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Land Matters Media Scan – 29 June 2018

Posted on by Amrit Bhandari

Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:

USAID

  1. Risky business: Tenure Issues Main Deterrent for Investment – mentions the Investor Survey On Land Rights 2018 (6/19/18)
    Source: CIFOR
  2. Are Medium-Scale Farms Driving Agricultural Transformation in Africa? (6/21/18)
    Source: Agrilinks
  3. Designing the LandPKS App: Guidelines for Developing a Global App (6/20/18)
    Source: Land-Potential Knowledge System
  4. Evaluation of the Community Land Protection Program in Liberia (6/20/18)
    Source: USAID CLPP Liberia
  5. USAID Land Champion: Stephen Brooks (6/21/18)
    Source: USAID LandLinks
  6. Farmers Need to Start Seeing their Farms as a Business (6/18/18)
    Source: USAID LRDP Colombia

Upcoming Events

  1. The Liberia Land Rights Act (7/9-30/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation

Reports and Publications

  1. How Land Reform Can Help Reduce Terrorism in Pakistan (6/21/18)
    Source: The Diplomat
    Related report: Punjab Land Records Management and Information Systems Project
  2. IMF Releases Paper on Foreign Direct Investment in Farm Land (6/23/18)
    Source: Devdiscourse
    Related report: The Globalization of Farmland: Theory and Empirical Evidence
  3. “Gender, Land and Mining in Pastoralist Tanzania” – New Report from WOLTS Team (6/20/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation
    Related report: Gender, Land and Mining in Pastoralist Tanzania

Global

  1. How to Take Forest Landscape Restoration to the Next Level (6/18/18)
    Source: CIFOR
  2. Grassroots Participation is the Key to Closing the Data and Gender Gaps (6/11/18)
    Source: Women Deliver

Indigenous Peoples

  1. 5 Ways Indigenous Groups are Fighting Back Against Land Seizures (6/20/18)
    Source: World Resources Institute
  2. Chile: ‘We Burned the Forest’: The Indigenous Chileans Fighting Loggers with Arson (6/14/18)
    Source: The Guardian
  3. Guyana: Protecting Forests by Protecting Rights (6/27/18)
    Source: Rainforest Foundation
  4. Honduras: Indigenous Garifuna Use Radio to Fight for their Land (6/25/18)
    Source: Mongabay
  5. Peru: Indigenous People in the Amazon are Using Drones to Save their Land (6/7/18)
    Source: Fast Company
  6. Thailand: Verdict a Blow to Customary Land Rights (6/16/18)
    Source: Bangkok Post

Africa

  1. Kenya: State Launches New Policy to Tackle Land Woes (6/13/18)
    Source: Daily Nation
  2. Women Call on Liberia’s Weah to Keep His Promise of Equal Land Rights (6/20/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  3. South Africa: Bungled Land Claims have Created Tinderboxes in SA’s Rural Areas (6/15/18)
    Source: Business Day
  4. Uganda: Greater Rights for Women in Uganda Lead to Large-scale Reforestation Initiative (6/18/18)
    Source: GLF
  5. Uganda: A Land Eviction Portal in Uganda has been Launched to Track and Document Land Evictions (6/20/18)
    Source: Witness Radio

The Americas

  1. ‘Narco-deforestation’ May Boost Disaster Risks in Central America (6/20/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  2. Brazil: Competing Claims Complicate Land Ownership for Brazil’s Slave Descendants (6/20/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Asia

  1. India: Odisha is Breaking the Patriarchy, One Deed at a Time (6/23/18)
    Source: Livemint
  2. India: Caste-based Killing in India Over Land Prompts Call for Government Action (6/25/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  3. Indonesia: How Corrupt Elections Fuel the Sell-off of Indonesia’s Natural Resources (6/7/18)
    Source: Mongabay
  4. Philippines: Community Takes Lead to Rebuild Philippine City after Siege (6/22/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Land Matters Media Scan – 8 June 2018

Posted on by Amrit Bhandari

Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:

USAID

  1. Investor Survey On Land Rights: Full Report (6/1/18)
    Source: USAID LandLinks
  2. The Sweet Expression of Panela (6/5/18)
    Source: USAID LRDP Colombia

Upcoming Events

  1. Sextortion and Land Governance: What is it and How can it be Tackled? (6/25/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation

