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This guide encourages communities to discover what development means for themselves and to question whether proposed plans and activities truly fit within their definition of and priorities for development.
Recognition and respect for tenure rights has long been recognized as an important concern for development, conservation, and natural resource governance.
This guide provides a simple yet complete resource to help communities to understand the Asian Development Bank’s policies and use them for justice.
This article seeks to investigate whether concern for food security and investment liberalization are the principle drivers of land-grabbing in Africa.
Sub-Saharan Africa has always been perceived as a land-abundant continent. Deininger & Byerlee (2011) estimate that the continent has the largest area of potentially available uncultivated land.
In the paper land reform in South African political discourse will be investigated, especially the process of its politicization. How the topic of land reform is used by political forces, especially the ruling party; the African National Congress and current President Jacob Zuma.
This article aims to explore the causes of informal settlements in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM).
In the recent explosion of attention given to the land grabbing phenomenon, contract farming has been identified as a potentially inclusive alternative for smallholders to outright acquisition of farm land by agri-business capital.
Racialised land ownership in former apartheid-governed states of the SADC remains the most divisive subject particularly between Western states and SADC states themselves.