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Peer-reviewed publication
September 2018
Europe

Recently, we witnessed an immense increase in international land transactions in the Global South, a phenomenon slowly expanding in northern industrialized countries, too. Even though in Europe agriculture plays a decreasing economic role for rural livelihoods, the increases in land transactions by non-local, non-agricultural investors pervades rural life.

August 2018

In 2008;the world food crisis shifted agricultural investment to countries with productive land and cheap labour. The Nacala Corridor;one of the most fertile and populated areas of Mozambique;was heavily affected. At least 38 companies linked to large-scale agriculture;forestry and animal husbandry settled in the region.

August 2018
Malawi

Examines the political economy of agricultural commercialisation in Malawi over the past three decades;which has been influenced to a very large extent by the changing configurations of political elites and their underlying interests;incentives and motivations;including using the agricultural sector as a source of political patronage;fraud and corruption.

Peer-reviewed publication
June 2018
Southern Africa

This article is concerned with the adoption of small-scale irrigation farming as a climate-smart agriculture practice and its influence on household income in the Chinyanja Triangle. Chinyanja Triangle is a region that is increasingly experiencing mid-season dry spells and an increase in occurrence of drought, which is attributed largely to climate variability and change.

Reports & Research
May 2018
Angola
Africa

A video showing how Lutheran World Federation is working with rural communities, village chiefs, local and national administration to raise awareness and to support people in claiming their legal rights in a context in which a land law was passed to protect small-scale farmers and rural communities but often the legal procedure is not respected and farmers lose the land on which their livelihoo

Reports & Research
May 2018
Ethiopia

This business case provides a full scale;context specific and implementable “Business Case for the Rural Land Administration Information Service (RLAIS)”..This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.

Reports & Research
May 2018
Ethiopia

This summary provides a full scale;context specific and implementable "Business Case for the Rural Land Administration Information Service (RLAIS)".This resource was published in the frame of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) Programme.

Reports & Research
March 2018
Tanzania
Mozambique
Africa

Women disproportionately bear the negative impacts of large-scale land investments (in agribusiness, extractives, logging) in the global South.

Reports & Research
January 2018
Zimbabwe
Africa

Zimbabwe today has an agrarian structure made up of small, medium and large farms, all under different forms of land ownership. A landscape once dominated by 4,500 large-scale commercial farmers is now populated by about 145,000 smallholder households, occupying 4.1 million hectares, and around 23,000 medium-scale farmers on 3.5 million hectares.

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