Book of the Month
Food Not Lawns
Heather C. Flores

A Multipronged Approach to Ensuring Food Security [  CRDI  ] Fri, 20 Oct 2006 tenure for city farmers, governments at all levels could reduce poverty and help improve the lives of slum dwellers. By actively supporting urban agriculture Read More ...
Make them wear Cebuano costume? [  Sun.Star  ] Tue, 10 Oct 2006 Edmund del Puerto, land tenure section head of the Division for the Welfare of the Urban Poor, said a one-hectare lot in Sitio Tac-an, Barangay Budlaan, Cebu Read More ...
Kenya: Land Policy Addresses Clashes And Absentee Landlords [  AllAfrica.com  ] Mon, 30 Oct 2006 Other key areas that the proposed land policy seeks to address are problems related to historical injustices over land tenure, the mushrooming of slums and Read More ...
DENR gives out free patent titles in Carigara [  Philippine Information Agency  ] Mon, 09 Oct 2006 On the other hand, land tenure appraisal is presently being undertaken in Barangays Canal, Cutay, Hiraan, Tangnan, Libo and Baruguhay for a possibility of an Read More ...
Haze brings misery, health problems in Indonesia [  Reuters India  ] Fri, 06 Oct 2006 elephant. Land tenure disputes have also been blamed for pushing others to set fires, WWF Indonesia, a conservation group, has said. Read More ...

Vietnam scientist warns about deadly impact of imported weed [  Thanh Nien Daily  ] Wed, 25 Oct 2006 Ho Chi Minh Citys National University wrote in an article in Vietnamese language newspaper Tuoi Tre that Salvinia Molesta, found in some city gardens, was a Read More ...

Detroit volunteer dedicated to less fortunate [  DetNews.com  ] Thu, 05 Oct 2006 on her thesis in Detroit she met Brother Rick Samyn, who was the Urban Farm Coordinator for the Earth Works garden, an urban agriculture project administered Read More ...

Crying out for safety [  Amnesty International USA  ] Thu, 05 Oct 2006 that the government secretly agreed with the Arab tribes that would form the majority of the Janjawid that their key demand: land tenure and increased Read More ...

Whos on 2nd [  The Santa Barbara Independent  ] Thu, 02 Nov 2006 Meanwhile, the only kind of urbanization that Goletans welcome with open arms is urban agriculture, meaning voters there dont want to see condos moving in Read More ...

Your back yard…more beautiful than a tropical rainforest? [  Rock River Times  ] Wed, 11 Oct 2006 Kingsville, Kan. and is designing the signature Heartland Harvest Garden, planned as the nations premier edible landscape. His Read More ...

Ethiopia: Office to Loan 12 Mln. Birr to Unemployed Youth [  AllAfrica.com  ] Thu, 12 Oct 2006 the loan to the youth in the town that would be engaged in micro and small-scale businesses, construction, service, and urban agriculture sectors, among others Read More ...

UraniumSA makes a positive debut on ASX [  Ninemsn  ] Wed, 18 Oct 2006 Managing director Russel Bluck said the company would focus its exploration efforts on a land tenure covering the Kingoonaya palaeodrainage system on the Read More ...

The urban oases [  The News Journal  ] Thu, 26 Oct 2006 Not bad for a gardener entering the city gardens contest for the first time. The tour is to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the city gardens contest. Read More ...

Rival Land Claims Could Stoke Tensions in North [  Institute for War and Peace Reporting  ] Thu, 12 Oct 2006 in Dasht-e-Owdan and neighbouring areas close to the northern border with Tajikistan highlight the lack of clarity about land tenure across Afghanistan as a Read More ...

Canberra presses its agenda at Pacific Islands Forum [  World Socialist Web Site  ] Tue, 24 Oct 2006 Proposals to resolve what PACER documents refer to as “land tenure issues” by privatising tribal and communal land holdings are deeply unpopular in the Read More ...

Final Week For Lookout Mountain Fall Events [  The Chattanoogan  ] Fri, 27 Oct 2006 below. Be on Lookout to take part in the fun. Rock City Gardens celebrates its German heritage at Rocktoberfest this Saturday, Oct. 28 Read More ...

Planting Starts Around City Despite Council Warnings [  AllAfrica.com  ] Thu, 26 Oct 2006 Another farmer in Warren Park said urban agriculture should be encouraged as it gave families an opportunity to avoid buying maize-meal. Read More ...