Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Arun Tiwari Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 06/05/2024. In the application, the allegation is of illegal mining of soil upto 10-15 mtrs. depth from the farmer’s land by M/s Gowar Construction Limited, the project proponent in collusion with the …
Namibia will launch the baseline study that was conducted in 2016 by the University of Namibia which was aimed at investigating the status of women’s land use, ownership and rights under customary land tenure system, at an event on Thursday in Ongwediva, northern Namibia. The study was prepared for the …
Hoedspruit - It was a hard-fought victory for South Africa's black community seeking to reclaim land, and for the Moletele ethnic group it has become a surprising model of wider racial cooperation. After a 10-year legal battle, the Moletele have taken back the land from which they were evicted by …
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Kenya said on Wednesday that the increased demand for land and urban development is threatening wildlife conservation that remains the country’s main foreign exchange earner. Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Cabinet Secretary Judi Wakhungu said on Wednesday that urgent conservation measures must be put in place …
Country Representative for the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has recokned that deforestation is leading to large scale land degradation, loss of biodiversity and demnisihed land productivity in Sierra Leone. According to Nyabenyi Tipo, the said impacts have negative impact on the livelihoods of local communities including limited access to …
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Kenya said on Wednesday that the increased demand for land and urban development is threatening wildlife conservation that remains the country’s main foreign exchange earner. Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Cabinet Secretary Judi Wakhungu said on Wednesday that urgent conservation measures must be put in place …
FREETOWN - The World Bank Country Director for Sierra Leone, Parminder Brar Wednesday pledged 10 million U.S. dollars to support the implementation of the new land policy project in Sierra Leone. Brar made the above disclosure at the commencement of a two-day National Land Conference organized at the Miatta Conference …
‘Delay in demarcation of Ridge land’ The National Green Tribunal on Thursday rapped the Delhi government over “inordinate delay” in demarcation of forest land in the southern Ridge and slapped a fine of Rs. 2 lakh on it. A Bench headed by Justice Jawad Rahim said the city government was …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Development of Wasteland, 20/07/2017. As per information received from Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, details of estimated area under agricultural / cultivable land in the 13 districts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh comprising the Bundelkhand region as …
The Maharashtra government should nominate the same for the Ramsar site, the NBWL has recommended. Mumbai: In a shot in the arm for the Navi Mumbai international airport, the Maharashtra government has allocated 250 hectare forest land in Raigad district to the project. However, the National Board of Wild Life …
For a farmer in Brazil's Amazon, Manoel Freire Camurca was doing pretty well for himself until a local power broker burned down his house and took the surrounding fields he had poured his life into. Camurca's eviction eight months ago happened as officials were finalising his claim to 500 hectares …
Analyzing government spatial planning maps, researchers for the Waterkeeper Alliance and the Mining Advocacy Network found that 19 percent of Indonesia's rice-growing land falls within exploration or mining concessions for coal. The study calculated that coal mining already costs the country 1.7 million tons of potential rice production, and another …
The emission of greenhouse gases by human activity is set to lead to drought, rising sea levels and flooding in many parts of the world. But in Africa's Sahel region, at the southern edge of the Sahara desert, there could be an upside. The Sahel is the transition region between …
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ruling African National Congress has proposed at its policy conference that land expropriation without compensation should be allowed where it is "necessary and unavoidable", President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday. Land will be a key issue ahead of a December conference where a successor to …
The flood has affected over 740 villages in Lakhimpur, Golaghat, Jorhat, Cachar, Dhemaji, Biswanath, Karimganj, Sonitpur, Darrang, Hojai, Majuli, Barpeta and Nagaon districts of the state. The flood waters in Karimganj district have submerged over 200 villages affecting over two lakh people. With over 3.5 lakh people affected in 13 …
A referendum on whether the state should expropriate land without compensation could be on the cards. That’s if the pro-Jacob Zuma grouping has its way at the ANC policy conference. The proposal‚ which was first raised by the party’s biggest province in terms of membership numbers KwaZulu-Natal‚ is expected to …
US sponsored Cordisons International (K) Limited has served the National Land Commission chairman Muhammad Swazuri, and the NLC with court restraining orders against interference with a wind power project in Lamu county. The new order is based on fresh evidence against NLC for allegedly issuing an allotment letter to a …
Jinja — The Commission of Inquiry intoLand Matters has ordered the detention of the Assistant Town Clerk of Kimaka-Mpumudde Division in Jinja Municipality for allegedly withholding information regarding the acquisition of land in forest reserve. Mr Abubaker Menya Kirunda who was appearing before the commission at the Civil Service College …
Knowledge is the basis for sustainable development, but successful implementation depends on understanding what works in the field and where to improve lives and the environment. This is why a new FAO book released in Rome – Sustainable Land Management in the Kagera Basin – presents sustainable land management techniques …
The 1,000-MW solar power project required 5,000 acres and cost Rs 4,000 crore investment. Hyderabad: A 1,000-MW solar power project proposed to be built in the state two years ago has been stalled for want of land. The National Thermal Power Corporation had decided to set up the unit in …
When Josephine Kiiza first moved from Kampala to Masaka, in southern Uganda, to flee civil war raging in the 1980s, she had no money, land or food in her name. "My in-laws gave us two piglets, which brought us manure to farm a plot of leased land, crops we could …
