Land Matters Media Scan – 4 May 2018

USAID

1. Tenure and Global Climate Change (TGCC) Program Final Report (5/4/18)
   Source: USAID LandLinks
2. Chocolate’s Sustainability Challenge – Written by Jeff King, highlighting TGCC’s partnership with Hershey’s & ECOM in Ghana (5/2/18)
   Source: Project Syndicate
3. We Always had the Authority to Do Our Work, USAID Made it Easier to Operate (5/2/18)
   Source: USAID LRDP Colombia
4. Cross-posted articles from Agrilinks’ “Land Tenure Month”
   1. Land Policy for the Next Generation (5/2/18)
      Source: Agrilinks / LandLinks
   2. Improving Large Scale Agriculture Investments (5/2/18)
      Source: Agrilinks / LandLinks
   3. Six Myths About Youth and Land – Written by Chemonics’ Michael Brown (5/2/18)
      Source: Agrilinks / LandLinks
   4. Q&A on the Interconnections Between Land Tenure and Food Security (5/2/18)
      Source: Agrilinks / LandLinks
   5. The African Land Policy Centre Helps Lead the Land Reform Agenda (5/2/18)
      Source: Agrilinks / LandLinks
   6. Improving the Economic Benefits of Landholders in Ethiopia (5/2/18)
      Source: Agrilinks / LandLinks
5. Community land rights open investment opportunities in global south – mentions USAID’s involvement in community-led forest projects (4/13/18)
   Source: Global Landscape Forum

Upcoming Events

1. Global Landscape Forum Washington, D.C. 2018 (5/30/18)
   Source: Global Landscape Forum

Reports and Publications

1. Indigenous peoples’ collective rights to lands, territories and natural resources (4/15/18)
   Source: IFAD
   Related report: Indigenous peoples’ collective rights to lands, territories and natural resources

Global

1. Need better property rights and land tenure security data? Build in-country partnerships (4/26/18)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Indigenous Peoples

1. Brazil: Indigenous Brazilians rally to demand land rights protection (4/25/18)
   Source: Al Jazeera
2. Brazil: Land activist and descendant of slaves slain in Brazil’s Amazon (4/17/18)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
3. Colombia takes ‘unprecedented’ step to stop farms gobbling forests (4/11/18)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
4. Guatemala: structural violence driving displacement and disrupting indigenous communities, especially women (4/18/18)
   Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
5. India: Murder of eight-year-old in India tied to nomadic land rights, activists say (4/17/18)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
6. India: Assam to adopt new policy to protect the land rights of indigenous people (4/25/18)
   Source: Hindustan Times
7. Kenya’s forest people hope reforms will stem graft and evictions (4/23/18)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
8. Mexico: Landlords Impede Land Restitution to Indigenous Wixarika People (4/16/18)
   Source: Telesur
9. Nigeria’s communal violence: It’s about more than land (4/26/18)
   Source: Deutsche Welle
10. Peru: The Right to Land (4/16/18)
    Source: UNDP
11. Philippines: With pink vests and protests, Philippine clergy bless land rights struggle (4/24/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Africa

1. Angola: Securing land and livelihoods in Angola (4/26/18)
   Source: The Luthern World Federation
2. Kenya: Gold Barred: In Rural Kenya, Women Banned From Mining Their Own Land (4/18/18)
   Source: News Deeply
3. Kenya suspends land allocation as nine injured in attacks (4/19/18)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
4. Liberians plan sit-in to pressure Weah to protect land rights (4/12/18)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
5. Sierra Leone: DeBeers rolls out app to clean up Sierra Leone diamond supply chain (4/19/18)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
6. Sudan: Blood and gold: Now Sudan’s land wars have spread to mining (4/21/18)
   Source: Middle East Eye
7. Uganda: Returning LRA hostages face new ordeal over land conflicts in rural Uganda (5/1/18)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
8. Zimbabwe’s New Government Pushes to Strengthen Agriculture (4/25/18)
   Source: AgriBusiness Global

Asia

1. India: Using blockchain to make land registry more reliable in India (4/13/18)
   Source: LSE Business Review
2. In India, this group helps turn wasteland into greener pastures (4/19/18)
   Source: PBS
3. Indonesia: Why social forestry: Securing the sap (4/17/18)
   Source: CIFOR