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ASIA, Mounting Costs of Climate Change Raise Fears of Conflict http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48679 By Ron Corben BANGKOK, Oct 1 (IPS) The rising challenge of climate change has raised fears of growing conflicts as the impact of more extreme weather triggers food water scarcities across the Asia ... Other labels: blog, asia, security, climate, food, livelihoods, change

DEVELOPMENT-NAMIBIA - Land Reform Reaping Fruits Despite Problems Brigitte Weidlich WINDHOEK, Nov 12 (IPS) Almost two decades after independence Namibia's land reform shows positive results and is guided by fair laws, but bureaucracy, slow progress in transformation of land ownership and unclear criteria for expropriation are overshadowing ... Other labels: blog, land, tenure, namibia

Olive groves on frontlines of West Bank conflict November 3, 2008 KAFR QADDUM, West Bank (AFP) For a number of years, volunteers have joined Palestinian farmers in the Israelioccupied West Bank to help pick olives and provide some form of protection against increasingly violent attacks by settlers ... Other labels: israel, blog, palestine, land, conflict, olives

ZIMBABWE, Military seed merchants http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81090 HARARE, 23 October 2008 (IRIN) The distribution of agricultural inputs such as maize seed and fertiliser for the 2008/09 season has become the domain of Zimbabwe's military and President Robert Mugabe's ZANUPF party. As the first rains ... Other labels: blog, zimbabwe, conflict, security, food, scarcity

Central Asians Edge Closer to Water Deal http://www.iwpr.net/?p=bca&s=b&o=347254&apcstate=henh 17Oct08 Increasing demand for water is making it more likely that Uzbekistan will accept a regional arrangement where all the Central Asian states share in the costs of using the rivers that run through ... Other labels: cooperation, blog, water, security, uzbekistan, turkmenistan

CHINA - Flirting With Land Tenure Reforms Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, Oct 13 (IPS) Faced with a deepening global financial meltdown, the Chinese communist party is contemplating farreaching internal reforms capable of insulating the country from the worst effects of the crisis such as by loosening its grip over land ... Other labels: blog, china, landtenure, landreform, land, food

In Congo, a new twist on 'blood diamonds' http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0827/p12s01woaf.html By Alex Halperin and Jina Moore\ Correspondents of The Christian Science Monitorfrom the August 27, 2008 edition Warring militias are stealing cows to perpetuate a conflict sparked by spillover from the 1994 Rwandan genocide.By Alex Halperin and Jina ... Other labels: blog, congo, natresources, economy, conflict

AFGHANISTAN Dust storms cause health problems in west http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79900 HERAT, 20 August 2008 (IRIN) Unusually strong winds carrying dust from the parched land have increased respiratory and eye diseases in western Afghanistan, according to health and environmental officials. The winds ... Other labels: blog, afghanistan, climate, security, food, health

AFGHANISTAN Severe drought and food price increases cause malnutrition and disease http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/ONIN7HJP8H?OpenDocument&RSS20= 18P Afghanistan is experiencing its most severe drought in eight years, with farming communities in the northern provinces being the hardest hit. In these areas where crops and livestock are dependent on rainfall rather ... Other labels: blog, health, climate, afghanistan, water, drought

ZIMBABWE, Winter wheat on course for smallest ever crop http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79634 BULAWAYO, 5 August 2008 (IRIN) Political violence, routine power cuts and fertiliser shortages are all but putting paid to any chance of Zimbabwe harvesting a winter wheat crop that will ease its chronic ... Other labels: blog, zimbabwe, conflict, food, governance, land, policy