Land tenure rights are fundamental to improving food security, promoting gender equality, ensuring sustainable urban development, building resilience, reducing land degradation and promoting peace and ...

Reverend Mbhekiseni Mavuso faced his community being forcibly removed from their ancestral land in the 1960s. Today, they ...

Community land tenure and women land rights are some of the issues a section of non-State actors have purposed to tackle in a newly formed consortium that has roped in the government. Ardhi Caucus, ...

Landowners receiving their land certificates in Aboudé-Kouassikro, Agnéby-Tiassa, southern Côte d'Ivoire. The aftermath of the 2010-2011 post-electoral crisis has cast rural land conflicts as a ...

OPINIONBy Joseph KayembaAccording to the World Bank’s insightful economic update report for 2024, on Uganda, about 80% of Ugandan households depend on renewable natural resources—such as agricultural ...

Tarja Halonen is former President, Finland (2000-2012), Member of the Council of Women World Leaders and United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Land Ambassador. 15 June 2023 Women ...

Land tenure system in Nigeria is a huge matter for concern, especially for investors seeking credit from commercial banks.

Land-use planning, although a mechanism for development, can also generate insecurity during its implementation. This article argues that tenure security and land-use planning should not be ...

A video recording of the "How Community Forestry Can Strengthen Sustainable Landscape Management and Land Tenure Security" session of the 2024 World Bank Land Conference. The World Bank Land ...

The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has strengthened its coordination with the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples ...

Marc Wegerif receives research funding from the DSTI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security (CoE-FS). He is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Pretoria and a Principal ...