By: Joe Brock Date: May 26th 2016 Source: Reuters Africa JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's parliament on Thursday approved a bill allowing state expropriations of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership, an emotive issue two decades after the end of apartheid.

By: Chris Arsenault Date: September 8th 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Under rental agreements, small-scale landowners retain their title deeds, but larger companies with access to capital and machinery pay for the right to use the land to grow their crops

By: Kieran Guilbert Date: November 1st 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation FREETOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When floods struck several slums across Sierra Leone's capital last year, 55-year-old Amienata Bangura was forced to flee as her small shop, stock and years of savings were wiped

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: Chris Arsenault Date: March 8th 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation TORONTO, March 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women in more than 90 countries still lack equal rights to own land, hurting food production and efforts to tackle poverty, Rwanda's former agriculture minister said.

By: Socorro Leite, National Director, Habitat Brazil Date: August 5th 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation This year, Brazil is hosting the world’s biggest sports event – the Summer Olympic Games. While athletes arrive in Rio to compete for medals and global audiences prepare to watch the

By Dominik Bosnjak Date: September 22nd 2016 Source: Android Headlines

By: David Lumu Date: November 10th 2016 Source: New Vision Uganda Key among the solutions is reforming the land laws in the country to provide escape routes for Government in case land owners refuse compensation

By: Nyemudzai Kakore Date: February 11th 2016 Source: AllAfrica.com / The Herald Government has introduced a new data system that will curb multiple farm ownership by not allowing anyone who already has multiple farms under A1 or A2 to be allocated another piece of land. The new database system is

By: Johnson Okanlawon Date: March 13th 2016 Source: National Mirror

By: Jennifer Duncan and Jaron Vogelsang Date: August 10th 2016 Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Civil society groups say failure to pass land reform could plunge the country into violence

By: Manuela Picq Date: September 29th 2016 Source: Intercontinental Cry Magazine Challenging Terra Nullius in the courts of Guatemala Copones is a large Maya Q’eqchi’ territory in Guatemala, in the northern province of Quiché along the Mexican border with Chiapas. Q’eqchi’ communities have