By: Matheus Hamutenya
Date: October 24th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / New Era
After their land resettlement applications failed for about two decades, a group of fed-up farmers on Thursday moved onto farm Dickbusch - owned by government - with their livestock.
Date: 13 December 2016
Source: ABC.net
Australia is the only Commonwealth country that does not have a treaty with its Indigenous peoples and interestingly, the states are leading the charge, the ABC's editor of Indigenous affairs says.
Stan Grant said there was still a "big debate" around the
By News24Wire
Date: February 23rd 2016
Source: Business Tech
Changes in property ownership in South Africa have been nothing short of dramatic in the last two decades and is one of the biggest success stories, but is never brought to the fore, economist Mike Schussler told Fin24.
By: Emmanuel Ntirenganya
Date: April 19th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The New Times
Women activists have called for policy changes to allow people jointly owning a piece of land that is less than an hectare in size to use it as they please.
By: Filbert Rweyemamu
Date: August 14th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen
Arusha — Women from marginalized communities in Africa will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in order to raise awareness about land rights this October.
Programme manager of the Tanzania Gender Network Programme (TGNP) Grace
By: Rina Chandran
Date: September 26th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
VEMULAGHAT, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The peacefulness of the lush green fields of paddy and maize lining the road to Vemulaghat village in Telangana, India belies the anger of villagers protesting against
By: Andrew Mambondiyani
Date: October 31st 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
MUTARE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brian van Buuren, a white former farmer in Burma Valley, eastern Zimbabwe, couldn't hide his anger as he recalled how he lost almost everything during the country's
Date: January 2nd 2017
Source: Food Tank
The International Land Coalition (ILC) is a global alliance of 300+ civil society and intergovernmental organisations, working together to put people at the centre of land governance. It does so through shifting power to the women, men and communities who live on and from the land.
By: Stuart Lowman
Date: March 1st 2016
Source: Biznews.com
By: Lizabeth Paulat
Date: April 27th 2016
Source: Voice of America News
KAMPALA, UGANDA—Uganda has just finalized a deal to build a pipeline to Tanzania’s Tanga port, a deal that brings the country a step closer to exploiting its vast oil reserves. But gaps in land governance law could stand in
By: Rina Chandran
Date: August 18th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Conflicts over land in India will only increase as its economy grows quickly, and the most effective way to prevent them is to ensure land laws are simpler and more transparent, a