Pacific Epoch (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
Mao Yushi, founder and chairman of Beijing's Unirule Institute of Economics, said at a recent seminar in Beijing that China's fixed bottom line of about 120 million hectares of arable land was ?a hurdle for Chinese further industrialization and urbanization,? according to a
Middleboro Review (Free subscription) | 26/12/2008
A friend and frequent reader of this blog introduced me to Lincoln Institute some time ago. The Institutes's Land Line January 2009 issue is available online .
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 22/12/2008
A NEW UNITY government will not be allowed to reverse Zimbabwe's land-reform policy, in which nearly 4,000 white-owned farms were forcibly seized, President Robert Mugabe has told his party faithful.
Global News Blog (Free subscription) | 17/12/2008
Global News Blog / IPS Joyce Mulama NAIROBI, Dec 16 (IPS) - Pressure is mounting to include a National Land Policy that ensures equal access to land between women and men in Kenya’s new constitution. ”It is important that the National Land Policy is anchored on the new constitution. It is under the old law that [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | 21/12/2008
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe says he will not allow a unity government to reverse his land reform policy.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 21/12/2008
President Robert Mugabe effectively cast the last die in efforts to form a unity government in Zimbabwe when he vowed that his party’s economic and social policies were not negotiable during talks to break a deadlock over control of key cabinet portfolios. Officially closing a three-day annual conference of his ZANU PF party in Bindura to [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 20/12/2008
Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is auctioning off resource rights to over 110,000 acres of public lands in Utah to oil and gas producers. The lands include parcels near Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Dinosaur National Monument, and Nine Mile Canyon, which is home to “the highest concentration of Native American rock art [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Land policy and land reforms are fundamental in addressing issues of poverty, food security and general stability in the African region, experts pointed out at the opening session of a three-day regional consultative workshop on land policy in North Africa.
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is trying to make it tougher for Congress to block mining and oil and gas drilling on public lands.The Bureau of Land Management, which manages 258 million acres of federal property, stripped from its regulations Thursday a provision that gives two Congressional committees the power to compel the Interior Secretary to temporarily place public...
Politics.ie (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ireland's lost competitiveness can be partially recovered by pursuing the following strategies. 1. Pursue a cheap land policy which will reduce...
Republic of Lakotah (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
... “The American Indian is the miner’s canary of Liberty.” Once again, I must remind you that every policy of America’s evil Empire, domestic and international, was bred, born and perfected in America’s concentration camps, i.e. American Indian Reservations. To continue to ignore and refuse to discuss these colonial realities at length and in depth means the American people are doomed to even...
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
By Ange AboaABIDJAN, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast has sent hundreds of soldiers to bolster security in its cocoa-growing west, but farmers caught up in simmering land disputes say that won't lure them back to fields they abandoned during years of conflict. The west of the world's top cocoa producer was the scene of some of the most violent clashes during and since a brief 2002-2003 war, in...
Pruned (Free subscription) | 27/12/2008
(Image courtesy of BBC News .) This simple enough map by the BBC News illustrates the spread of cholera in Zimbabwe and, by extension, the years of infrastructural neglect, failed land policies, and a world community too impotent to deal with humanitarian crisis. Confirming that no disease cares much for arbitrary lines drawn on pieces of (digital) paper, it also shows the epidemic crossing...
BlogCkChew (Free subscription) | 23/12/2008
Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak has stopped a plan by the Pakatan Rakyat-led Perak government to award freehold titles to villagers, saying the move violated the National Land Code. “We have a policy where states cannot make unilateral decisions on issuing freehold land titles. Such titles are usually given to land that is to be used [...]
IOL (Free subscription) | 21/12/2008
Defiant Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has refused to allow regression in regard to the country's land policy.
