Land Matters Media Scan – 5 January 2018

USAID

1. Three organizations lead farmers to document their farmlands – mentions USAID’s Tenure and Global Climate Change Project in Ghana (12/24/17)
   Source: Ghana News Agency

Upcoming Events

1. Land Tenure and Property Rights MOOC 3.0 (1/8-4/15/18)
   Source: USAID LandLinks
2. Customary Land Recognition: Zambian Approach to Documentation and Administration (1/15-2/6/18)
   Source: Land Portal Foundation

Reports and Publications

1. In the hands of farmers: Ethiopia’s push to restore degraded lands (12/28/17)
   Source: CIFOR
   Related report: Exclosures as forest and landscape restoration tools: lessons from Tigray Region, Ethiopia

Global

1. Here’s what you need to know from the Global Landscapes Forum (12/22/17)
   Source: Devex
2. UN plans to double farmers’ income in Africa in three years (12/21/17)
   Source: Down to Earth
3. Bitcoin, blockchain and the fight against poverty (12/22/17)
   Source: Financial Times (subscription req’d)
4. Homelessness to digital IDs: five property rights hotspots in 2018 (12/26/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Indigenous Peoples

1. Braiding Science Together with Indigenous Knowledge (12/21/17)
   Source: Scientific American
2. 5 Maps Show How Important Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are to the Environment (12/20/17)
   Source: World Resources Institute
3. Kenya: Forest is our ancestral land, Sengwer community say resisting eviction (1/3/18)
   Source: Capital News
4. Paraguay: An Indigenous Community in Paraguay Faces One of the Biggest Hydroelectric Dams in the World (12/23/17)
   Source: Global Voices

Africa

1. In Ghana, a feminist push for fairer farming (12/20/17)
   Source: The Christian Science Monitor
2. Rwanda: New study shows rise in land disputes, efficiency of Abunzi (12/22/17)
   Source: New Times
3. South Africa: Motlanthe’s Land-Reform Panel Idea A Step In Right Direction (12/22/17)
   Source: Huffington Post South Africa
4. South Africa: #LandExpropriation ANC’s land policy may stoke tensions, farmers warn (12/24/17)
   Source: IOL

Americas

1. Barbuda fears land rights loss in bid to spread tourism from Antigua (12/27/17)
   Source: The Guardian
2. Amid surging conflict, Brazil launches digital tool to monitor changes in land use (12/21/17)
   Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
3. Colombia: Land and Peace (1/4/18)
   Source: PBI Colombia
4. Colombia: ‘It’s a perverse system’: how Colombia’s farmers are reforesting their logged land (12/29/17)
   Source: The Guardian

Asia

1. Burma: A farmers activist is beaten to death, and the video goes viral. How tensions over land are tearing at Myanmar (12/29/17)
   Source: Los Angeles Times
2. Cambodia: Disputes over land fall in 2017 (1/1/18)
   Source: Khmer Times
3. Cambodia: Agriculture sector has seen its share of empty promises (12/27/17)
   Source: The Phnom Penh Post
4. India: Legal Loopholes That Plague Land Titling in India (12/20/17)
   Source: The Wire

Pacific

1. The Solomon Islands: Landowners to rescue Solomon Islands mine – and perhaps more (12/21/17)
   Source: Lowy Institute