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Community Participation and Inclusion during a Pandemic: Recent Experiences from Around the World
How can we reconcile the hazards of social interaction in a COVID-19 world with the importance of community participation to the successful, and sustainable, implementation of on-going land project
Three reasons to invest in land tenure security
For rural people, especially low-income rural people, land and livelihood are one and the same.
Indonesian officials linked to mining and ‘dirty energy’ firms benefiting from deregulation law
Top Indonesian ministers who pushed for the passage of a deregulation bill that benefits the mining and “dirty energy” industry have links to some of those very companies, a new report shows.
Controversial Chinese Development Project in Laos Moves Closer to Government Approval
Main photo: The area of China's proposed Vang Vieng development project in Laos is shown in a March 2019 photo (RFA).
Area burned in Indonesia fires ‘greater than the Netherlands’
Greenpeace slams Indonesia for lack of action against the palm oil sector as vast areas of forests burned in five years.
Felda plans to regain control of 350,000ha land leased to FGV, says chairman
Main photo: Felda intends to reclaim some 350,000 hectares of land that it has leased to FGV Holdings Berhad to shore up its financial position. — Reuters pic
Cameroon: Sheep-breeding community Mbororos challenges a temporary concession of 100,000 hectares in the Adamaoua
(Business in Cameroon) - On August 14, 2020, Ousmanou Biri, the regional president of the association for the cultural development of Cameroonian Mbororos - a community of sheep-breeding nomads wel
Lands allocated for 2 major projects turned into maize farm
The people of Walewale in the Northern Region are demanding answers as to why lands allocated for a Watermelon Processing Factory and a 100-bed capacity hospital have now been turned into a maize f
Land administration reform: part and parcel of an inclusive, resilient, and sustainable COVID-19 recovery
The impact of COVID-19 has been devastating around the world.
Think tank decries global push to privatize land
One of the ugliest features of the modern world is the exploitation of natural resources for private gain irrespective of its consequences for the environment and the larger community, especially t