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Activists condemn FG over delays in Ogoni clean-up process

Activists under the platform of the Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) have decried the delays encountered over the clean-up of polluted Ogoni land for which Presi

Publication Date: 
05/04/2017
Guardian (Nigeria)
Tags:
Environment, Nigeria, Oil Pollution, Land, Oil Exploration, Africa
Land

Land acquisition and beyond - The farmers’ perspective

Farmers have a complex relationship with their land: losing it means losing an entire way of life. A survey of the original inhabitants of Maan, a village near Pune where land was acquired for an information technology park and industrial estates, found that the process of acquisition was both attractive and scary for the farmers involved. Almost 70% of the respondents were willing to sell their land under different conditions. They were bitter about the escalation of land values after acquisition. What farmers want is a share in the future appreciation of land.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2017
Dhanmanjiri Sathe
Economic and Political Weekly
52
13
59-64
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Farmers, Pune (D), Maharashtra, Compensation
Land

New Bill proposes establishment of a Land Commission

Cape Town – Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti says the department will soon table a Bill that will enable the establishment of a Land Commission that will help the state to

Publication Date: 
29/03/2017
SA News (South Africa)
Tags:
Land, Legislation, South Africa, Land Ownership, Africa
Land

Compensation for those affected by the Southern Bypass in offing

Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) has finalized plans to compensate people affected by the Kampala Southern Bypass project.

Publication Date: 
29/03/2017
New Vision (Uganda)
Tags:
Land, Land Acquisition, Compensation, Uganda, Roads, Africa
Land

Recent grassland losses are concentrated around U.S. ethanol refineries

Although the United States has pursued rapid development of corn ethanol as a matter of national biofuel policy, relatively little is known about this policy's widespread impacts on agricultural land conversion surrounding ethanol refineries. This knowledge gap impedes policy makers' ability to identify and mitigate potentially negative environmental impacts of ethanol production.

Publication Date: 
21/03/2017
Christopher K Wright, Ben Larson, Tyler J Lark & et al
Environmental Research Letters
1-16
Tags:
Ethanol, Grasslands, United States Of America (US), Biofuel, Land Use
Forests

142ha forest land near Nagzira for Adani plant

Nagpur: The Forest Advisory Committee (FCA), the topmost body under MoEFCC considering forest land diversion proposals, has recommended diversion of 141.99 hectares forest land near Nagzira for Ada

Publication Date: 
21/03/2017
Times of India (Nagpur)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Nagpur (D), Nagzira SA, Tiger Reserves, Forests, Land, Power Industry
Land

Zimbabwe: Government to Cut Farm Sizes

Government plans to soon reduce huge farms to reasonably small pieces of land to meet demand from more land-hungry Zimbabweans before bringing closure to the land redistribution chapter, a Cabinet

Publication Date: 
14/03/2017
All Africa
Tags:
Agriculture, Land, Zimbabwe, Africa
Land

Order of the Supreme Court of India regarding construction of a KVA sub-station on grazing land (4,900 square meters) in village Luna, Vadodara, Gujarat, 06/03/2017

Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Luna Gram Panchayat & Other Vs State of Gujarat & Others dated 06/03/2017 regarding construction of a KVA sub-station on grazing land (4,900 square meters) in village Luna, Vadodara, Gujarat. According to the counsel for the petitioners, the action at the behest of the authorities is arbitrary, because there is substantial barren land available in the village, where the sub-station can be raised.

Judgement Date: 
06/03/2017
Tags:
Grazing Lands, Common Property Resources, Power Transmission, Supreme Court, Wastelands, Vadodara (D), Gujarat
Forests

Forest fire claims estimated 10k acres of forest land

An estimated 10,000 acres of forest area is suspected to have gutted in fire that erupted in Thathkola reserve forest, in the last six days.

Publication Date: 
06/03/2017
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Karnataka, Forests, Trees, Land, Wildlife, Forest Fires
Land

Africa’s farmland in changing hands: a review of literature and case studies from sub-Saharan Africa

Access to land is at the heart of rural livelihoods. In sub-Saharan Africa, the pace and scale at which land is changing hands are increasing fast.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2017
Catriona Knapman, Laura Silici, Lorenzo Cotula, James Mayers
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Agriculture, Mining, Urbanisation, Land Ownership, Climate Change, Africa

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