4 September 2017
President Juan Manuel Santos says the armistice between the government and the Latin American country's last active group will come into effect on October 1.
Colombia's government and the ELN, the country's last active guerrilla group, have agreed to a ceasefire after months of talks, the rebels
4 September 2017
The project is part of a cross country pilot being implemented by the LPI with support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the European Union (EU)
3 September 2017
If we are to address poverty in rural South Africa, we must prioritise good governance practices among communal property institutions in order to ensure that beneficiaries of the land reform programme begin to drive job creation and play their part towards poverty alleviation.
28 August 2017
Colombia's leftist FARC rebels seek political rebirth on Sunday as they move to transform into a party to seek elected office after disarming to end a half-century war.
About 1,000 delegates from the freshly demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia will launch a founding congress to
27 August 2017
The Party committee and government in Liaoning Province, northeast China, recently issued a document to steadily promote the implementation of rural collective property right system reform.
The document instructs officials to safeguard rural women's legitimate rights and interests in the process of
24 August 2017
Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has launched a blistering attack on recipients of government’s land restitution farms‚ saying they failed to use the land for producing food — and instead used it to build houses to generate profit.
23 August 2017
A development in Dorchester could be a model for affordable housing, and the 50th victim of the Grenfell fire is identified
22 August 2017
White farmers who were forcibly dispossessed of their property in Zimbabwe are suing President Robert Mugabe, claiming the government owes them compensation.
Mugabe’s government introduced a controversial land reform program in 2000 that led to squatters invading and seizing the majority of white
21 August 2017
The collapse of the Soviet Union gave rise to a vast archipelago of unclaimed man-made objects and land in Russia and beyond. Thousands upon thousands of roads, bridges, water pipes, gas pipes, power grids, cemeteries, farmland, and more have passed from state hands to no one in the last 26 years.
21 August 2017
(Ecofin Agency) - Launched in 2005 with a financial support from the World Bank, Madagascar’s land reform has yielded satisfying results, the Bretton Woods institution said on its website.
“Many other countries could follow Madagascar’s example. Actually, various African nations are already
15 August 2017
In Brazil, rural agricultural workers and land reform beneficiaries could be hardest hit by President Michel Temer's austerity policies.
13 August 2017
INDIGENOUS leaders will meet on Wednesday at a forum in Lismore as part of a state government review into the Aboriginal Land Rights Act.
Lismore is one of nine locations where the forums are being held as part of consultations to review the act to ensure its relevance for indigenous communities