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Slum violence inspires Kenyans to tackle huge housing shortage
By: Katy Migiro
Date: 29 December 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Recently married with a one-year-old child, Joan Moraa Mbogo dreams of escaping Kenya's noisy, dirty, crime-ridden capital and buying a home close to her mother's newly-built apartment overlooking the Lukenya Hills.
Sharing The Economic Benefits Of Urban Agriculture
By: Judoemue Kollie
Date: 11 January 2017
Source: Daily Observer
An increasing number of residents in Monrovia and its suburbs are involved in urban farming for income generation and food security.
Urban and peri-urban farming is the growing of crops and raising of animals within and around cities. It also involves the production of inputs, processing, marketing, and the provision of services to agricultural producers and agro-entrepreneurs.
Landesa’s Annual Report Released – 2.2 Million Lives Impacted
More than 2.2 million lives changed – 50,000 of those in a single week. Learn more about Landesa’s impact over the past year, from India and China to Rwanda, in Landesa’s new annual report.
View the online annual report
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Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility. Call for proposals.
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is inviting indigenous peoples’ organizations and communities, and organizations that work with them, to apply for grants that fund projects and partnerships to promote the development of indigenous peoples and their unique cultural identity.
Grants ranging from US$20,000 to US$50,000 will be awarded to applicants from IFAD’s developing Member States through the Indigenous Peoples Assistance Facility (IPAF).
How Egyptian farmers are adapting to water scarcity up and down a canal
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 alongside leafy greens. Twirling grape vines back on to rows of cucumbers. But why have the farmers chosen to grow one crop rather than another? Is it simply because they have differing access to water? A new study undertaken by IWMI and partners* sought to better understand the reasons for crop choice, and has come up with some surprising conclusions.
LEGEND first land policy bulletin now out
The DFID is delighted to launch the first Land Policy Bulletin, which introduces a new land and responsible investment programme - Land: Enhancing Governance for Economic Development (LEGEND).
The Land Policy Bulletin is available for download here.