Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:
USAID
- Harvesting Sweet Success: How Land Rights are Helping Tajikistan’s Apricot Farmers Reap the Fruits of their Labor (11/28/16)
Source: Medium / USAIDEnviro - From the Ground Up: USAID brings together farmers, communities, and the government of Burma … (11/18/16)
Source: Medium / USAIDEnviro
Events
- Land Tenure and Property Rights MOOC 2.0 (Registration Open)
Source: USAID LandLinks - Webinar Wednesday: Land Tenure in Tanzania (12/7/16)
Source: USAID LandLinks - Artisanal Mining, Property Rights, and Development (12/13/16)
Source: USAID LandLinks - Online Debate on Land Valuation and Fair Compensation (11/28-12/16/16)
Source: Land Portal
Global
- Land rights; a source of economic stability, security for women living with HIV (12/1/16)
Source: MyJoyOnline - Renewable energy is violating human rights as much as fossil fuels have for decades (11/25/16)
Source: Quartz - Getting to Sustainable Palm Oil: A Hardware and Software Approach to a Market Problem (11/23/16)
Source: New Security Beat blog
Africa
- Africa: Pastoralists’ Complex Tenure Rights Are Key to Community Resilience (11/25/16)
Source: AllAfrica / FAO - DRC Launches DFID-Funded Land Governance Programme to support peace and stability (11/23/16)
Source: ReliefWeb / UN-Habitat - Nigeria: Parliament Condemns Land Grab By Chinese Firms (11/29/16)
Source: AllAfrica / Premium Times - Tanzania: Making National Land Policy Inclusive and People-Centred [sic] (11/29/16)
Source: AllAfrica / The Citizen - Kenyans sound alarm over election threat to public land (11/29/16)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Kenya: Legal access to land rights does little to better plight of female Kenyan farmers (11/22/16)
Source: New York Times - Uganda: Customary Land Titles to End Conflicts – Officials (11/23/16)
Source: AllAfrica / The Monitor
Americas
- Land Distribution Most Unequal in Latin America, Charity Says (11/30/16)
Source: Voice of America / Reuters - Bolivia: Rights Campaigners: Mining Projects, Big Plantations Mean Bolivia’s Drought Hurts More (11/28/16)
Source: Voice of America / Reuters
Asia
- ‘Leopard skin’ plan helps Cambodia farmers stay on large land concessions (11/29/16)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Related: TIMELINE-Land politics in Cambodia (11/29/16)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - China steps up protection of property rights (11/27/16)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Pacific
- Guam Land Could Go to Traditional Chamorro Healers (11/29/16)
Source: Voice of America - Malaysian DJ samples indigenous music to spread land rights message (11/28/16)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation