Villagers to Get Land to Rear Cattle
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KUALA TERENGGANU: The state government will provide a six- hectare piece of land for residents of Kampung Pulau Redang to keep their goats and cattle.  The move comes as state government officials are concerned that the sight of the animals roaming would turn tourists away from the island.
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By BRIAN DONNELLY  WITH the promise of cheap land, it might just be a steppe in the right direction for adventurous Scottish farmers.
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OBLIGADO, Paraguay  - Few towns in Paraguay's impoverished countryside have a stoplight, well-paved roads or a library. This remote farming community has all three, and residents cite one reason: soybeans.
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Plans to develop Heart of the Triad acres will be met with enthusiasm by many landowners who find their property more valuable. For others, however, HOT looks like a threat to a traditional way of life.
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 23--A new marketplace planned to spring from agricultural land west of Boynton Beach got a go-ahead Thursday from the Palm Beach County Commission.
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By GALLOWAY, Jill  16 farmers in the region are hoping to be finalists. ------------ --------   Sixteen farmers in Horizon's Manawatu-Wanganui region are going for the top environment prize, hoping to be finalists in the region's Ballance Farm Environment awards.
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Environmentalists say they can return a 7,000-acre farm to its natural state as a thriving wetland by allowing it to flood.
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HATO EL CHARCOTE, Venezuela  - Venezuelan troops  and police escorted local authorities to inspect a cattle ranch  owned by Britain's Vestey Group on Saturday in the first  government enforcement of a rural land redistribution law that  critics say threatens private property.
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By Margie Wood, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 18--The Red Creek Land Co. is nearing completion of plans for a cluster development of 90 home sites in the Turtle Buttes area east of Beulah.
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For more than four decades, Rod Arbuthnot has run his farm in a fashion many conservationists love. He uses rotational grazing on his rangeland. Some 41 acres of native grass strips protect water quality on the streams that flow on the farm. Wildlife areas are left for deer, turkey and prairie chickens.
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Once villagers learn about their rights, NGO Tostan finds, they begin to reshape their communities in order to assert them.
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GUIHUA, China -- For years now, nearly half the rice, wheat and vegetable farmers in this village in Henan province have been unable to make a living off their land. They have turned instead to more profitable migrant work in large, faraway cities.
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By Christian Hill, The Olympian, Olympia, Wash.  Sep. 22--LACEY -- The city and a private landowner are poised to unite in an effort to turn hundreds of acres of vacant land in Hawks Prairie into a vibrant community center.
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Hundreds of squatters have moved onto this vast cattle ranch and planted crops in hopes the land will one day be declared their own, putting them sharply at odds with the British-owned company that claims rightful ownership.
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The Karnataka state government is trying to slow growth in Bangalore by encouraging new investors to set up their facilities in new townships.The concept of satellite towns is not new to Bangalore. While companies moved to these satellite towns because of the relatively cheap real estate, they did not provide housing there. As a result, employees had to commute from their homes in Bangalore to townships like Electronic City.Karnataka will now insist that companies establishing facilities in the new townships should also provide housing for their employees, said M.N. Vidyashankar, secretary for information technology in the state government. The township at Bidadi will be self-contained with schools, malls, and a direct link to an international airport under construction, he added.Besides the new townships, the government is also trying to reduce migration from the hinterland into Bangalore by trying to route new investments in IT, call centers, and business process outsourcing (BPO) facilities to other towns in Karnataka like Belgaum, Hubli, Bellary, and Mysore. The government has acquired land in some of these towns to be developed in partnership with the private sector.To get access to new staff pools, as well as to cut costs, Indian outsourcers are looking at smaller towns where they can set up their new facilities, said Siddharth Pai, a partner at outsourcing consultancy firm Technology Partners International Inc. (TPI) in Houston. Some outsourcing companies like Infosys already have operations in towns around Bangalore, like Mysore and Mangalore.Some of these small towns are centers for education, and hence good places to hire staff, Pai said. The only drawback so far has been poor connectivity by road and air, which the government should try to solve, he addedWith a population of over 6.5 million, the Indian city of Bangalore is reeling from too much growth at too fast a pace. The city houses the services delivery centers of top Indian outsourcers like Infosys Technologies and Wipro, and multinational companies like IBM, Dell, and Oracle.The traffic jams, high cost of housing, and shortage of staff in the city has not, however, slowed down new entrants to the city. In August, the state of Karnataka, of which Bangalore is the capital, cleared 52 new investments in the area of IT, said Vidyashankar.IT, call center, and BPO facilities in Bangalore employ 480,000 direct staff, apart from providing indirect employment to over 3 million other people, according to Vidyashankar. These sectors contribute to 36 percent of the state&#39;s GDP (gross domestic product), which is expected to increase to 50 percent of GDP by 2011, he added.
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BANGALORE, India -- For three generations, two families have fought over an acre of farmland in an arid stretch of southern India, each waving documents to support its claim.
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Venezuelan officials go into a UK-owned cattle farm that they may expropriate under land reform plans.