
Herder-farmer conflict in the Sahel needs a new description: why ‘eco-violence’ fits
13 July 2022
The conflicts between herders and farmers over water and grazing opportunities have been going on for decades.

“Scaling up Land Governance for Food Security in Burkina Faso”: Introducing a new LAND-at-scale project
25 January 2022
Nitidae, l’Observatoire National du Foncier Burkina Faso (ONF-BF), Oxfam Burkina Faso and the Netherlands Enterprise & Development Agency (RVO) are excited to announce their partnership for a LAND-at-scale project in Burkina Faso. Starting this year, the project will run for three years focusing on…

Gold Mining in Burkina Faso Becomes Increasingly Dangerous
9 November 2021
BOUSSÉ — Terror attacks on gold mining operations in Burkina Faso are becoming a regular occurrence. For VOA, reporter Henry Wilkins looks at the impact the attacks are having on the lives of survivors and what it could mean if extracting gold, the country's primary source of income, becomes too…
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Learning from and scaling up tenure security approaches in Burkina Faso
15 July 2022
Burkina Faso has a long history of land interventions aiming to achieve tenure security at the local level. The “Observatoire National du Foncier au Burkina-Faso” (ONF-BF) is one of the key players in the country working on mapping land rights within communities at commune-level. How does ONF-BF…

Webinar: An introduction to Prindex, 28 November
Around the world, insecure property rights prevent families from feeling confident about the future, businesses from investing, and communities from becoming more productive. Hundreds of millions of us lack property security. This makes the world poorer, less free, and less just. There is a growing…