Reports and Publications

  1. Ten Years of DS Efforts on Housing, Land and Property Rights in Myanmar – An Overview (6/4/18)
    Source: Displacement Solutions
    Related report: Housing, Land and Property Rights in Myanmar
  2. Southwest Afghanistan’s Bare Land has Become Home to Up to 2.2 Million People (5/20/18)
    Source: MENAFN
  3. A New Era of Land Struggle on the Horizon – Holding Governments to their Commitments to Collective Tenure (6/1/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation
    Related report: Collective Land Ownership in the 21st Century: Overview of Global Trends
  4. Rural Poor Squeezed by Land Concessions in Mekong Region – Report (5/29/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Global

  1. Thinking Holistically About Women’s Land Rights (5/17/18)
    Source: Agrilinks
  2. Using the ‘Four Powers’ to Tackle Land Use Dilemmas (5/22/18)
    Source: CIFOR
  3. A Place of Her Own: Women’s Right to Land (5/21/18)
    Source: Council on Foreign Relations
  4. To End Deforestation, We Must Protect Community Land Rights (5/31/18)
    Source: World Economic Forum

Indigenous Peoples

  1. For Indigenous Peoples, Losing Land Can Mean Losing Lives (5/31/18)
    Source: World Resources Institute
  2. Brazil: Beleaguered Amazon Tribes Remain Staunch in Defence of their Land (5/28/18)
    Source: The Guardian
  3. Ecuador’s Indigenous Waorani Launch Petition to Save the Amazon (5/23/18)
    Source: Al Jazeera
  4. India: In Assam, a Government-appointed Panel Suggests Farmland be Reserved for ‘Indigenous People’ (5/18/18)
    Source: Scroll.in
  5. Kenya: Hope for Evicted Forest People as Kenya Vows to Honour Landmark Ruling (5/31/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  6. Peru: Are Corrupt Politicians Behind Peru’s Palm Oil Plantations? (5/31/18)
    Source: Deustche Welle
  7. Tanzania: Half a Million of Indigenous Peoples’ Livelihoods Threatened in Tanzania (5/22/18)
    Source: IWGIA

Africa

  1. New Scramble for Africa: Is her land safe? (5/29/18)
    Source: Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa
  2. Africa’s Women are Still Waiting for Equal Inheritance Rights (5/24/18)
    Source: Landesa
  3. Democratic Republic of the Congo: To Protect the Congolese Peatlands, Protect Local Land Rights (commentary) (6/4/18)
    Source: Mongabay
  4. Why Ghana’s Clam Farmers Are Digging GPS (5/27/18)
    Source: NPR
  5. Sierra Leone News: Sierra Leone Women Demand Customary Land Rights (5/25/18)
    Source: Awoko
  6. South Africans’ Anger Over Land Set to Explode (5/30/18)
    Source: BBC
  7. South Africa: South Africa Needs to Reverse Corporate Capture of Agricultural Policy (5/28/18)
    Source: The Conversation
  8. Togo: Parliament Passes New Land Code (6/6/18)
    Source: Togo First

The Americas

  1. Brazil: Between Law and Reality: Understanding De Jure and De Facto Women’s Land Rights in Brazil (6/5/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation
  2. Guatemalan Farmers Occupy Plantation Formerly Owned by Drug Traffickers (5/23/18)
    Source: Waging Nonviolence
  3. Audio: Mexico’s Ejidos Find Sustainability by Including Women and Youth (5/30/18)
    Source: Mongabay

Asia

  1. India: Deadly Disputes Over Land, Environment in India’s Wealthiest States (5/25/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  2. Indonesia: When Palm Oil Meets Politics, Indonesian Farmers Pay the Price (6/5/18)
    Source: Mongabay
  3. Philippine Peasants Fight for Land 30 Years after Reform (5/30/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Land Matters Media Scan – 18 May 2018

Posted on by Amrit Bhandari

Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:

USAID

  1. Taking Back the Trees – Published by USAID’s Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE) program (5/15/18)
    Source: USAID CARPE
  2. Factoring in Land Rights in the Push for Sustainable Landscapes – Interview with Frank Pichel, co-founder of Cadasta Foundation and former USAID Land Tenure & Property Rights specialist (5/17/18)
    Source: Global Landscapes Foundation

Upcoming Events

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

Reports and Publications

  1. The Necessity for Open Data on Land and Property Rights (4/30/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation

