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Landowners Still in Exile From Unstable Pakistan Area (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/world/asia/28swat.html?r=1&hp By JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH Published: July 27, 2009 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Even as hundreds of thousands of people stream back to the Swat Valley after months of fighting, one ...
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BURUNDI A sharing approach to land disputes (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.IRINnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=84272 BUJUMBURA, 7 May 2009 (IRIN) Returning to Burundi after years as a refugee in Tanzania, Jonas Saya knew it would be difficult to reclaim his land from former neighbours who had settled ...
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DEVELOPMENT-NAMIBIA - Land Reform Reaping Fruits Despite Problems (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
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 ...
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Olive groves on frontlines of West Bank conflict (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
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 ...
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SUDAN, Rising animosity in central state could fuel conflict (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81136 NAIROBI, 27 October 2008 (IRIN) A devastating conflict could erupt in the central Sudanese state of southern Kordofan unless longstanding grievances are urgently addressed, a thinktank has warned. "The Khartoum government must ...
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CHINA - Flirting With Land Tenure Reforms (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
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 ...
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Saving the Wildlife of Madagascar (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1844474,00.html?iid=spherein linebottom By Bryan Walsh / Andasibe Thursday, Sep. 25, 2008 When you're on the lookout for lemurs — the unusually cute and endangered group of primates found only on the African island of Madagascar — it helps ...
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Development Without Conflict, The Business Case for Community Consent Share (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
report seeks to build the 'business case' for sponsors of largescale, highimpact projects to treat the consent of the host community as a requirement of project development. Date: May, 2007 Authors: Jon Sohn, Authors: Steven Herz, Jon Sohn, Antonio La Vina ...
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BURUNDI- Land remains key challenge in reintegration of returnees (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79891 NYANZALAC, 19 August 2008 (IRIN) Although he looks frail, Cossan Ntabwigwa, in his late 60s, is a determined man. He recently returned from Tanzania, where he had been ...
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ZIMBABWE, Winter wheat on course for smallest ever crop (Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
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 ...
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