Landless Thais get homes in mangrove forest in conservation push
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Thai authorities have reached an agreement with a landless community that will allow villagers to live in a mangrove forest if they help protect the area, a unique collaboration that could work across the country, land rights groups said. Under a memorandum of understanding between the government, human rights groups and […]
Indigenous people left landless as traditional farming wanes in north-east India
Shillong, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation Tribal people in north-eastern India are increasingly becoming landless and poor as their traditional farming practices are abandoned in favour of commercial plantations, Indigenous experts warned last week. “Jhum” is the practice by tribal groups in the north-eastern states of rotating land use for temporary farming, resulting in parts of forest […]
POSTCARDS: THE CAMBODIAN CEMETERY WHERE THE LIVING OUTNUMBER THE DEAD
MATT BLOMBERG reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation on the plight of landless people in Phnom Penh slums…