Global

  1. Landscape Transformation: What Does Power Have to Do with It? (5/13/18)
    Source: Global Landscapes Forum
  2. Sustaining Sustainable Development: Leveraging Human Rights Norms to Implement Land-Related Goals (5/17/18)
    Source: Impakter
  3. Why Measuring Land Tenure Matters: From the SDGs to Impact Evaluation (5/4/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation

Indigenous Peoples

  1. UNPFII 17 Adopts Recommendations on Collective Rights to Lands, Territories and Resources (4/27/18)
    Source: IISD
  2. Bangladesh: Chittagong Hill Tracts: UNPFII Urges Respect of Accord Amidst Violations from Bangladeshi Government (5/7/18)
    Source: UNPO
  3. Brazil: A Forgotten People: Traditional Amazon Hamlet Fights for its Territory (5/9/18)
    Source: Mongabay
  4. ‘Freedom, but No Dignity’ – Brazil Slave Descendants Fight for Land (5/11/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  5. India: After Decades of Struggle, Rajasthan’s Bhil Adivasis Hope to get Land Rights (5/14/18)
    Source: The Wire
  6. Tanzania: Maasai Herders Driven Off Land to Make Way for Luxury Safaris, Report Says (5/10/18)
    Source: The Guardian

Africa

  1. Men that Champion Women’s Land Rights (5/4/18)
    Source: International Land Coalition
  2. Why Merely Owning Land isn’t Enough to Empower Africa’s Women Farmers (5/14/18)
    Source: The Conversation
  3. Ghana: Upper West Region: Local Authorities Lobby Landlords To Release Lands For Women Farmers (5/5/18)
    Source: Modern Ghana
  4. Why Kenya Hopes Blockchain Can End Land Grabbing (5/4/18)
    Source: BBC News
  5. Women in Kenya Risk Their Livelihoods to Stand Up for Land Rights (5/9/18)
    Source: News Deeply
  6. Kenyan Lawyers Wrangle with Government Over Land Registry Digitisation (5/7/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  7. Liberia: Senators Brace for Heated Land Rights Act Debate (5/9/18)
    Source: Daily Observer
  8. Namibia: Why The Herero Of Namibia Are Suing Germany For Reparations (5/6/18)
    Source: NPR
  9. Sierra Leone’s Small Towns Learn to Fight Against Land Grabs (5/7/18)
    Source: Ozy
  10. South Africa: This Land Is Our Land (5/3/18)
    Source: Foreign Policy
  11. South Africa: Land Redistribution: Government Announce Plans to Fast-track the Policy (5/11/18)
    Source: The South African
  12. Tanzania: Yes, Land Documents are Acceptable as Collateral (5/9/18)
    Source: Daily News

The Americas

  1. This Ungoverned Haitian City is Fighting to Stay Alive (5/15/18)
    Source: Ozy
  2. Venezuela: Maduro Visits Disgruntled Campesino Communities on Campaign Trail, Converses with Communal Leader Prado (4/30/18)
    Source: Venezuela Analysis

Asia

  1. Cambodia: Hundreds Protest Over Land Dispute (5/3/18)
    Source: Khmer Times
  2. India: Land Continues to Remain a Major Concern for Infra, Energy Sector in India (5/12/18)
    Source: Business Standard
  3. India: Land — The Forgotten Issue in Farmers’ Unrest (5/7/18)
    Source: The Hindu
  4. India: Slum Dwellers Get Land Right Certificates (5/8/18)
    Source: The Statesman
  5. Myanmar Court Convicts Farmers of Trespass in ‘Blow’ to Land Rights (5/8/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  6. Nepal: Govt Mulls Leasing Land to Run Transmission Lines (5/9/18)
    Source: The Kathmandu Post
  7. Philippines: Messy Land Ownership in Marawi Complicates Rehabilitation (5/15/18)
    Source: Rappler
  8. Thailand: Anger Over Land Rights Spills into Street Protests in Thailand (5/16/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Land Matters Media Scan – 4 May 2018

Posted on by Amrit Bhandari

Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:

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

Land Matters Media Scan – 13 April 2018

Posted on by Amrit Bhandari

Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:

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

Land Matters Media Scan – 6 April 2018

Posted on by Amrit Bhandari

Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:

