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Reports & Research
June, 2017
Zimbabwe, Africa
Land reform has generated a range of disputes including overlapping boundaries, double occupations, competing authorities etc. Lists areas in which potential disputes arise.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchOctober, 2017Africa
Fresh clashes over land in a cocoa plantation in Cavally Region in the west left 7 dead and 5,000 fleeing their homes. An increasing polarisation of ethnic identity. At least 100 cases of land occupations since 2013.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchNovember, 2017Africa
Some commercial farmers in Serenje District, Central Province of Zambia, have acquired thousands of hectares while ignoring laws meant to prevent forced evictions. Some have used bulldozers to forcibly evict residents whose families have farmed the land for generations. This has been devastating for the communities and particularly hard on women.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2017Africa
From the mid-2000s, a commodity boom underpinned a wave of land use investments in low- and middle-income countries. While agribusiness, mining and petroleum concessions often involve promises of jobs and public revenues, they have also prompted concerns about land dispossession, exclusionary investment models and infringements of the rights of vulnerable groups. One of the major challenges is in empowering rural people to make informed choices, exercise their rights and have their voices heard.
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