Improving Market Access Through Research and Analysis
While increasing access to well-functioning markets for high-value agricultural products is one key component of agricultural and economic development, an equally important component is ensuring that...
View ArticleLand Grabs, Zero Sum Game. Presentation by Nidhi Tandon
“Here is a revised presentation from Nidhi Tandon, it has more notes to explain the presentation, it won’t be as good as having been in the conference for the presentation, but you can get the idea....
View ArticleUpdate 2010: Rural women’s access to land and property in selected countries
In 2004, FAO, IFAD, and the International Land Coalition (ILC) jointly published a report on progress towards the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW),...
View ArticleDifferentiation of Women's Land Tenure Security in Southern Africa
Poor women in developing countries rely on land as source of livelihood. Increasing pressure on land — brought on by globalisation pressures, increased population and privatisation — undermines women’s...
View ArticleUnleashing Agriculture’s Potential for Improved Nutrition and Health in Malawi
Location: Lilongwe, Malawiread more
View ArticleUnleashing Agriculture’s Potential for Improved Nutrition and Health in Malawi
Location: Lilongwe, Malawiread more
View ArticleWomen’s access to land and household bargaining power: a comparative...
WOLREC undertook this action research in order to enhance women’s bargaining power through improved access and control over land in the patrilineal and matrilineal communities in Southern and Northern...
View ArticleReview of the Land Reforms in Southern Africa 2010
This book forms part of a learning programme on ‘Land Reform From Below: Decentralised Land Reform in Southern Africa’.read more
View ArticleReview of the Land Reforms in Southern Africa 2010
This book forms part of a learning programme on ‘Land Reform From Below: Decentralised Land Reform in Southern Africa’.read more
View ArticleWomen and Land
Here it is an important book on Women’s Land Rights, published by the International Development Research Centre.read more
View ArticleFrom Under Their Feet. New paper on the gender dimensions of land grabbing in...
The paper builds on joint work by ActionAid and its local partners through the Women’s Land Rights (WOLAR) project, funded by the MDG3 Fund. It is informed by engagement of Southern African rural...
View ArticleInsights on Malawi's Economic Growth Strategy
Following democratization in 1994, the Malawi government put great emphasis on reducing poverty. The predominantly agrarian economy has had little rural-urban migration and Malawi’s current level of...
View ArticleWomen and Land Zimbabwe - empowering women as farmers
(…) “When time to sell produce came, he would pocket all the money alone. When I asked for my share, he would tell me it was his land and I must just continue working. He would say, “you are my...
View ArticleThe Green Belt Initiative and Land Grabs in Malawi
“The rationale of the GBI - Green Belt Initiative - is to ensure that the commercial farmers have access to large tracts of land for agriculture at the highest possible economies of scales. The...
View ArticleAfrican Union DRAFT
On 9.9.1999, the Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity issued a Declaration (the Sirte Declaration) calling for the establishment of an African Union, with a view, inter...
View ArticleSouthern Africa: In Southern Africa, Small Farmers Fight for Recognition
Blantyre — Groups representing small-scale farmers, rural women and social activists from the countries of the Southern African Development Community, SADC, are asking the regional bloc to consider...
View ArticleBig food and drink companies must act to stop conflicts over land as global...
The report ‘Sugar Rush: Land rights and the supply chains of the biggest food and beverage companies’ highlights examples of land grabs and disputes linked to companies that supply sugar for Coca-Cola...
View Article2013 Ibrahim Index of African Governance
Established in 2007, the Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) is the most comprehensive collection of quantitative data on governance in Africa. Compiled in partnership with experts from a number...
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How Egyptian farmers are adapting to water scarcity up and down a canal
EgyptNatural Resource Management If you wander up and down one of the many irrigation canals in Egypt’s Nile Delta, you’ll see a wide range of crops being grown. Fields of swelling water melons sit...
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