By: Paola Totaro

Date: March 15th 2016

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation

WASHINGTON, March 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Uganda's constitution of 1995 is known worldwide for pioneering and gender-sensitive provisions to protect women and their rights.

However the reality on the ground, even two decades later, is an entirely different story, according to a report presented on Tuesday at a World Bank Conference on Land Rights and Poverty.

By PETER NGILA and JOHN MUCHANGI

Date: March 14th 2016

Source: The Star

Are the land bills being discussed in Parliament going to stop forced resettlement, grabbing and other land-related injustices?

By: Brian Whittaker

Date: March 15th 2016

Source: Business Day Live

WHAT is the courageous conversation we are not yet having with the unknown future — the world that lies over the horizon, but has not yet been fully articulated? The poet, David Whyte, wants to know.

By: Anthea Jeffrey
Date: March 11th 2016
Source: Rand Daily Mail

In pushing ahead with the bill, the ANC is determined not to allow black farmers to obtain ownership of land acquired for redistribution

In recent weeks, President Jacob Zuma and other ANC leaders have repeatedly identified rural "land hunger" as the major cause of poverty, inequality and unemployment.

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: Hazel Ndebele

Date: March 4th 2016

Source: Zimbabwe Independent

GOVERNMENT’S trampling on property rights and Zimbabwe’s viability as a suitable investment destination has been brought sharply into focus by last week’s abrupt shutting down of diamond mining operations of nine companies in Chiadzwa by the Mines minister Walter Chidhakwa over disputes on his corporate consolidation process.

By: Niranjani Roland and Asanka Fernando

Date: March 3rd 2016

Source: UCA News

Property rights should be included in the island nation's constitution, activists say

Punchirala Somasiri feels helpless whenever his oldest child asks for extra money to buy things for school. Most of the time he has to borrow money from a friend to give to his child.

By: Richard Hudson
Date: March 2nd 2016
Source: ABC Australia

Advertising mogul Harold Mitchell is fully supporting the Western Australian Government's introduction of multi-use leases for rangelands making up about 87 per cent of the state.

By: Stuart Lowman

Date: March 1st 2016

Source: Biznews.com

By: Brad Thompson

Date: February 29th 2016

Source: The West Australian

Advertising guru Harold Mitchell has hailed changes to WA’s land use laws as a key to unlocking the value and productivity in pastoral leases covering 87 million hectares of the State.

By: SABC
Date: February 24th 2016
Source: SABC News

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

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.