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Botswana embarks on land degradation neutrality
The Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources Conservation and Tourism (MENT) through the Department of Forestry and Range Resources (DFRR) has embarked on a project to restore degraded land and soil in order to achieve land degradation neutrality (LDN) in Botswana.
Kratie land disputes ‘resolved’
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction said on Tuesday that it had completed handing out land concessions to 1,382 families in Kampong Damrei commune, in Kratie province’s Chhlong district.
Its statement came as some residents claimed they never received the land.
The ministry said the provincial administration and land division committee had separated families who were entitled to the land into three groups and completed handing it over on June 10.
Land News: Weeks 33-38 2020 South Africa, Southern Central and Eastern Africa
A compilation of land related news curated by knowledgebase.land - a website maintained by Phuhlisani NPC, a land sector NPO in South Africa. KB.L seeks to bring to life all aspects of the 'land issue', recognising that land is both a deeply important aspect of our history which simultaneously shapes the contemporary political landscape. KB.L aspires to be recognised as a trusted site providing a wide range of land related news content and research links in the South Africa and the sub continent.
Unlocking the Land Data Ecosystem in South Africa
New Report delves into the State of Land Information (SOLI) in South Africa
Land governance in South Africa is a significant and complex political issue. The land information landscape reflects diversity of actors involved and extends from sophisticated statistical datasets and satellite imagery to local arguments for restitution based on oral records.
Viana's administration delivers land to about 18000 families
The Viana Administration will deliver plots of land for selfconstruction to some 18,000 families living in areas of risk or in very degraded houses. This measure aims to help rehousing families living in "terrible conditions of habitability".
Think tank decries global push to privatize land
One of the ugliest features of the modern world is the exploitation of natural resources for private gain irrespective of its consequences for the environment and the larger community, especially the poor majority.
Transforming politics and belief
Lesotho and IFAD joint project to improve livelihoods of vulnerable small farmers
A new financing project in Lesotho is to benefit 160, 000 poor rural households. It will boost food security and nutrition, mitigate the impact of climate change and strengthen livelihoods for greater income. Women, who typically have limited access to land and finance, will make up 50 per cent of the project’s participants. About 35 per cent will be young people who face high rates of unemployment.
Rights Groups, others decry inequality in land governance in Nigeria
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth (ERA/FoEN) and other stakeholders have said practice of gender inequality in land governance has increased poverty and deprivation among women in the society.
The Executive Director, ERA/FoEN, Dr. Godwin Ojo, who was represented by a lecturer at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Dr. Ralph Offiong, said this at the weekend, during a validation workshop on review of Land Use Act 1978, yesterday, in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
Angola to have Economic Inspection, Food Security Authority
Luanda, ANGOLA, September 24 - A preliminary draft Presidential Decree that created the National Authority for Economic Inspection and Food Security (ANIESA) was approved Wednesday by the Interministerial Commission for State Reform.,
It is a Public Institute that results from the unification of the sectorial services for inspection and supervision of economic activities in Angola, states a press release from the 2nd Ordinary Meeting of the Commission, chaired by President João Lourenço.
Land division segment in jeopardy due to pandemic
Real estate transactions in Cambodia’s land division projects remain in jeopardy more than nine months on since the onset and spread of Covid-19, experts have said.
The land division segment had experienced an unbridled boom in the years leading up to the outbreak with prices on a steady march upwards, above all in Phnom Penh and surrounding areas, they said.
Land to lose: coronavirus compounds debt crisis in Cambodia
At least 1.76 million jobs in the nation of about 16 million people are at risk due to COVID-19, while the poverty rate could double, to about one-in-four people, the World Bank said in May.
INSIGHT-Land to lose: coronavirus compounds debt crisis in Cambodia
At least 1.76 million jobs in the nation of about 16 million people are at risk due to COVID-19, while the poverty rate could double, to about one-in-four people, the World Bank said in May. Cambodian human rights groups have this year called for a freeze on loan repayments due to the virus and for lenders to return more than one million land titles held as collateral.