25 January 2021
A PROPOSAL to introduce a policy to prevent Namibians from owning more than one farm is unlawful and will not be implemented.
This is according to an update report on the implementation of the second national land conference issued by the office of prime minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila at the
21 November 2020
Land News and Analysis
Weeks 43 – 46
South Africa
Southern, Central and Eastern Africa
19th October – 18th November 2020
News curated via knowledgebase.land
23 October 2020
WHILE the principle of land reform in Zimbabwe was primarily to address the skewed legacy of colonial land ownership imbalances, the late former president Robert Mugabe and his family engaged in greedy accumulation of farms establishing themselves as the new landed aristocracy.
Owen Gagare
By the
8 June 2020
A Lao woman held since March for protesting the government seizure of village land for a medical college and hospital was released after her family accepted compensation for their property loss, RFA has learned.
Keo, a resident of Xiengda village in the Saysettha district of the Lao capital
12 May 2020
Please meet the small community of Jacaré de Gonçalves Ferreira, in Caruaru, Brazil, where a group of women are celebrating their victory!
The community was built many years ago on public land that belonged to the Northeastern Train Company.
10 April 2020
On January 9, 2020, thousands of police entered the Dong Tam commune in Hanoi. A clash erupted, leading to the killing of three policemen and a civilian later named as Le Dinh Kinh. Once a veteran soldier and chief of police, the 84-year-old Kinh had become a leader of the Dong Tam people in a
3 April 2020
Villagers in Laos say a Chinese-owned banana plantation in has unfairly acquired the land of 46 families in the northern part of the country, many of whom were coerced by authorities into selling for a miniscule compensation package
The 46 families sold 60 hectares (148 acres) of their land in Houy
20 February 2020
“If you are stealing something it’s better if it’s small and hideable or something you can eat quickly and be done with, like guavas. That way, people can’t see you, be reminded that you are a shameless thief. It is still debatable as to why the white people were trying to do in the first place,
6 January 2020
Have Your Say: The Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill [B – 2019]
The ad hoc Committee to initiate and introduce legislation amending section 25 of the Constitution invites stakeholders and interested persons to submit written submissions on the Draft Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill
6 January 2020
Government vows to speed up return of confiscated farmland
The Myanmar government has almost finished a review of farmland confiscated during military rule and will hasten its return this year, an official of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation said.
17 December 2019
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, indigenous pygmy communities displaced from their lands for “conservation” and a community leader imprisoned for defending their rights
15 November 2019
The Land Portal Foundation is recruiting up to two new board members to complement its existing board.
The Land Portal was set up in 2009 as a partnership project dedicated to supporting the efforts of the rural poor to gain equitable access to land by addressing a fragmentation of information