
Rights activists want changes in land laws to benefit Malawians
8 March 2022
grouping called Land Justice Consortium has vowed to ensure that land law amendments favor the marginalized, saying there is need to liberate the country from land colonization since most of the arable and prime land is “in the wrong hands”. The grouping comprises organizations such as Land…

Land tenure continues to be major objective of development agenda
20 October 2021
With a total of 65 participants (37% women) from 14 countries (Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Pakistan, Sudan and Uganda) the 10th and last Capitalization Meeting of the EU Land Governance Transversal Project, was virtually…

Ambitious $104 million program targets land degradation in Africa and Central Asian countries
16 June 2021
Main photo: Farmers at a FAO anti-desertification project in Burkina Faso, one of 11 countries targeted by the Global Environment Fund Initiative The global launch of a $104 million initiative signals an ambitious effort by a range of partners to safeguard drylands in the context of climate change,…
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About 85% of the population live in rural areas and depend on small scale agricultural production which is increasingly vulnerable to climate shocks.

Groundbreakers: Women overcome bias and lead sustainable use of land and resources
8 March 2022
In many countries men control who gets to use, own, and make decisions about land. “We used to stay in a corner, quiet. If someone came to take our land or exploit our forests, we did not have the courage to try to stop them.” These words from a woman in Mecoburi, Mozambique reflect how women…

Webinar on COVID-19 and Tenure Security
9th Capitalization Meeting of the EU Land Governance Programme 3 NOVEMBER 2020, 10.00 – 11.30 CET (9.00 – 10.30 GMT) Project implementation in all countries and at the transversal level have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Anecdotal evidence from many countries suggest that the pandemic…