5 September 2020
China estimates that by 2030, when its population is expected to reach 1.5 billion, it will need to produce an additional 100 million tons of food grains each year.
New Delhi: China faces a daunting task to feed 22 per cent of the world population with only 07 per cent of the global arable land.
4 September 2020
Lesotho Prime Minister Dr Moeketsi Majoro reports that the country aims to overhaul its underperforming agricultural sector with the objective of improving both food security and attracting export-oriented investment into the production of high-value crops, such as fruit, vegetables and plant-based
1 September 2020
In the six months since the coronavirus began its global spread, more than 15 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and more than 600,000 have perished. Governments around the world have instituted lockdowns and shut down businesses. Entire industries have been devastated, notably travel
31 August 2020
THE minister of urban and rural development, Erastus Uutoni, has applied to the High Court to evict about 2 000 people who allegedly grabbed unserviced municipal land at Okahandja.
Uutoni and the Municipality of Okahandja are asking the court to authorise the eviction of people who allegedly
21 August 2020
Residents in Namibia’s capital Windhoek are tapping into new techniques to grow food, overcoming food insecurity amid the biting COVID-19 pandemic.
In the heart of the bustling informal settlement of Goreangab, 42 -year-old Lucky Matunge is breaking new ground and growing vegetables in sacks that
17 August 2020
The Otavi Town Council has vowed to fast track the allocation of plots after a number of residents complained they are yet to be presented with proof of ownership despite paying for the land almost a year ago.
Mayor George Garab said the local authority will act with urgency to resolve the issue
14 August 2020
The World Food Programme said on Friday it was rapidly scaling up operations in Democratic Republic of Congo with millions facing "the world's second biggest hunger emergency."
The United Nations agency said it needed $172 million to prevent millions from plunging deeper into hunger over the next
13 August 2020
(Main photo: Indonesia - Employment in agriculture, services and industry [% of total employment]. The data is according to the World Bank compilation of development indicators, collected from official sources.)
The rate at which the country is losing farmers is a cause for concern. If it
12 August 2020
In this land news update from South Africa we focus on:
Our changing Covid 19 context
The unresolved problem of farm worker evictions
Budget cuts and food insecurity
Contestation over land administration in communal areas in KwaZulu-Natal province
The need for a digital deeds registry platform
10 August 2020
Malnutrition and food insecurity are major contributing factors to the San people’s vulnerability to the Covid-19 pandemic in southern Africa.
The San are extremely resilient people, successfully maintaining their culture in the face of the harmful effects of globalisation and modern societal
6 August 2020
JAKARTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indonesia has cut back its planned transfer of state forests to local communities this year by half - an area twice the size of Los Angeles - because of the coronavirus outbreak, according to the Ministry of Environment and Forestry.
Bambang Supriyanto, the