Full Coverage: Land

28.07.2004

Millions still depend on food aid in Zimbabwe © IRIN

The Zimbabwean government is preventing humanitarian agencies from providing assistance to about 150,000 farm workers who lost their jobs and housing because of the governmentÂ’s land reform program. The workers are former employees of commercial farms that were seized by the government and re-distributed to war veterans.

23.07.2004 GENEVA, Jul 22 (IPS) - The Guaraní community of Tentayapi, in southern Bolivia, one of the last bastions of the indigenous group's traditional way of life, is fighting to keep a foreign oil company out of its ancestral territory.

16.07.2004 At a signing ceremony last month, the Eureka City Council in California formally returned 40 acres of Indian Island to the Wiyot Tribe. The Tribe lost the land in 1860.

13.07.2004 In Qalqilya, a Palestinian town surrounded by Israeli walls and electric fences, local farmers have formed a union to protect their lands against further encroachment even as they plant olives, peaches and tomatoes.

09.07.2004 GovernmentÂ’s Soil Health Card scheme is providing farmers crucial information about soils and helping them make major decisions about suitable crops and fertilizers.

08.07.2004 Conservationists are protesting the U.S. Forest ServiceÂ’s plan to sell 372 million board feet of timber - enough to fill 70,000 logging trucks - across 30 square miles of southwest OregonÂ’s Siskiyou National Forest because it violates federal forest protection rules.

06.07.2004 Increasing incidents of leopard attacks on people living in the periphery of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, in Mumbai, have thrown the issue of man vs. animal conflict into sharp focus.