Though the state might be the ultimate authority in deciding the fate of the land and its resources, it is nevertheless bound by obligations enshrined in the Constitution and laws of the land to ...

Land distribution in Latin America is the most unequal in the world, with only 1 percent of the farms and estates controlling more than half of the region's productive land, aid group Oxfam said ...

Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. Predictions indicate that an ...

Small family farmers waiting for years to obtain documents validating their land claims often need to pay a small bribe to speed up bureaucracy. More flagrant abuses of the land tenure system are ...

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Land distribution in Latin America is the most unequal in the world where only one percent of the farms and estates control more than half of the region's ...

Land ownership will emerge as a challenge for the new government in 2019 as calls for equal land distribution grow louder. Last year marked a watershed moment for the land problem. During the last ...

MANILA, Philippines - Land distribution will continue beyond June 30, 2014 as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) did not end last Tuesday, the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said ...

MANILA, Philippines – Agrarian reform advocates and human rights groups are among those who signed an online petition calling on the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to conduct genuine land ...

Research on credit markets from developing economies, as well as work on the origin of institutions in general, has suggested that land inequality may play a role in determining financial development.

ISLAMABAD, April 18: The issue of unequal land distribution in Pakistan is not new and dates back to the time of independence when only one per cent of the landowners possessed 25 per cent of the ...

MANILA, Philippines — Land distribution to agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARBs) will be finished in the next four years or before his term ends, President Marcos vowed yesterday. “I wish that within ...

The Punjab government has introduced a modern system for distributing common land to benefit millions of land and property owners across the province. This initiative, launched under the directives of ...