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Source: Landesa
Written by: Roy Prosterman
A growing population, changing weather patterns, and increased global demand for farmland affect the lives of people throughout Africa and make the security of their land rights more important than ever.
The governments of many countries are putting in…
Source: Future Agricultures
Written by:Nathan Oxley
For several years Future Agricultures has worked on pastoralism within African settings. For comparison, this post looks at a case from theTibetan Plateau, where pastoralists are facing similar challenges to those investigated by our…
The following blog story was written by Laia Domènech, visiting fellow in the Environment and Production Technology Division at IFPRI, in honor of World Water Day 2015. The theme of this year’s event on March 22 is “Water for Sustainable Development.”
A set of 17 Sustainable Development…
Around the world, women in 155 countries face legal restrictions on the economic opportunities available to them, according to the recent World Bank Group's report Women, Business and the Law 2016, which highlights the challenges women face in the global economy and underscores the need for legal…
Who walks away from fertile agricultural land available to lease for as little as $1 per year per hectare? Recent reports indicate international investors are doing just that across sub-Saharan Africa.
Investors began pouring into the continent with pockets full of cash and get-rich-quick dreams…
Last spring Africa’s biggest sugar producer, Illovo Sugar, adopted a ‘zero tolerance’ approach to land grabs. In November, it published a roadmap for how it plans to implement it. Both resources are available in English and Portuguese.
A policy commitment is an essential first step to ensuring…
Date: 23 février
Par: Greenpeace
La nouvelle frontière de la déforestation se trouve désormais en Afrique. C’est une économie complexe, reposant sur un dédale de filiales difficile à déchiffrer. Mais parfois, la longue chaîne de capitaux qui menace la forêt remonte jusqu’en France. Exemple avec le…
By: Eileen Omosa, PhD
To talk about land tenure, land rights and security of tenure on land without confusing your readers, listeners or self makes sense for a number of reasons: you will capture the attention of your audience, the participants will learn from you, makes it easier for you to…
Despite certain progress in recent years a large proportion of the world’s rural population, especially in low and middle-income countries, still does not have statutory recognized rights to the agricultural land and other natural resources they have been using for generations and on which they…
Date: 14 avril 2016
Source: oxfamblogs.org
En ce 17 avril, CULTIVONS* en Afrique de l’Ouest se joint au mouvement global pour soutenir les luttes paysannes à travers le monde répondant à l’appel de Via Campesina**. Pour CULTIVONS, la priorité reste et demeure toujours la défense des exploitants…
By Matt Kandel, a Newton International Fellow in the Department of Development Studies at SOAS.
One Monday afternoon last August I was seated underneath a large palm tree with my friend, Simon, in Soroti Town in rural eastern Uganda, both of us relaxing and seeking a minor respite from the…
King Leopold’s Ghost and the 21st century scramble for Africa’s farms and foods
AID AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT / CORPORATE POWER / FARMING AND AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT / FOOD / NEOLIBERALISM
BY: Joan Baxter
About 10 million people — or more — perished in Belgian King Leopold’s Congo during…