Land Matters Media Scan – 13 April 2018

USAID

1. This April, Agrilinks and Landlinks Team up on Land Tenure for Food Security (3/28/18)
   Source: Agrilinks
2. Lessons in Land Tenure: Programming in Practice – mentions LGSA, TGCC Burma, LTA Tanzania, & the recent Ilovo responsible land-based investment webinar (4/3/18)
   Source: Agrilinks
3. Feed the Future Global Food Security BAA (4/10/18)
   Source: Agrilinks

Upcoming Events

1. Open Contracting in Land: Finding a Way Forward Brown Bag Lunch (4/23/18)
   Source: OpenGov Hub
2. Overcoming Gender Barriers to Accessing and Using Climate Information Services (4/25/18)
   Source: Agrilinks

Reports and Publications

1. FAO Land Resources Planning Toolbox Available on the Web (4/2/18)
   Source: Agrilinks
   Related report: Land Resources Planning Toolbox
2. Land Corruption Hits Women Farmers Hardest (4/6/18)
   Source: News Deeply
   Related report: Women, Land and Corruption: Resources for Practitioners and Policy-Makers
3. Responding to land-based conflict in Ethiopia: The land rights of ethnic minorities under federalism (3/29/18)
   Source: Oxford African Affairs
   Related report: Responding to land-based conflict in Ethiopia: The land rights of ethnic minorities under federalism

Global

1. Land and Natural Resources Tenure: Rights and Policy Challenges (4/10/18)
   Source: Agrilinks

Indigenous Peoples

1. Bangladesh: Indigenous People of Plains: Forming land commission not enough (4/6/18)
   Source: The Daily Star
2. Brazil averts “a massacre” by blocking eviction of Indians (4/11/18)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
3. Cameroon: Rubber plantation in Cameroon edges closer to UNESCO World Heritage Site (4/6/18)
   Source: Mongabay
4. Ecuador: ‘Our territory is our life’: one struggle against mining in Ecuador (4/9/18)
   Source: The Guardian
5. Indonesia peatland swap plan questioned over deforestation risk (4/6/18)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
6. Peru: Uncontacted tribes’ rights recognized in Peru’s historic land pledge (4/5/18)
   Source: Survival International
7. Philippines: Land tenure issues in Boracay (4/12/18)
   Source: The Manila Times

Africa

1. Burkina Faso: Deutsche Welthungerhilfe launches a land tenure project for small-scale farmers (4/6/18)
   Source: Ecofin Agency
2. Côte d’Ivoire: Government launched a project to reduce rural land conflicts (4/4/18)
   Source: Ecofin Agency
3. South Africa: DA Resolution Rubberstamps Opposition to Land Expropriation Without Compensation (4/7/18)
   Source: Eyewitness News
4. Tanzania: Branded as Witches, Stripped of Land: Tanzania’s Widows Need Support – written by Landesa’s Monica Mhoja (4/12/18)
   Source: News Deeply
5. Zimbabwe: Gold miners in Zimbabwe seize Grace Mugabe’s farm amid land dispute (4/9/18)
   Source: TRT World

Americas

1. Colombia: 8 police killed in attack on land restitution commission in northwest Colombia (4/11/18)
   Source: Colombia Reports

Asia

1. Cambodia: Nearly 300 families living on islands given land titles (4/6/18)
   Source: Khmer Times
2. India: Thousands of Farmers March to Shimla, Demand Land Rights (4/3/18)
   Source: The Wire
3. Pakistan: Fishing communities protest against occupation of their land (4/6/18)
   Source: The Express Tribune
4. Thailand: Rights in poorer nations must be upheld as Thai firms go abroad, activists say (4/10/18)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Pacific

1. Hundreds gather in Samoa to protest about land rights (4/11/18)
   Source: Radio New Zealand