Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), one of the world’s largest paper companies, is mired in more than one hundred active conflicts over land rights with rural communities across the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo, resisting repeated demands from activists to be transparent about progress made towards settling its disputes, a new study has fou

Growing commercial interests, population growth and conservation initiatives are increasing competition for land in Tanzania. At the same time, land-related conflicts are on the rise. These trends undermine livelihoods by threatening rural people’s access to land and tenure security.

Twenty-three people were killed in India last year for defending their land and environment, with only the Philippines and Colombia recording more deaths, human rights group Global Witness said in a report.

CAG of India’s report on Maharashtra (Economic Sector) that was tabled in state assembly on the last day of the monsoon session (2nd July) talks about problems that continue to plague irrigation projects, even those that are slated to receive central government grants under Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme (AIBP).

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Illegal Land Acquisition and Mining, 01/07/2019.