Land Use Planning (LUP) in Pakistan
The purpose of land use planning is to regulate land use in an efficient and ethical way, thus preventing land-use conflicts.Land use planning is land-use regulations, or zoning.Zoning regulates the...
View ArticleFrom colonial to corporate landgrabbing - the case of Pakistan
Landgrabbing is not new in Pakistan. It is over a century old. This is because, despite industrialization and modern facilities for the middle and upper classes, Pakistan remains primarily a feudal and...
View ArticleAsia: Rethinking development finance for city slums
Very little aid is actually available to low-income urban groups and grassroots organizations. If it is, it is subject to the conditions and priorities established by the aid provider.read more
View ArticleWomen's protest for land ownership in Pakistan
(…) More than 100 Hindu women from Rahim Yar Khan in Pakistan’s Punjab Province have demanded that the government give them ownership rights of their occupied residential land.The women held the...
View ArticleAgricultural Land Acquisition by foreign investors in Pakistan -
“This paper explores the Pakistani government’s 2009 agricultural investment policy package — a response to increasing foreign investor interest in agricultural land — and considers the likely...
View ArticleSqueezed: Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, Year 1 results
Oxfam and the Institute of Development Studies present the joint research report Squeezed: Life in a time of food price volatility.read more
View ArticleAsia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)
Who We AreAPWLD is the region’s leading network of feminist organisations and women. Our 180 members represent groups of diverse women from 25 countries in the region. We have been active for nearly 25...
View ArticleRights activists demand land reforms in Pakistan
Executive Director Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) Karamat Ali said on Saturday that the 70 percent of the sitting national and provincial assembly members have feudal...
View Article‘Feudal lords are blocking land reforms’
KARACHI: The present landowning system being ‘feudal’ in nature is blocking the way for a review of land reforms. A recent research has shown that farmers in South Punjab have progressed towards...
View ArticleResults yet to be seen: 'Some of the land given to peasants was largely...
The need to accord female peasants a greater right to ownership of land was stressed at a workshop for media sensitisation on ‘Women’s Right to Land’ held on by the Society for Environmental Actions,...
View ArticleLand for people, or corporations? - India
Earlier this month, a People’s Tribunal on Land Rights was held in Hyderabad, presided over by Justice (retd) Wajiuddin Ahmed, and heavily attended by peasants and activists. Continued failure of...
View ArticleNPCP seeks comprehensive pro-poor land-agrarian reforms - Pakistan
KARACHI: A comprehensive pro-poor land and agrarian reforms programme should be introduced and implemented in Pakistan with immediate effect to alleviate poverty and bring socio-economic development,...
View ArticleAgriculture dept seeks govt attention to develop barren land - Pakistan
Official records of agriculture department’s field wing term its land development proposal vital for Punjab in particular and the country in general in boosting agriculture through a green...
View ArticleLand rights: ‘Our blood and sweat makes land fertile’ - Pakistan
A farmer said that before the elections, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had promised to give them land rights during his election campaign but the promise remained unfulfilled- - -read more
View ArticleClimate change prompts land-use shift in Kashmir
Rapid melting of glaciers due to climate change is taking heavy toll on water resources, agriculture and other economic sectors in Kashmir.read more
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