By: Baher Kamal
Date: February 1st 2016
Source: Inter Press Service / AllAfrica.com
Cairo — Despite the enormous challenges facing Africa now, the leaders of its 1.2 billion plus inhabitants have decided to spotlight the issue of Human Rights With a Particular Focus on the Rights of Women in
By: Betty Mutesi (International Alert)
Date: August 23rd 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Rwanda's women have equal rights in law. But the government and regular Rwandans must confront the country's systems of discrimination
In rural Rwanda, as in most developing countries, owning and
By: Mike Cohen and Eric Ombok
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: Business Day Live
JOSEPHINE Mbinya bends from the waist to pluck beans from the black soil on her smallholding south of Nairobi. She throws them in a heap on the side of the field.
By: Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Date: September 16th 2016
Source: New Times
Sitting in the doorway of her residential house in the remote Murundi Sector, Kayonza District in Eastern Province, Verena Uwineza is sorting beans for evening meal on a traditional basket.
It is Monday, September 12. By most
Representatives of farming organisations, NGOs and the public research agency met in January 2016 in the Bina Desa offices in Jakarta.
By: Silas Gbandia
Date: September 28th 2016
Source: Equal Times
A former member of Sierra Leone’s parliament has spoken of his determination to put an end to what he describes as the “underhand deals” taking place between the authorities and international palm oil producers in his country.
By: Duncan Gromko
Date: May 2nd 2016
Source: The Guardian
Ethiopia has confirmed its commitment to restore its degraded lands to improve food security and biodiversity. Now, it’s looking to the private sector for support.
By: Armando Mombelli
Date: October 14th 2016
Source: Swissinfo.ch
The worrying rise in foreign investors buying up land in poor countries is set to get worse in future, taking valuable resources from local populations. A report out later this month by a Bern database into ‘land grabbing’ should
The majority of small-scale farmers have no legal access to water
By: Cécile Barbière
Date: Wednesday 8 June 2016
Source: The Guardian
Euro-MPs criticise G7-led food security programme, saying it pushes agribusiness and GM to the detriment of biodiversity and small-scale farmers
Goma, 23 November 2016 – UN-Habitat, in close collaboration with the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, has launched a USD 12 million land programme that seeks to promote peace and stability.