Johannesburg –March 2025 – With the Expropriation Act now promulgated, land reform is in the spotlight again. As South Africa commemorates Human Rights Month, the land reform programme remains central to the country’s broader human rights discourse. Land ownership, access, and the productive use of land remain fundamental to the fulfilment of human rights. The ...

HARARE—Zimbabwe’s new land tenure policy aims to expose multiple farm ownership and identify underutilized land, potentially benefiting over 250,000 individuals on the government’s waiting list, according to Justice, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi. The government recently announced that beneficiaries of the land reform programme will now receive bankable, registrable, and transferable land tenure, ...

A call for CSI initiatives to help redress the land reform debacle 18 October 2024: Johannesburg – Ever since the land reform programme was initiated in 1994, the hopes of communities forcibly removed from their ancestral land have been dampened by the slow progress of land restitution and redistribution. Despite government efforts, it is clear ...

View of Afi River Forest Reserve, Cross River state: Nigeria lost 178,000 hectares (440,000 acres) of primary forest between 2001 and 2023. Image by David Nkwa via Wikicommons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Pioneering projects in Nigeria and Kenya are moving away from government-led land management to a more inclusive approach to address climate, biodiversity and socioeconomic needs. The ...

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), in collaboration with Kano State Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL), has said that Nigeria has committed to restoring four million hectares of degraded lands for agriculture development It was just said that the ACReSAL promised to support the restoration of one million hectares with the technical partnership of ...

THE Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) Holdings has urged wheat farmers to insure their crop against climate shocks and consolidate Government’s efforts towards boosting food security. AFC Insurance general manager and agriculture insurance expert, Mr Cuthbert Masukume recently made the call saying agricultural insurance was an important tool in climate risk management that can ensure smallholder ...

22 April 2024: Land Reform – In the pursuit of sustainable land reform, capacity building and good governance practices for Communal Property Associations (CPAs) cannot be overstated. As communities continue to grapple with the complexities of land ownership and utilisation, training and empowering CPA members are key to promoting sustainable use of restored land as ...

(Business in Cameroon) – The fourth edition of the Cameroon Investment Forum (CIF), organized by the Investment Promotion Agency (API), kicked off on April 17 in Douala, the country’s economic capital. This year’s focus is on import-substitution policies in sectors such as rice, maize, fish, milk, and palm oil. Launched officially in 2021, the import ...

26 March 2024: Land Reform – The 64th commemoration of Human Rights Day on 21 March 2024 serves as a stark reminder of the brutality of the apartheid regime and the urgency to address the legacy of landlessness that was precipitated by state-orchestrated land dispossession which created racially skewed ownership patterns that have excluded the ...

Land Reform – Johannesburg; Declining budgetary allocations for land reform continue to hamper the state’s ability to effectively drive a successful land reform programme, leaving many land-dependent communities entrenched in poverty and frustration. The adoption, in 1996, of the Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy (PLAS) by the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) ...