JOHANNESBURG - AGRI-SA, the South African agricultural industry association, has raised concern at government’s plans to expropriate white owned land without compensation.

Complaints by residents over an unclear roadmap on compensation threaten to derail the construction of the Sh6 billion Eldoret Southern bypass.

There was reprieve for the US consortium of investors Cordisons International (K) limited and its rival Kenwind limited after the Environment and land court in Malindi set a date for ruling on a lo

In the entire mineral rich region of Orissa, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, where even non-Naxal areas (Posco, Kathikund, Kalinganagar, Narayanpatna, Potka) are seeing brutal police repression, mining seems to be the motivating factor for a ground clearing of the adivasis – if necessary by war, as in Dantewada.

Through an investigation of the constitutional, legal and policy frameworks grounding the specialised protection of the STs, and the administrative and financial apparatuses that effectuate those protections, as well as compilations of data on the preponderance of dams and mines in the Scheduled Areas, the Report presents some insights on why th

Investors seeking to set up factories in the Special Economic Zones will now find it easier to access land under a new policy as it curbs unnecessary rises of land prices, the Ministry of Trade and

Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Surender Singh & Others Vs State of Haryana & Others dated 25/01/2018 regarding acquisition of large chunk of land totaling around 520 acres 02 Kanals and 13.5 Marlas situated in 15 villages in the State of Haryana for the construction of Express Highway. Supreme Court said that it is difficult to determine the fair market rate of the acquired land for want of sufficient evidence.

CHENNAI: In what could signal the end of the plan for an International Container Transhipment Terminal at Enayam, the environment appraisal committee of the ministry of environment and forests rece

Citing alleged irregularities, indigenes of Emu-Ebendo and Emu-Iyasele communities in Ndokwa West Local Council of Delta State have rejected the environmental impact assessment report (EIA) report

This book applies for the first time emerging concepts of socioeconomics to analyse an economic sector, namely agriculture. It considers the rational choices of all actors in the system (just as agricultural economists do) and their cultural preferences and constraints (just as rural sociologists do).

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