campaign to promote land value capture (2/7/18)
Source: PR Newswire - Killings and threats against land rights defenders soar in 2017: rights group (2/6/18)
Source: Thompson Reuters Foundation
Indigenous Peoples
- Brazilian Supreme Court ruling protects Quilombola land rights for now (2/13/18)
Source: Mongabay - Brazil: Land fight simmers over Brasilia’s Shrine of Shamans (2/6/18)
Source: Thompson Reuters Foundation - Indonesia: No Better Time for Indonesia’s Indigenous Communities to Reclaim Land Rights (2/8/18)
Source: World Resources Institute - Nigeria’s ‘cattle colony’ problem (2/8/18)
Source: Al Jazeera - The Philippines: Palace defends investors’ entry into Lumad land (2/4/18)
Source: Inquirer.net
Africa
- Agriculture feeding Africa’s economic transformation (2/5/18)
Source: The Guardian - Kenya: State to seize 77,000 acres of unclaimed land (2/13/18)
Source: Standard Digital - Kenya: So much land, yet so many people hungry (2/3/18)
Source: The Star - South Africa: Addressing shortcomings of land tenure reform in customary land rights (2/15/18)
Source: EE Publishers
Americas
- Scorched earth: Colombia’s ‘refugee farmers’ returning to land (2/9/18)
Source: Mongabay
Asia
- Afghanistan: Govt Defines First Ever Five-Year Land Rights Policy (2/15/18)
Source: TOLO News - Cambodia killings show rising risk to Southeast Asian land defenders (2/6/18)
Source: Thompson Reuters Foundation - Cambodian Court Upholds Conviction of Prominent Land Rights Activist (2/7/18)
Source: U.S. News & World Report - China’s ‘No. 1 Document’ to continue land reforms as part of revitalization strategy (2/4/18)
Source: Global Times - India: Here is why states must legalise land leasing (2/7/18)
Source: Financial Express - India: Why the Budget may not benefit the female kisan (2/12/18)
Source: Times of India - India aims to deliver groundbreaking agricultural blockchain (2/14/18)
Source: Finder - Nepal: How an all-women farm in Nepal is giving hope to mothers and children (2/2/18)
Source: Pacific Standard
Pacific
- Papua New Guinea: UN human rights chief laments PNG land grab problem (2/12/18)
Source: RNZ