News on Land

By: Heba Hashem
Date: March 2nd 2016
Source: PV Insider

By: Kizito Makoye Shigela

Date: 19 December 2016

Source: Eurasia Review

Tanzania has adopted a new national land policy which, among others, lowers the ceiling under which foreign investors can lease land from the current 99 to 33 years.

By: Janet Shoko

Date: March 9th 2016

Source: The Africa Report

Zimbabwe has set up a fund to compensate white commercial farmers who were dispossessed of their land during an often violent land reform programme that began in 2000.

By: Ming Tian
Date: March 16th 2016
Source: CCTV

How can China deal with this real estate glut - that 720 million square meters of unsold housing? Political advisors say urbanization may be the way. 

Real estate developers are feeling the heat, especially in less developed areas of China.

Large numbers of new apartment buildings stand empty. What used to be an asset has now become a liability.

By: Luyolo Mkentane

Date: March 24th 2016

Source: IOL.co.za

Johannesburg - Mining conglomerates have been criticised as being among issues threatening South Africa’s food security as prime agricultural land was being taken over for the sole preserve of coal mining.

Agriculture industry role-players said the scourge was rife in the farming provinces of Mpumalanga and Limpopo, and have asked the government to intervene.

By: TNN

Date: April 5th 2016

Source: ET Reality / Economic Times India

Government policies significantly cause supply problems increasing housing costs

By: John Vidal

Date: April 18th 2016

Source: The Guardian

Edward Loure wins leading environmental award after helping communities in Tanzanian Rift Valley secure legal title to ancestral land