3 April 2023
Ian Scoones reviews land reform related resettlement schemes which formed part of the post-Independence land reform efforts from 1980 to 2000. These initiatives had phases,reflecting the wider political economy, especially via the legal framework for land appropriation and redistribution by the…
27 March 2023
Robin Palmer sadly died on February 19th. Historian, lecturer, land campaigner, NGO worker and consultant, he was the original scholar activist. The large numbers of tributes that have been shared on many platforms (see here and here) are witness to his influence on many over several decades.
23 March 2023
Al Jazeera infiltrates large gold-smuggling rings and reveals a giant money laundering scheme in which billions of dollars’ worth of gold is smuggled every month from Zimbabwe to Dubai, allowing criminals to whitewash dirty money through a web of shell companies, fake invoices and paid-off…
Value: $380,000.00
Donors: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
Value: $4,390,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Value: $6,700,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Value: $400,000.00
Donors: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Value: $30,000.00
Donors: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
The 21st century in Zimbabwe’s land struggles were deeply rooted in colonial laws legitimating dispossession and controlling land allocation
20 October 2022
A review of initiatives and reports which examine the impacts of mining in four countries in Southern and Central Africa
The Land Portal Foundation, Mokoro Ltd and Transparency International co-hosted an interactive webinar on sextortion in land governance and its implications on June 25th, 2018. The webinar featured an interactive discussion among expert panelists. Sextortion is defined as the abuse of power to…
