Kenya enacts law to give land titles to marginalised communities

The Community Land Bill lays down steps for communities to acquire titles to their ancestral land

Possessed by land

Landholding can affect marital prospects. It can also affect sex ratios and lead to polyandry. A village in Alwar provides a snapshot

Whose land is it, anyway?

The Mabo judgement, which recognises Australian aboriginal claims to land, has led to protests from business circles and could have an impact as …

Dupont decried

After the Thapar-Dupont plant was driven out of Goa, and it found a refuge in Tamil Nadu, a ho,n,t's nest has again been stirred up

Egypt

Shady deal

Land rights of Brazil's local people being usurped

Hope sets in

As government starts drafting land rights bill for tribals

No to afforestation

Furious at losing their traditional rights over land, residents of a south Delhi village say...

Woolly-headed environmentalism

Tribal rights and democracy loose to conservation banter

A wrong righted: Chhattisgarh becomes first state to give farmers their land back

Chhattisgarh has set an example by returning land acquired forcefully from over 1,700 farmers for a steel plant. Can other states follow suit?

Chhattisgarh cancels forest rights of tribals in Surguja

Activists claim the move was in response to the tribals’ protest against mining in their forest

Bullets in lieu of land

Green Belt

Punjab's marginalised communities struggle for their right to cultivate common lands

People from the scheduled caste have once protested against big landlords who have taken control of fertile common lands and they are all set to …

“Aboriginal people in Australia still do not have right over their land”

Poet and writer ALI COBBY ECKERMANN was in India recently to launch her memoir, Too Afraid To Cry. The book is an account of her growing up as a …

People of no land

Jharkhand's decision to allow the use of tribal land for non-agricultural purposes could lead to mass displacement

Latin America, the most unequal region of the world in land distribution

Economic elites use their clout to influence regulatory decisions to serve their interest by either funding political parties or controlling the media

Chronicling resistance

South Asia

No give

Maharashtra villagers fight land acquisition for IT park

Pointed play

स्वामित्व योजना: क्या दो गज जमीन के लिए संघर्ष होगा खत्म?

ग्रामीण भारत में रहने वाली लगभग 56 फीसदी आबादी आवासहीन या भूमिहीन है

भारतीय किसान, 'चक्रव्यूह' में फंसा अभिमन्यु

देश के ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों की लगभग 58% आबादी खेती पर निर्भर है, इतने बड़े तबके का अशांत होना देश के लिए अच्छा संकेत नहीं ...

JOHANNESBURG

Corporate social irresponsibility