USAID

  1. Webinar: The Business Case for Land Rights: Results from the 2018 Investor Survey (4/5/18)
    Source: USAID LandLinks
  2. Webinar: Private Sector Perspectives on Responsible Land-Based Investment, Part II (3/8/18)
    Source: USAID LandLinks
    Related: Private Sector Perspectives on Responsible Land-Based Investment: You Asked, We Answered
  3. USAID and IUCN Partner to Advance Gender in the Environment (3/23/18)
    Source: USAID LandLinks
  4. Colombia: Land Front and Center in Colombia (4/2/18)
    Source: USAID LandLinks
  5. Lessons Learned on Responsible Land-Based Investments in Mozambique – mentions Sarah Lowery (3/1/18)
    Source: Indufor
  6. Kenya: When the Maasai met the Maori: Kenya seeks to end geothermal land conflicts – mentions Power Africa (3/19/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  7. Liberia: Historical Injustices Should Be Addressed by Land Authority – mentions USAID’s LGSA project (3/22/18)
    Source: Daily Observer

Upcoming Events

  1. 3rd Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit (4/23/18 – 4/25/18)
    Source: CIFOR

Reports and Publications

  1. Governing Land Investments: Do Governments Have Legal Support Gaps? (3/19/18)
    Source: Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment
    Related report: Governing Land Investments
  2. Women short-changed on commercial land deals in Africa – report (3/20/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
    Related report: A Fair Share for Women: Toward More Equitable Land Compensation and Resettlement in Tanzania and Mozambique
  3. Managing mining for sustainable development – A Sourcebook (3/20/18)
    Source: UNDP

Global

  1. Legal activism key to securing land rights during new investment phase (3/20/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation
  2. Announcing the launch of the Research Consortium on Women’s Land Rights (3/23/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation
  3. A new global benchmark may reduce land conflicts (3/23/18)
    Source: The Business Times
  4. 10 years on, tenure remains a challenge for REDD+ (3/27/18)
    Source: CIFOR
  5. Up for grabs: How can we use our land sustainably? (4/3/18)
    Source: United Nations Environment Programme
  6. Agroforestry: Why don’t farmers plant more trees? (4/4/18)
    Source: CIFOR

Indigenous Peoples

  1. When rights to land doesn’t mean rights to resources (2/26/18)
    Source: CIFOR
  2. Brazil’s Land Battles (3/5/18)
    Source: World Policy
  3. In eastern Indonesia, a forest tribe pushes back against miners and loggers (3/5/18)
    Source: Mongabay
  4. Ecuador: Keep off our land, indigenous women tell Ecuador’s president (3/23/18)
    Source: The Guardian
  5. Peru: Isolated Tribes and Forests Threatened by New Amazon Road (3/23/18)
    Source: National Geographic
  6. Tech and collaboration are putting indigenous land rights on the map (3/26/18)
    Source: Mongabay

Africa

  1. Cameroon: Legal activism key to securing land rights during new investment phase (3/20/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  2. Kenya: 3,000 Ogieks evicted from forests to get land title deeds (4/1/18)
    Source: The Star
  3. Liberia’s new president must lead on land rights or risk conflict (4/3/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  4. Senegal: Senegal city races to move families as sea swallows homes (4/3/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  5. South Africa: ANC studies new tax to help drive shift in land ownership (4/3/18)
    Source: BusinessDay
  6. South Africa: Land reform policies criticised at HRC inquiry (3/29/18)
    Source: GroundUp
  7. South Africa: Expropriation Without Compensation: This Is The Legal Framework (2/27/18)
    Source: Huffington Post South Africa
  8. Tanzania: Women’s Land Rights and Sustainable Development Goals in Tanzania (3/1/18)
    Source: SDGFunders
  9. Togo: The MCC approved a $35 million threshold program with Togo (4/4/18)
    Source: Togonews
  10. Uganda: ‘Buying air’, or how not to invest in land in Uganda (4/4/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  11. Uganda: Forgotten Women: How one woman is fighting against the brutal Uganda land grabs (3/7/18)
    Source: The Independent
  12. Zambia Should Protect Customary Land Rights (3/27/18)
    Source: Human Rights Watch
  13. Zimbabwe: Widows, land and power (3/19/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Americas

  1. Brazil: Slaves’ descendants in Brazil braced for long fight for land titles (3/6/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  2. Colombia: Understanding the causes of Colombia’s conflict: land ownership (4/3/18)
    Source: Colombia Reports
  3. Latin American countries sign legally binding pact to protect land defenders (3/6/18)
    Source: The Guardian

