Land activism news
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2026
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How one Kenyan community is building a new future on reclaimed ground, globalvoices.org (May 14, 2026) - Climate storytelling often ignores young people – arts-based research can change that, theconversation.com (Feb 06, 2026)
- Community land trusts: Building a different kind of wealth, thenews.coop (Feb 03, 2026) — How the model is protecting US neighbourhoods from property speculation and gentrification
- Small-scale farmers produce more of the rich world’s food than previously thought – new study, theconversation.com (Jan 28, 2026)
2025
[edit | edit source]- Returning the Water, grassecon.substack.com (Dec 23, 2025) — How communities are restoring groundwater, compounding ecosystems, and building investable water futures, Grassroots Economics, Will Ruddick, Aude Peronne, and Ali Bin Shahid
- Congo’s communities are creating a 1-million-hectare biodiversity corridor, news.mongabay.com (Dec 18, 2025)
- Ecuador makes progress in legalizing indigenous lands to curb Amazon deforestation, efeverde.com (Dec 02, 2025)
- Maasai private landowners in Kenya come together to protect wildlife corridors, news.mongabay.com (Dec 01, 2025)
- The Cambodian women rising up to protect their communal land, positive.news (Nov 20, 2025)
- COP30 host Brazil creates 10 new Indigenous territories, BBC News (Nov 18, 2025)
- How land restoration could address malnutrition among India’s Indigenous families, theconversation.com (Oct 07, 2025)
- Boston’s Food Forests Take Root as a Climate Equity Strategy, insideclimatenews.org (Oct 03, 2025) — A decade of organizing has turned trash-strewn lots into edible parks. Now Boston is expanding food forests as part of its climate action plan. Ryan Krugman
- Seven Indigenous paths to protect the Amazon, news.mongabay.com (Sep 29, 2025)
- Deforestation Threatens Public Health. Securing Indigenous Land Rights Can Help, Researchers Find, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 11, 2025)
- How Farmers in Oregon Are Preserving Their Land for the Next Generation, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 29, 2025)
- Direct Access To Power, Alternative Editorial (Mar 23, 2025)
2024
[edit | edit source]- Bamboo bonanza: how a village in India used its forest to go from poverty to prosperity, theguardian.com (Dec 17, 2024)
- The resilience of women farmers in Chad battling climate challenges and social barriers, news.mongabay.com (Aug 29, 2024)
- For South Africa’s amaMpondo fighting to protect nature, ‘Everything is a being’, news.mongabay.com (Aug 19, 2024)
- Women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are pushing for land rights, and curbing gender-based violence in the process, positive.news (Mar 29, 2024)
- Afro-Brazilian quilombo community wins historic land claim, setting new precedent, news.mongabay.com (Feb 29, 2024)
- How traditional Hawaiian food is playing a key role in wildfire recovery, theguardian.com (Feb 21, 2024)
- Hopes for end to land conflicts raised by new agrarian courts in Colombia, news.mongabay.com (Feb 07, 2024)
2023
[edit | edit source]- Billions have been raised to restore forests, with little success. Here’s the missing ingredient, theconversation.com (Dec 07, 2023)
- Land use plan needed to combat climate change on ‘different scale’ - Taoiseach, irishtimes.com (Oct 25, 2023)
- The climate future is here, and it looks like this proud commune in S Africa, africanarguments.org (Aug 22, 2023) — With solar power, urban farms, and radical grassroots democracy, eKhenana provides an impressive model for a sustainable low-carbon future.
- Standing up and saying NO to erasing our environmental heritage. Stopping land encroachment., medium.com (May 09, 2023)
- Costa Rica restored its ravaged land to health. The rich UK has no excuse for such complete failure, George Monbiot, The Guardian (Apr 21, 2023)
- The Maasai community that took on the Tanzanian government – and won, Positive News (Jan 11, 2023)
2022
[edit | edit source]- Human disruption to Earth’s freshwater cycle has exceeded the safe limit, our research shows, The Conversation (Jun 27, 2022)
- Imagine we designed our cities on Seven Generations principles - actively stewarding our places for the future, The Daily Alternative (Jun 26, 2022)
- The farmers restoring Hawaii’s ancient food forests that once fed an island, theguardian.com (Jun 17, 2022)
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[edit | edit source]- Posts tagged land ownership from thealternative.org.uk, added 18:19, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
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