The Land Governance course challenges forest and nature management professionals to adopt an integrative perspective, to look beyond the forest, and build bridges between the public and the private sector. It focuses on the development of institutional development at landscape level including
By: Roseanna Cunningham
Date: January 4th 2017
Source: Scottish Housing News
Overall funding for land reform will be increased by £3.4 million in 2017, with the existing Scottish Land Fund budget maintained at £10m, the Scottish Government has announced.
By: Devex Editor
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Devex.com
This week in Washington, D.C., the World Bank is hosting its Annual Conference on Land and Poverty, a professional meeting that has swelled considerably in the past five years. Attendee numbers have expanded to a downright packed 1,200
Democratic Republic of Congo to disclose large-scale agricultural contracts
In partnership with the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, documents will be available via a new online repository
By: TA Ameerudheen
Date: April 6th 2016
Source: Scroll in
Advasis, one of the most marginalised communities in the state, feel successive governments have failed to keep their promises on the redistribution of land.
Date: November 11th 2016
Source: The Economist Namibia
Resettled farmers cannot access the loan facility fund offered by Government and Agribank as part of land reform attempts by the Ministry of Land Reform.
Source: Land Use Policy Journal
Written by:Dereje Teklemariama, Hossein Azadi, Jan Nyssena, Mitiku Haile, Frank Witloxa
By: Lizabeth Paulat
Date: April 27th 2016
Source: Voice of America News
KAMPALA, UGANDA—Uganda has just finalized a deal to build a pipeline to Tanzania’s Tanga port, a deal that brings the country a step closer to exploiting its vast oil reserves. But gaps in land governance law could stand in
Date: November 14th 2016
Source: Africa News Agency
GABORONE – The Namibian government has tabled a new land ownership bill that seeks to bar foreigners from owning agricultural, commercial and communal lands.
KPMG has launched a Challenge Fund on the behalf of the UK Department for International Development (DFID), which supports the development and testing of innovative approaches and partnerships for strengthening land governance, with a specific focus on piloting approaches to responsible land-
Lorenzo Cotula, Giedre Jokubauskaite
The recent wave of land deals for agribusiness investments has highlighted the widespread demand for greater accountability in the governance of land and investment. Legal frameworks influence opportunities for accountability, and recourse to law has featured
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