Media reports over the years have increasingly used the term “land grabbing:”

- Post Newspaper, 29th August 2000 - MMD cadres grabbing land in Kabangwe and Chazanga area of Chieftainess Mungule.
-Post Newspaper, April 15, 2010 - MMD cadres led by the Lusaka Provincial Chairman grabbing land from Ngombe resident

-Times of Zambia, 29th November 2002 - investors in tobacco farming grabbing land from poor villagers in Chipata, Kasenengwa and Chipangali constituencies in Eastern Province.

This literature review aims to situate farm labour within the particular history of the development of agriculture in the Cape while providing a critical assessment of the changing approaches to thinking about farm workers and their socio-economic needs by employers and the state. The review aims to provide a knowledge baseline from which to distil key questions to guide an applied process of research and social dialogue in the Cape Winelands District and beyond

This paper is published in Conservation and Society, Volume 4, No. 1, March 2006 which mainly examine the detailed variations of CPR use across different agro-climatic zones and critically analyzing the implications of such variations in understanding of the commons.

Insecure land tenure and property rights are an impediment to the construction of water infrastructure in many developing countries. This paper explores whether alleviating this impediment through a land titling program in rural Peru is associated with improvements in water access. The economics literature on the links between property rights and investment decisions has amassed yet, due to the unique characteristics of water, it is not obvious how water service provision would respond to improvements in land tenure.

Twenty years after the end of apartheid farm dwellers remain some of the most vulnerable people in South Africa, with many still facing extreme tenure insecurity and lacking access to adequate housing and basic services.2 The approximately three million black South Africans (6% of the population) who live on privately owned farms in formerly white commercial farming areas are among the poorest South Africans,3 whose vulnerability is exacerbated by their “socio-economic marginality and geographical isolation”.4

The report provides a conceptual framework for understanding the application of 'adjudication' to land rights verification as part of a general land administration function that includes offregister rights; and outlines the motivation for developing such as system in South Africa, with some provisional ideas about systematising and institutionalising land rights adjudication to include off-register rights.

This is a documentary collating the experiences and stories of rural communities supported by the Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA).

AFRA, in partnership with OZA and TA, assists women, youth and men residing or working on rural commercial farmland in the UMgungundlovu District to mobilise around key issues impacting on their quality of life and access to sustainable livelihoods, engaging with and influencing policies and processes that impact on their land and development rights.

This bulletin is prepared by the Friends of the Custodians Committee. The objective is to share timely information about the SDG land indicator 1.4.2 and support its reclassification from Tier III to Tier I by October 2018. 

A mulher em Moçambique é a principal utilizadora da terra, geradora de renda e veículo de disseminação de valores e educação na família”. Por isso, a sua participação na gestão e administração da terra e outros recursos naturais mostra se imprescindível.

Em 2013, o Centro Terra Viva (CTV) iniciou a monitoria dos processos e procedimentos seguidos pelas instituições do Estado para o licenciamento ambiental e de uso da terra de empreendimentos económicos que recaem sobre as áreas ocupadas pelas comunidades locais. O projecto da fábrica de liquefacção do gás natural, a ser implantado pela Anadarko no distrito de Palma, em Cabo Delgado, marcou o arranque desta actividade. A partir de 2015, a instituição pretende estender este tipo de acções a outros pontos do país.

A Anadarko Moçambique Área 1, Limitada, empresa dedicada à prospecção, pesquisa, desenvolvimento, produção, transporte, transmissão e comercialização de hidrocarbonetos e seus derivados, em associação com a Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos, E. P., empresa pública dedicada ao mesmo objecto, pretende construir uma fábrica de liquefacção de gás natural no distrito de Palma, Província de Cabo Delgado, Moçambique.

O Centro Terra Viva (CTV) em parceria com o Observatório do Meio Rural (OMR), realizou no dia 26 de Março de 2015, no Anfiteatro do Museu de História Natural, na Cidade de Maputo, um debate público sobre o tema “O papel da gestão e administração de terras na promoção do desenvolvimento rural”, reunindo cerca de 26 participantes, dos quais 19 homens e 07 mulheres, em representação de instituições públicas, académicas e de organizações da sociedade civil.