Book of the Month
Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes: Designing Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Cities
Andre Viljoen

Honour for Evelyn [  The Kimberley Echo  ] Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:19:00 GMT the land in the Federal Court, Evelyn joined forces with other senior Miriwoong women elders to secure land tenure, which they did by the mid 1980's. Read More ...
Ranches to select new administrator tonight [  Centre Daily Times  ] Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:10:00 GMT By AMY SHERMAN. asherman@MiamiHerald.com The Southwest Ranches Town Council will announce its top choice for the town administrator job -- and possibly the Read More ...
Author speaks about edible forest gardens [  CMU The Tartan Online  ] Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:30:00 GMT In an online publication by Canadas Office of Urban Agriculture, President of the Urban Agriculture Network Jac Smit discussed some of urban farmings Read More ...
Act of foresight [  Frontline  ] Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:40:00 GMT If there is agrarian trouble and insecurity of land tenure nobody knows what is to happen. Therefore, these long arguments and these repeated appeals in Read More ...
Butterfly bushes dont have to put you in the shade [  Columbus Dispatch  ] Sun, 14 Jan 2007 13:48:00 GMT These are real problem-solvers and can be used as butterfly magnets in city gardens. This is the perfect size to plant under windows of your home because Read More ...

Carbon credit plan presented to Queen Charlotte council [  Queen Charlotte Islands Observer  ] Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:47:00 GMT 'We are interested in granting you land tenure in which to conduct a pilot project, if the technical and scientific challenges can be addressed,' he said. Read More ...

In Brief: Council budget deliberations [  Lindsay This Week  ] Tue, 30 Jan 2007 16:56:00 GMT Patti Peeters asked that $5000 be removed from the $14000 set aside to purchase plants for the City's gardens and downtown core. Read More ...

Find a moth, win a beer with an entomologist [  San Francisco Chronicle  ] Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:45:00 GMT by freelancer Ray Rogers; creating intimate garden space, by Horticulture editor and designer Lucy Hardiman; and collector's plants for city gardens, Read More ...

Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone's Poverty Reduction Pillars Are Crumbling [  AllAfrica.com  ] Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:39:00 GMT He had promised to revisit the land tenure of Sierra Leone, which is certainly an impediment to large-scale mechanized farming - that is yet to be done. Read More ...

Shirley OCP meeting proves anticlimactic [  Sooke News Mirror  ] Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:57:00 GMT issues such as Crown land tenure, improved environmental attributes, and settlement containment area have not been included in the present OCP. Read More ...

'Land laws too restrictive' [  Saipan Tribune  ] Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:03:00 GMT This buy-back provision is allowed in American Samoa, “which has the reputation of having the most traditional land tenure system in the US territories.” Read More ...

Fire forces three dozen people to flee in Putnam County [  Times Herald-Record  ] Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:10:00 GMT MAHOPAC, NY (AP) -- A raging fire forced three dozen residents to evacuate an apartment complex in the frigid darkness Friday morning. Read More ...

Durham greenbelt champions win for now [  Toronto Star  ] Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:34:00 GMT which at least buys them time to educate people and politicians about the importance of greenbelt lands for near-urban agriculture, he says. Read More ...

ORGANIC RUSH [  Monterey County Herald  ] Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:04:00 GMT But despite the levity, it's serious business, with workshops on E. coli, biodynamic viticulture, land tenure, grass-roots marketing and immigration. Read More ...

Our View: Crystal unclear; What do you think? [  Victoria News  ] Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:56:00 GMT Oh, it sounds, on the face of it, a lot like the botanical garden that was there before. Instead of land-dwelling animals and birds, the aquarium would have Read More ...

Twin 'sewer mines' plan to quench the thirst of city's gardens [  The Age  ] Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:12:00 GMT MELBOURNE City Council wants to drought-proof the city's parks and gardens by establishing 'sewer mines' at both ends of the city. Read More ...

Over 2000 titles have been issued to farmers on the Essequibo [  Stabroek News  ] Sat, 13 Jan 2007 09:25:00 GMT Through a massive programme of land tenure regularization from 2002 - 2005, the Commission was able to make a significant impact with land title delivery Read More ...