Land restoration target revised to 26 mln ha: Experts call for strategy overhaul
Due caution must be exercised in setting standards and policies for restoration of degraded lands, say experts
Land inequality threatens livelihood of 2.5 bln: Report
There is urgent need to act on land equality for any significant progress towards global sustainability, stability and social justice, flags Land …
Strong nexus between land use and drought: UNCCD report
It also called for the management of land and drought to be fundamentally linked
Reform, restitution, justice: UN report suggests host of measures to protect indigenous rights
Denying indigenous peoples their rights self-defeating: UN Report
Robbing Hood?
Tribal travails
Continue in Kerala over land
Divide and rule
Land rights and wrongs
World lost 87 per cent wetlands in 300 years
Rapid urban expansion one of the major reasons behind land degradation, says a global report
Six killed in Jharkhand after police fire at farmers protesting land acquisition
This is the third time the police have opened fire at the protesting farmers in the area
Tapping unused government land
There is a need to assess land acquisition and allotment for infrastructure projects, to eliminate the possibility of creating surplus and …
Cabinet approves ordinance to ease land acquisition rules
Provisions relating to fair compensation in the land Act of 2013 have not been amended in the ordinance
Uncommon swing for commons
States rush in with new policies and programmes to protect village land
Land Titling Bill: silent on rights of tribals and the poor
Land Titling Bill silent on settling rights of tribals and the poor
Fringe benefits taxed
Post-independence policies have taken away all securities of the small farmer
Up for grabs
Goa suffers the infiltration of its pristine landscapes by groups with vested commercial interests
Rogue illusionists
A village crops up in the heart of a forest as three government employees cook the books
Nobody's children
A plantation economy, land grabbing and migrations from neighbouring states have forced Gudalur's tribals into destitution
Land rights for Brazil tribe
Honey, I shrunk the land
Indigenous lands have less deforestation than state-managed protected areas in most of tropics
Roughly 15 per cent of the world’s land surface is under official state protection
Poor land use can cost the world $23 trillion by 2050
If the world spends even a fraction of the predicted loss, it can reverse land degradation, which affects the poorest the most
Beijing is sinking due to excessive groundwater extraction
A new study has found a direct correlation between depression in the surface and pumping out of groundwater
Eye on irrigated pie
Farmers' organisations raise an alarm over Odisha government's recent guidelines that allow industries to acquire irrigated land
A land of their own
Society thinks women do not want to own land. That’s where it is wrong