Read the latest news and blogs on land rights issues and investment

 

Read the latest news and blogs on land rights issues and investment

News and Blogs

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Improving land governance

 
  Dr Wordsworth Odame Larbi

Good and responsible land governance and an efficient land administration system, including land use planning, are one of the pillars for sustaining food security and nutrition in Ghana.

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A Journey into Land Issues in China

 

The Land Portal Foundation’s launches the China Country Portfolio - a knowledge piece with a comprehensive understanding of the country’s land issues.

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Press Release: Study Finds Upward Trend of Land Inequality in Asia Driven By Large-Scale Land Acquisitions

 

In a new study, researchers say that land inequality is rising in most countries.

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Five mega-trends affecting forests will have profound impacts on local communities

 

We need to understand the consequences of technology, migration, climate shifts, infrastructure and a growing middle class on forest-dependent people

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Minister orders no more lease of Bangladesh forest lands

 
  Ershad Kamol

Environment, forest and climate change minister Md Shahab Uddin on Sunday directed the country’s eight divisional commissioners for taking measures not to lease out forestlands to individuals and b

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New rule puts Indonesia’s protected forests up for grabs for agribusiness

 
  Hans Nicholas Jong

Indonesia’s environment ministry has issued a new regulation allowing protected forest areas to be cleared for a “food estate” program.

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Three reasons to invest in land tenure security

 
  Harold Liversage

For rural people, especially low-income rural people, land and livelihood are one and the same.

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Communities need land rights to gain from investments

 
  Siri Lijfering

Communities being able to participate on an equal basis in land governance is key to food security and inclusive development.

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Community Participation and Inclusion during a Pandemic: Recent Experiences from Around the World

 
  Laura Bermudez, Jordan Oestreicher, Christen Corcoran, Elyse Magen

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

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Indonesian officials linked to mining and ‘dirty energy’ firms benefiting from deregulation law

 
  Hans Nicholas Jong

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.

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