Asia

  1. Cambodia: A People in Limbo, Many Living Entirely on the Water (3/28/18)
    Source: New York Times
  2. Cambodian farmers sue Thai sugar group Mitr Phol over alleged land grab (4/2/18)
    Source: Thompson Reuters Foundation
  3. India: Eight land-related topics that need to be prioritized and urgently addressed in India – written by Tim Hanstad (2/23/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation
  4. India: Landesa’s Chris Jochnick: Property rights raise a woman’s self-confidence – written by Chris Jochnik (3/10/18)
    Source: Livemint
  5. Mongolia: Property rights in Mongolia: Making space for women? (3/8/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation
  6. Philippines: Coffee conquers conflict for business-savvy farmers in the Philippines (4/3/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  7. A Viral Revolution: Land Rights and the Arab Spring (2/20/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation

Land Matters Media Scan – 16 February 2018

Posted on by Amrit Bhandari

Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:

USAID

  1. USAID Land Champion: Zemen Haddis, PhD (2/6/18)
    Source: USAID LandLinks
  2. Historical Land Decree for Women (2/7/18)
    Source: USAID Colombia LRDP

Upcoming Events

  1. Land Tenure and Property Rights MOOC 3.0 (1/8-4/15/18)
    Source: USAID LandLinks
  2. Helping Smallholders Make the Most of Maize Through Loans and Storage Technology: Evidence from Tanzania (2/22/18)
    Source: Agrilinks

Reports and Publications

  1. Housing, land and property rights and peace agreements: Guidance for the Myanmar peace process (2/7/18)
    Source: Relief Web
    Related report: Housing, land and property rights and peace agreements: Guidance for the Myanmar peace process
  2. Hindering instead of helping in Uganda (2/8/18)
    Source: CIFOR
  3. Compensation for Expropriated Community Farmland in Nigeria: An In-Depth Analysis of the Laws and Practices Related to Land Expropriation for the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos (2/11/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation
    Related report: Compensation for Expropriated Community Farmland in Nigeria: An In-Depth Analysis of the Laws and Practices Related to Land Expropriation for the Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos

Global

  1. Land Rights: A Crucial Strategy for Combatting Climate Change (1/29/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation
  2. PepsiCo is moving from policy to practice (2/6/18)
    Source: Oxfam
  3. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy launches global campaign to promote land value capture (2/7/18)
    Source: PR Newswire
  4. Killings and threats against land rights defenders soar in 2017: rights group (2/6/18)
    Source: Thompson Reuters Foundation

Indigenous Peoples

  1. Brazilian Supreme Court ruling protects Quilombola land rights for now (2/13/18)
    Source: Mongabay
  2. Brazil: Land fight simmers over Brasilia’s Shrine of Shamans (2/6/18)
    Source: Thompson Reuters Foundation
  3. Indonesia: No Better Time for Indonesia’s Indigenous Communities to Reclaim Land Rights (2/8/18)
    Source: World Resources Institute
  4. Nigeria’s ‘cattle colony’ problem (2/8/18)
    Source: Al Jazeera
  5. The Philippines: Palace defends investors’ entry into Lumad land (2/4/18)
    Source: Inquirer.net

Africa

  1. Agriculture feeding Africa’s economic transformation (2/5/18)
    Source: The Guardian
  2. Kenya: State to seize 77,000 acres of unclaimed land (2/13/18)
    Source: Standard Digital
  3. Kenya: So much land, yet so many people hungry (2/3/18)
    Source: The Star
  4. South Africa: Addressing shortcomings of land tenure reform in customary land rights (2/15/18)
    Source: EE Publishers

Americas

  1. Scorched earth: Colombia’s ‘refugee farmers’ returning to land (2/9/18)
    Source: Mongabay

Asia

  1. Afghanistan: Govt Defines First Ever Five-Year Land Rights Policy (2/15/18)
    Source: TOLO News
  2. Cambodia killings show rising risk to Southeast Asian land defenders (2/6/18)
    Source: Thompson Reuters Foundation
  3. Cambodian Court Upholds Conviction of Prominent Land Rights Activist (2/7/18)
    Source: U.S. News & World Report
  4. China’s ‘No. 1 Document’ to continue land reforms as part of revitalization strategy (2/4/18)
    Source: Global Times
  5. India: Here is why states must legalise land leasing (2/7/18)
    Source: Financial Express
  6. India: Why the Budget may not benefit the female kisan (2/12/18)
    Source: Times of India
  7. India aims to deliver groundbreaking agricultural blockchain (2/14/18)
    Source: Finder
  8. Nepal: How an all-women farm in Nepal is giving hope to mothers and children (2/2/18)
    Source: Pacific Standard

