Our goal is to provide the scientific basis for development investments and policies that promote more productive, profitable agriculture, and healthier diets at no environmental cost. Low-income, smallholder farmers face significant challenges across sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). High population…
Les principaux résultats produits au cours de la période considérée dans le présent compte rendu ont inclus la prestation de services dans le cadre du dialogue politique de haut niveau et l’organisation de manifestations parallèles et de séances d’apprentissage sur les questions foncières et les…
The Guidelines for the Development of Curricula on Land Governance in Africa support the implementation of the AU Declaration on land issues and Challenges in Africa, in particular the call for Member States to, “Build adequate human, financial, technical capacities to support land policy…
In dryland Africa, access to land and water resources are central to pastoral livelihood activities. Policy intervention in these regions represents the outcome of concerted post-independence processes in which countries have committed to land tenure transformation as a policy objective. This…
Introduction: An electronic syndromic surveillance system for collecting, collating and analysing animal health and meat inspection records in Marsabit County, Kenya has been developed.
Architecture: The system comprises a cloud server linked to a series of data collection phones operated…
African tropical montane forests are facing fast and dynamic changes in land use. However, the impacts of these changes on stream water quality are understudied. This paper aims at assessing the effect of land use and physical catchment characteristics on stream water concentrations of dissolved…
The Partnership for Action: Improving Land Governance and Management in Africa Conference took place in Pretoria, South Africa from 15 - 17 August 2017. The conference was part of Habitat for Humanity’s activities under the Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Urban CSO Cluster of UN-Habitat…
Identifies the drivers of the land use changes that have displaced millions of rural people and continue to threaten millions more – particularly women; it unpacks the key land policy guidelines and why they have so far failed to ‘stick’ on the ground, and it sets out 14 actions to get to grips…
Publication features the key provisions on land governance in recent relevant international frameworks. Presents where new issues or themes appeared, issues that have gained additional support and those that have received less attention. Also highlights the particularities, strengths and…