Medici Land Governance (MLG) has partnered with the Government of Rwanda to pilot a project that aims to make land transfers a paperless process. For the pilot, MLG has built a land transaction platform on blockchain called Ubutaka, which will be integrated with Rwanda’s existing land registry…
La région centrale de la Middle Belt au Nigeria a été secouée cette année par une recrudescence des violences entre fermiers et éleveurs. Le changement climatique et la désertification intensifient les tensions, poussant les éleveurs du nord à se déplacer plus au sud, sur le territoire des…
Os Prêmios de Inovação para Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Secretário-Geral da Commonwealth foram lançados para reconhecer e celebrar as contribuições que os inovadores nos setores público, privado e sem fins lucrativos estão fazendo no avanço das metas de desenvolvimento sustentável nos países da…
Land is essential to our lives – we grow food on it and rely on it for economic growth and development. In sub-Saharan Africa approximately 83% of people depend directly on land for survival.
However, approximately two-thirds of the continent’s productive land is degraded – it has lost its…
The Dutch LAND-at-scale program was launched in March last year and since then, two rounds for land intervention ideas have been released. The program seeks ideas that contribute to improving land governance in developing countries, and that ultimately support better food and nutrition security,…
Handing out title deeds is not enough
Builders are busy outside Louisa Qangiso’s house in Khayelitsha, a township on the outskirts of Cape Town. The 49-year-old is putting up eight studio flats in her backyard that she will rent out for 3,000 rand ($177) per month. This could almost triple the…
Source: afriqueitnews.com
Date: 1 juillet
L’autorité de gestion et d’utilisation des terres du Rwanda a déployé, il y a quelques jours, une application qui va simplifier les affaires relatives aux achats et ventes de terrains dans le pays. Via cette application, il est possible de vérifier…
The LAND-at-scale programme got a great response to the second call for ideas. The programme received 25 new ideas from 19 different countries. Support continues for enhancing land governance and tenure security. This is evident in the response and effort from embassies, NGOs and knowledge…
Estão abertas inscrições para o Prêmio GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize, que é uma competição pan-africana de jovens empreendedores (as) inovadores (as) que buscam a oportunidade de financiamento de projetos no setor agroalimentar no continente Africano.
As inscrições serão julgadas para premiar dois…
Pigmeus são povos antigos que existem até hoje e são cheios de mistérios. Entenda suas origens, costumes e como é dificil a vida desse povo.
Você, certamente, já ouviu falar sobre os pigmeus. Apesar desse termo geralmente ser usado de forma pejorativa, poucas pessoas sabem o que ele realmente…
Rwanda and Tanzania are among six countries in Africa seen to be working towards securing land rights to at least 30 per cent of their women by 2025.
According to a report by the Africa Land Policy Centre, these six countries—the rest being Botswana, Ethiopia, Senegal and Malawi — have or are…
As comunidades agrícolas nas encostas do Ruanda estão cada vez mais vulneráveis às inundações. Para alguns agricultores, uma aldeia verde oferece a esperança de um futuro sustentável.