Pacific

  1. Papua New Guinea: UN human rights chief laments PNG land grab problem (2/12/18)
    Source: RNZ

Land Matters Media Scan – 2 February 2018

Posted on by Amrit Bhandari

Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:

USAID

  1. Gaining Ground in 2017 (1/30/18)
    Source: USAID LandLinks
  2. Of local people and investors: The dynamics of land rights configuration in Tanzania – references USAID’s Mobile Application to Secure Tenure (1/10/18)
    Source: Danish Institute for International Studies
    Related report: Of local people and investors: The dynamics of land rights configuration in Tanzania
  3. Bolívar is the Pioneer of Secondary Occupants (1/22/18)
    Source: USAID Colombia LRDP
  4. Location Matters! LandPKS Can Provide Point-Scale Soil Information (1/22/18)
    Source: USAID LandPKS
  5. USAID Mobile Applications: Helping Smallholder Farmers Document Their Land Rights (1/25/18)
    Source: USAID LTS

Upcoming Events

  1. Land Tenure and Property Rights MOOC 3.0 (1/8-4/15/18)
    Source: USAID LandLinks
  2. Making Rangelands More Secure (1/29-2/9/18)
    Source: International Land Coalition / Land Portal Foundation
  3. Webinar: Women and Land Rights (2/14/18)
    Source: Namati
  4. India Land And Development Conference 2018 (2/19-21/18)
    Source: NRMC

Reports and Publications

  1. Thousands of people forcibly removed (1/25/18)
    Source: Norwegian Refugee Council
    Related report: Back to Square One
  2. Women left out of forest decisions (1/31/18)
    Source: CIFOR
    Related report: Challenges for women’s participation in communal forests: Experience from Nicaragua’s indigenous territories
  3. African women remain marginalized in land access (report) (1/23/18)
    Source: Econfin Agency
    Related report: Reward work, not wealth
  4. From Tree-Planting Drones to Shade-Grown Tea: Businesses Are Making Money by Reforesting the Planet (1/18/18)
    Source: World Resources Institute
    Related report: The Business of Planting Trees: A Growing Investment Opportunity

Global

  1. Q&A: Why land rights are worth a multimillion dollar investment – Interview with Tim Hanstad (1/25/18)
    Source: Devex
  2. Podcast: Land Ownership Is Key to Addressing Poverty, Especially for Women, Charity Leader Says – Discussion with Chris Jochnick (1/26/18)
    Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Indigenous Peoples

  1. Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities Vital to the Global Environment (1/25/18)
    Source: Inter Press Service
  2. Land grabbing: An urgent issue for indigenous peoples around the world (1/25/18)
    Source: Slow Food
  3. Kenya flushes out ‘criminals’ in forest dispute after Sengwer killing (1/19/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  4. Peru: Protect the Amazon from big business and greed, Pope Francis urges (1/19/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  5. Indonesia: ‘The forest belongs to the community’ (1/22/18)
    Source: CIFOR

Africa

  1. Chad: Climate Change and Conflict in Chad – Using P3DM to secure peace (1/24/18)
    Source: CTA
  2. Senegal: Women sow seeds, not division to build climate resilience in Senegal (1/18/18)
    Source: National Observer
  3. South Africa is getting land reform wrong (1/25/18)
    Source: The Economist
  4. South Africa: King Goodwill Zwelithini set for bruising battle with the ANC over rural land (1/22/18)
    Source: Business Day
  5. In Uganda, change is afoot for rights to forests (1/18/18)
    Source: CIFOR
  6. Zimbabwe: Ten priorities for getting agriculture moving in Zimbabwe (1/24/18)
    Source: fin24
  7. Zimbabwe: Resolving Who Owns What Land Lies at Heart of Zimbabwe’s Future (1/20/18)
    Source: The New York Times

Americas

  1. Brazil: ‘I used to see them as a bunch of rioters’: Brazil’s radical farmers (1/25/18)
    Source: The Guardian
  2. Colombia: Land title gives new hope to displaced Colombians (1/23/18)
    Source: UNHCR

