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Contentious Words
This issue of Land Times comes at a time of much contention over language, terms and text that will form global standards against which future performance will be assessed. In the rethinking of land and natural resource development, this period of 2015 encompasses numerous, ongoing global-level consultations, debates and negotiations that will produce the new development
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Toward FAO’s Near East/North Africa Regional Conference
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) holds regional conferences every two years where ministers of agriculture and high officials of Member States from the same geographic region, meet to elaborate, beyond the borders of the individual countries, on challenges and priority matters related to food and agriculture. These conferences promoting regional coherence on global policies and
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The Test of India’s Land Bill
The Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has re-promulgated a controversial land ordinance for the third time. The much-contested Land Acquisition Bill is has arisen as a major ideological contest for the new administration. The current Bill seeks to amend the 2013 law passed under the United Progressive Alliance-dominated government. The current government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party
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Terminology Corner |
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