Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:
USAID
- Land Rights are Women’s Rights (7/5/17)
Source: USAID Colombia LRDP - Getting Answers (6/21/17)
Source: USAID Colombia LRDP - Kenya’s nomads swap guns for tourist dollars to end turf wars – mentions USAID’s partnership with the Northern Rangelands Trust (6/30/17)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Reports and Publications
- Kenya Drought Crisis: A Call for Action (7/4/17)
Source: Oxfam / ReliefWeb - Here’s why growing cities should tax land to pay for essential services (7/3/17)
Source: CityMetric
Related brief: Financing fast-growing cities - Related paper: Large scale land acquisitions and REDD+: a synthesis of conflicts and opportunities
Global
- This company helps African farmers secure their land rights – written by Karol Boudreaux (6/29/17)
Source: Learn Liberty - Is REDD+ playing fair? (7/5/17)
Source: CIFOR - Ivanka Trump and the World Bank have a new idea to help women globally (7/8/17)
Source: The Washington Post
Indigenous Peoples
- Australia: How Indigenous Australians Are Still Fighting for Their Lands 25 Years After a Landmark Court Case
(6/30/17)
Source: Smithsonian - Brazil: Google integrates Brazil’s indigenous territories into its maps (7/2/17)
Source: The Economic Times - Peru: ‘Politicians only see gold and oil in our lands’: the Wampis nation of Peru – photo essay (7/4/17)
Source: The Guardian
Africa
- Ghana: Cocoa stakeholders meet on government’s new Inputs policy (7/7/17)
Source: Ghana News Agency - Ghana: Lands Ministry urged to constitute Minerals Development Fund Board (6/29/17)
Source: News Ghana - DRC: Challenging Family and Custom, Women Assert Legal Right to Inherit Land (7/2/17)
Source: Global Press Journal - Kenya: Power to Africa Volume 3: Kenya – Part 2 (7/4/17)
Source: Lexology - Liberia: Law Society Urges the Passage of the Land Rights Act (6/28/17)
Source: AllAfrica / The Capitol Times (Monrovia) - Conflict averted as Nigeria’s warring herdsmen and farmers find common ground (6/29/17)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Sierra Leone: Food And Agriculture Organization Sensitizes Parliament (6/28/17)
Source: Sierra Express Media - Sierra Leone: Civic society calls on government to take land management issue “seriously” (6/28/17)
Source: Ecofin Agency - South Africa: Three policies at the ANC’s national conference that should worry investors (6/29/17)
Source: Business Tech - Related: REFILE-South African ANC leadership battle overshadows policy debate (6/29/17)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Tanzania: History Made As Maasai Women Own Land (6/29/17)
Source: AllAfrica / The Citizen - Zambia: Sub-Saharan Africa Widows Increase Worries Gender Link (6/3/17)
Source: AllAfrica / Times of Zambia - Zimbabwe: Beyond the freehold title obsession: generating land tenure security (7/3/17)
Source: The Zimbabwaen - Zimbabwe: How badly implemented land reform can affect wildlife: a Zimbabwean case study (7/3/17)
Source: The Conversation
Americas
- Brazil: Shady slaughterhouses, ‘cow laundering’ drive spike in Amazon deforestation (7/4/17)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Brazil: Rural Amazon violence rises amid bureaucratic mess over land titles (7/6/17)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - Colombia: Land Reform and Food Security Key to Peace in Colombia: FAO (7/6/17)
Source: TeleSUR - Colombia: Deforestation soars in Colombia after Farc rebels’ demobilization (7/11/17)
Source: The Guardian
Asia
- India: ‘Give her property, not dowry’: Online campaign seeks equal rights for women in South Asia (7/5/17)
Source: The News Minute - Related: Property rights campaign for women takes aim at patriarchy in South Asia (7/6/17)
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation - India: Digital land mapping faulty, will lead to conflict: Congress (7/6/17)
Source: Indian Express
Pacific
- Solomon Islands: Life along the vanishing shorelines of the Solomon Islands – in pictures (6/23/17)
Source: The Guardian