Asia

  1. Bangladesh: CHT people to enjoy ownership of their land: PM (1/21/18)
    Source: Business News 24 Bd
  2. China: Land rights and agricultural efficiency (1/22/18)
    Source: Vox Dev
  3. India: The Great Indian Land Grab Being Carried out in the Name of Compensatory Afforestation (1/30/18)
    Source: The Wire
  4. The Philippines: ARMM starts Maguindanao land titling to settle disputes (1/20/18)
    Source: Philippine News Agency

Land Matters Media Scan – 19 January 2018

Posted on by Amrit Bhandari

Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:

USAID

  1. “Gender, Land and Mining in Mongolia” – new report from WOLTS team – cites USAID LandLinks’ Mongolia country profile and other research (1/10/18)
    Source: Mokoro
    Related report: Gender, Land and Mining in Mongolia
  2. The Data Revolution Should Not Leave Women and Girls Behind – cites Susan Markham, USAID’s Senior Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (1/9/18)
    Source: Inter Press Service
  3. USAID Land Champion: Daler Asrorov (1/11/18)
    Source: USAID LandLinks
  4. Ownership, Simplified (1/12/18)
    Source: USAID Colombia LRDP
  5. USAID joins first ASEAN Land Governance Summit in Manila (1/18/18)
    Source: USAID SURGE Cities Development Initiative Newsletter

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
  3. Making Rangelands More Secure (1/29-2/9/18)
    Source: International Land Coalition / Land Portal Foundation

Reports and Publications

  1. From the Ground Up: Multi-Level Accountability Politics in Land Reform in the Philippines (1/5/18)
    Source: Accountability Research Center
    Related report: From the Ground Up: Multi-Level Accountability Politics in Land Reform in the Philippines

Global

  1. What is counted will count: why getting SDG land indicators to Tier I matters (1/5/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation
  2. A new UN declaration could finally protect rural and landless peoples (1/4/18)
    Source: OpenGlobalRights

Indigenous Peoples

  1. U.N. lambasts Latin America for abusing indigenous rights (1/11/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  2. Defiance of the Mapuche (1/11/18)
    Source: Al Jazeera
  3. Brazil: Kunumi MC, the indigenous rapper protecting his people’s land (1/12/18)
    Source: BBC
  4. Indonesian villages see virtually zero progress in program to manage peatlands (1/15/18)
    Source: Mongabay
  5. Kenya: EU suspends its support for Water Towers in view of reported human rights abuses (1/18/18)
    Source: Land Portal Foundation
  6. The Philippines: Video: Indigenous Filipinos risk their lives to defend their land (1/11/18)
    Source: France 24
  7. Venezuela’s Mining Arc boom sweeps up Indigenous people and cultures (1/15/18)
    Source: Mongabay

Africa

  1. Cape Verde: Land Rights Open Economic Opportunities in Cabo Verde (1/9/18)
    Source: Millenium Challenge Corporation
  2. Ethiopia: Women’s Land Rights and the Problem of Polygamy: A Proposal in Ethiopia (1/17/18)
    Source: DAI
  3. Kenya: End of conflict in sight as herders agree to leave Kitui (1/8/18)
    Source: Daily Nation
  4. Liberia: Double Land Sale Fueling Land Dispute in Liberia (1/17/18)
    Source: Front Page Africa
  5. Nigeria holds mass burial for 73 people killed in communal violence (1/11/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  6. Is South Africa’s ANC bent on radical policies? Here’s why the answer is no (1/9/18)
    Source: The Conversation
  7. South Africa: ANC president pledges to carry out land reform (1/8/18)
    Source: Xinhua Net
  8. Uganda: “First, know your rights”- networks for resolving land conflicts in northern Uganda (1/15/18)
    Source: SaferWorld
  9. Zimbabwe urgently needs a new land administration system (1/14/18)
    Source: The Conversation

Americas

  1. Colombia: Undecided land claims in Colombia put slave descendants at risk, study says (1/17/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

Asia

  1. Denied land, Indian women stake claims in collectives (1/10/18)
    Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
  2. The Philippines: LMB bats for single office to tackle land issues nationwide (1/18/18)
    Source: Update

Land Matters Media Scan – 5 January 2018

Posted on by Amrit Bhandari

Here are the recent land tenure and resource management media items:

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