The Gujarat Government issued a notification dated 08th February, 2024 that pertains to the publication of the Gujarat Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Laws (Amendment) Act, 2024, which further amends the Gujarat Tenancy and Agricultural Lands Act, 1948, the Saurashtra Gharkhed, Tenancy Settlement and Agricultural Lands Ordinance, 1949, and the Gujarat …
The extent to which land initially intended for forests has been encroached for human use has been exposed in a report, with authorities being asked to take action against those responsible. Details previously contained in various reports, plus fresh revelations about the state of Kenyan forests, have been collated in …
You cannot go on “making fool” of the people and blame them for everything just because you are in power. This was how the Supreme Court rapped the Haryana government for auctioning 558.53 hectares for mining purposes, though the available area was only 141.76 hectares. A Bench comprising Justices Madan …
Ranchi: Lending a fillip to organic farming in the state, the Jharkhand government has decided to identify and develop 3,000 clusters across Jharkhand for promotion of organic farming. “Jharkhand’s organic farming plan has been approved the centre and we will be working in mission mode to promote the production of …
Losing the Serengeti: The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever is based on field research, and an in-depth investigation into Tanzania’s land laws. This report is the first to reveal the complicity between Tanzanian government officials and foreign companies as they use conservation laws to dispossess the Maasai, driving …
The government’s decision comes amid the problems it is facing in acquiring land for the high-profile Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet train and the ongoing farmers’ protest in Bhavnagar district against a state power utility’s bid to possess the land it had acquired around 20 years ago. To fast track land acquisition and …
Under the CSMSSY, Rs 24,000 crore to benefit 50 lakh farmers has been provided. However, the government noted that there was a sizeable number of farmers who were in debt but were deprived of the loan waiver benefits during Congress-NCP regime in 2008 and 2009. The state Cabinet on Tuesday …
In support of land reform programs, the Liberia Land Authority (LLA) in partnership with the World Bank have launched the Liberia Land Administration project to strengthen the capacity of the LLA in project management and implementation support. Report by Augustine T. Tweh, augustine.tweh@frontpageafricaonline.com The launch took place on Thursday, April …
A group under Women for Land Rights in Liberia yesterday presented a petition to Lofa County Senator George T. Tengbeh, to use his influence and prevail on his colleagues to pass the 2014 version of the Draft Land Rights Bill into law. Led by Mrs. Betty K. Sharpe, the group …
JAKARTA — An effort by the Indonesian government to compile a single map of land-use cover across the vast archipelago is nearing completion seven years after it began, but continues to be hampered by the very problem it seeks to overcome: bureaucracy. The one-map policy, conceived in 2011 to establish …
This fact was released Wednesday in Luanda by the director of the Climate Change Office of the Ministry of the Environment, Giza Martins, during the opening of the workshop to launch the Program of Definitions of National Voluntary Goals of Degradation of Neutral Lands. He added that this reality is …
Residents of communities that would be affected by the construction of a bridge to link central Monrovia with Bali Island are proposing an early relocation package before the start of the project. Report by Edwin G. Genoway, edwin.genoway@frontpageafricaonline.com The residents claim government’s early planning of a relocation strategy will ensure …
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Delhi Government to complete the demarcation of forest land in Southern Ridge are by June 30. A Bench headed by Justice Raghuvendra S Rathore warned the officers concerned that in case the work is not completed till that date, a fine of …
Ahead of next year’s referendum on independence from Papua New Guinea, the government of the autonomous region of Bougainville believes reopening the Panguna copper mine is the key to gaining economic self-sufficiency. In January, traditional landholders rejected a bid by Bougainville Copper Ltd. — now majority owned by the Bougainville …
The world's prosperity and wellbeing are seriously being threatened by the degradation of land and nature. Although there are opportunities to turn things around, fears of further deterioration in the coming decades must not be taken lightly. That is concluded at the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services …
A new assessment sets out the best-available evidence for policymakers to make better-informed decisions to combat land degradation, drawing on more than 3,000 scientific, government, indigenous and local knowledge sources. According to a new report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystems (IPBES), the principle global driver of …
The paddy fields in Keezhattur, where a bypass is planned, is situated just seven metres above the sea level. There is no farmland so close to sea level. Kuttanad and the Netherlands are the only places where farming activities are carried out below the sea level. The paddy land acts …
Vice-President Samia Suluhu Hassan launched a nationwide tree-planting campaign that also targets to make Dodoma a green city but authorities at the new gold mine say “it’s not too late to start reclaiming these arid lands. ” “We have organised ourselves carefully … next month we will start planting trees …
Scientists will publish the first-ever analysis Monday of the global state of land and its ability to sustain a fast-growing human population that relies on it for 95 percent of all food. The diagnosis is likely to be dire, providing a comprehensive overview of what other reports have already warned: …
The High Court has ordered the National Lands Commission to pay six petitioners Sh3.4 million. Their land was acquired for the construction of Ndakaini Dam in 1989 by the then commissioner of lands. Justice George Odunga ordered NLC to pay the money by itself or through the Nairobi City Water …
Bijnor: It has been 37 years since land of farmers at Raipur Berisaal village, located on the border of Najibabad and Bijnor tehsils in the district, was acquired by the government for construction of a 1 km road. But with officials of the two divisions passing the buck, these farmers …
