By: Ed Stoddard

Date: February 23rd 2016

Source: Reuters

South Africa's main house of parliament took a first step on Tuesday toward enabling the state to make compulsory purchases of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership.

Date: February 24th 2016

Source: Sri Lanka Guardian

Farmers, adivasis and landless rural workers to assemble at Jantar Mantar

By: Sean Mowbray

Date: February 23rd 2016

Source: Mongabay

A ten-part video series, called Territories of Life, tells the stories of indigenous groups who have challenged development on their land. It covers a range of issues, from the tactics developers use to acquire land to case studies of successful resistance.

By: Mike Cohen and Eric Ombok
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: Business Day Live

JOSEPHINE Mbinya bends from the waist to pluck beans from the black soil on her smallholding south of Nairobi. She throws them in a heap on the side of the field.

By: Elaine Zuckerman

Date: February 23rd 2016

Source: The Guardian

Our study found life for women was worse, not better, after World Bank pipeline projects. A robust gender policy is vital

By News24Wire

Date: February 23rd 2016

Source: Business Tech

Changes in property ownership in South Africa have been nothing short of dramatic in the last two decades and is one of the biggest success stories, but is never brought to the fore, economist Mike Schussler told Fin24.

By: Faraz Haleem
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: China Business News

Date: February 21st 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / The Citizen

EDITORIAL

Land disputes involving farmers, pastoralists and investors have been plaguing Tanzania for years.

Cases are numerous in land tribunals and even the High Court. So serious are such misunderstandings that people have been killed or injured, livestock wounded, homes set alight, farms destroyed and hostilities lingered.

By: Aaron Maasho
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: Mail Online / Reuters

ADDIS ABABA, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Ethiopia continues to crack down on demonstrators in its vast Oromiya region some four months after protests began over plans to develop an economic zone on what is now farmland around the capital, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.

By: Fernando Casado, Marie-Alexandra Kurth & Lisa Reudenbach

Date: February 22nd 2016

Source: Citiscope