By: Deon Schlechter
Date: September 14th 2016
Source: New Era
Namibia has the potential and is poised to enable a programme of improved rangeland management in local level land use planning and improved marketing conditions in communal areas.
This is true for the northern communal areas (NCAs) –
By: Kagondu Njagi
Date: November 9th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Rangelands threatened further as pastoralists struggling to graze animals sell firewood so their families can eat
By: New Era Staff Reporter
Date: February 8th 2016
Source: New Era
Windhoek - Namibia is to spend a staggering N$30 billion in real terms over the next 20 years in a drastic effort to restore its rangelands and alleviate bush encroachment.
Date: 7 July 2016
Source: Today
Fraught land policy based on collective ownership puts rural life at a crossroads
BEIJING — Among communist China’s holy pilgrimage sites, Xiaogang Village stands out. The tiny place is a living shrine to villagers who defied the party to dismantle disastrous
By: Danica Lo
Date: September 23rd 2016
Source: Food and Wine
Crowdsourcing and contracts help smallholder farmers in Ghana and Kenya.
By: Owen Guo
Date: November 15th 2016
Source: New York Times
BEIJING — The Chinese authorities said on Tuesday that they had executed a farmer convicted of killing a village official after the demolition of the farmer’s home, despite months of public outcry in sympathy with the farmer.
By: Daniel Pelz
Date: February 12th 2016
Source: DW.com
New studies show that land degradation is advancing and that African countries are among the worst hit. Poorer communities suffer the most though there is some cause for hope.
By: Jack Davies
Date: August 15th 2016
Source: Phnom Penh Post
Smallholder farmers have a crucial role to play in tempering the growing pains of Cambodia’s transition to an industrialised economy, but unless something is done, they will face a land shortage in the coming years, according to the
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: Francis Mugerwa
Date: December 21st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Monitor
Hoima — Fifty three families which were evicted from land to pave way for the construction of an oil waste treatment plant by a US firm in August 2014, have finally reached an understanding with the landlord to restore
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: Sri Lanka Guardian
Farmers, adivasis and landless rural workers to assemble at Jantar Mantar