Full Coverage: Land

28.10.2005 Fifty years ago, the Tonga people were evicted from their lands along the Zambezi River when the construction of the Kariba Dam flooded their valley homes. Now, an oral testimony project is highlighting the voices of the Tonga, exploring the history and contemporary experiences of communities that paid dearly for their country's development.

27.10.2005 The PeopleÂ’s Movement to Protect the Eppawala Phosphate Deposit (PMPEPD) is launching a protest march and a rally against the Sri Lankan government's move to sell the Eppawala mining rights to a Chinese company.

25.10.2005 Stoves requiring less wood or charcoal fuel not only help curb deforestation and air pollutants, they also decrease the time women and children must spend outside the safety of the camp, say refugee advocates.

17.10.2005 A three-pronged strategy is needed — sustaining the gains already achieved, extending them to rainfed areas, and ensuring new gains through diversification and value addition.

12.10.2005 Food First is proud to sponsor the US tour of Mangaliso Kubheka, National Organizer of South Africa's Landless Peoples' Movement. Mangaliso is building global bridges between his movement and organizers in the United States. Check our events calendar to see Mangaliso speak in your city.

03.10.2005 Marginalization and subsistence farming accentuate precarious economic situation of rural residents.

02.10.2005 Kerala has been considered relatively free from the conventional restrictions against womenÂ’s education and employment, or women owning property. Indeed, the state level gender development index estimated by several scholars places Kerala ahead of other states. But a decomposition of this index reveals that the top position in education and health masks the poor employment profile of women in the state. Besides, the state witnesses negative trends in womenÂ’s property rights, rapid growth and spread of dowry and rising gender-based violence. This paper engages critically with performance in select dimensions of well-being.