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UN relief agency estimates 1.8 million Haitians have been affected by Hurricane Sandy

Published in Monday November 5th, 2012 In In the media

November 2nd, 2012 Some 1.8 million Haitians have been affected by Hurricane Sandy, the United Nations relief agency said today after its first assessment of the situation in the region, adding that food security remains an urgent concern in the Caribbean nation. Initial data collected by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs […]

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Housing Nightmare Looms in Wake of Storm in New York

Published in Monday November 5th, 2012 In In the media

November 04, 2012 New York City officials said on Sunday that they faced the daunting challenge of finding homes for as many as 40,000 people who were left homeless after the devastation of last week’s storm, a situation that the city’s mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, compared to New Orleans’s after Hurricane Katrina. The mayor said that […]

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Construction and Forced Evictions Mark Olympic Showcase in Russia

Published in Monday November 5th, 2012 In In the media

Hotels, sports facilities and general improvements are under construction in the city, and work is going on in the mountains above Sochi where other events will be held. This means upheaval for some residents. The cost of resettling 1,500 families in the path of the bulldozers has been borne by the government of the relatively wealthy Krasnodar region in which Sochi lies.

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Guarani-Kaiowa Land Dispute: Brazil Judge Suspends Eviction Of Indians

Published in Thursday November 1st, 2012 In In the media

A judge has suspended an order to evict 170 Indians from a plot in southwestern Brazil they say is ancestral land. Federal judge Cecilia Mello says the Guarani-Kaiowa Indians can remain on the 2.5-acre (1 hectare) plot they occupied about 10 years ago until authorities decide if they or ranchers are the rightful owners.

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Project to Shelter 1600 in Namibia

Published in Wednesday October 31st, 2012 In In the media

October 30, 2012 The Minister of Regional and Local Government, Housing and Rural Development, Jerry Ekandjo, last week officially turned the sod for the construction of the envisioned new township to be known as Ekuku on the outskirts of Oshakati. The project will cost government approximately N$200 million, housing close to 1 600 specifically low-income […]

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Japan’s tsunami reconstruction money spent on unrelated projects as communities struggle

Published in Tuesday October 30th, 2012 In In the media

October 30, 2012 Japan’s government says about a quarter of its budget for reconstruction after the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster has been spent on unrelated projects, including subsidies for a contact lens factory and research whaling. The audit documents released last week buttress complaints over shortcomings in the reconstruction effort. More than half […]

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Land deals in Africa have led to a wild west – bring on the sheriff, says FAO

Published in Monday October 29th, 2012 In In the media

October 29, 2012 Food and Agriculture Organisation chief José Graziano da Silva demands high noon on land grabs that jeopardise food security Amid warnings that land deals are undermining food security, the head of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has compared “land grabs” in Africa to the “wild west”, saying a “sheriff” is needed […]

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Brazil’s indigenous fight for their land

Published in Monday October 29th, 2012 In In the media

October 28, 2012 In an open letter, the indigenous Guarani-Kaiowa tribe of Brazil has asked for their collective death in order to avoid expulsion from their land. They are up against the agriculture lobby and facing an uphill battle. Members of the Guarani-Kaiowa, Brazil’s second largest indigenous group, wrote an to the government, stating they […]

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Food Security Linked to Land Reform in South Africa

Published in Wednesday October 24th, 2012 In In the media

October 23rd, 2012 Government cannot talk about improving food security without referring to land reform, President Jacob Zuma told members of the African Farmers Association of South Africa (AFASA) at a gala dinner on Monday. “In 2009, we made a commitment to transfer 30 percent of the 82 million hectares of agricultural land which was […]

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Our Land, Our Future

Published in Wednesday October 24th, 2012 In In the media

October 23rd, 2012 by Mr. Ali D. Kaba Liberia’s total land area is approximately ten million hectares. Liberia currently has one of the highest land concession rates in Africa: almost 40% of our nation’s land has already been promised to foreign investors for logging, palm and rubber plantations, and mining across all fifteen counties. Between […]

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