Full Coverage: Land

26.04.2005 President Lula of Brazil is under continuous pressure on land reform. But questions are beginning to be asked whether higher priority for government spending lies with urban rather than rural poverty.

26.04.2005 An investigation by human rights organisation People's Union for Democratic Rights, in the east Indian state of Orissa, finds that a terror campaign has been unleashed by the government in villages where mining is taking place. The investigation found that people's consent has been taken in a fraudulent manner.

21.04.2005 The Kore farming and the Guji-Oromo herding communities that have inhabited Ethiopia's lush, arable grasslands for generations are being burned out of their homes so that a national park can be developed there to cater to foreign tourists. No compensation has been offered the evicted communities, who have nowhere else to settle and make a living in the country, which is mostly arid.

19.04.2005 NEW DELHI, Apr 19 (OneWorld) - Water activists rubbished historical claims of the Indian government and engineers that one of India's most successful big dam projects - the Bhakra project constructed in 1963 - had a role in bringing economic prosperity to north India and food security to the country.

19.04.2005 MONTRÉAL
À l’occasion du 35e anniversaire du Jour de la Terre
MONTRÉAL ET LA CRISE DE L’ENVIRONNEMENT
lundi le 18 avril 2005,
par : SodecM

Avec Monsieur Gérald Tremblay, maire de Montréal
- Ce que fait notre ville ...
- Ce quÂ’elle fera ...
- Ce quÂ’elle peut faire ...

16.04.2005 RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 15 (IPS) - Indigenous groups welcomed a decision by the Brazilian Justice Ministry Friday to formalise the demarcation of the Raposa Sierra del Sol reserve in the northern state of Roraima.

13.04.2005 Top Chinese and Indian officials have started the process of settling a territorial dispute in the troubled province of Kashmir, which has soured relations between the world's two most populous nations since 1962. A rapproachment between the two neighbors could have far-reaching diplomatic and economic repercussions, says one analyst.

13.04.2005 As the U.S. Congress prepares to consider the free trade treaty with Central America known as CAFTA, Oxfam America's partners from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador sent fair trade advocates to Washington D.C. The representatives gave firsthand accounts of the adverse consequences of CAFTA on small farmers, agricultural workers, indigenous people, and the environment in Central America. Hear their stories.

11.04.2005 As President Robert Mugabe was in Rome to attend the Pope's funeral on Friday, a 26-year-old opposition member of parliament was arrested and possibly tortured, and attacks on white-owned farms and the brutal murder of an opposition activist were reported.

08.04.2005 Lack of title deeds, traditions of political patronage, and inability of women to own property are just some of the factors which will make it difficult for the poor in Africa to cope with changing patterns of land use in the 21st century.