Sharm el-Sheikh — While global activism on the climate crisis has gained momentum, the people who are on the frontlines of these struggles – environmental human rights defenders – face the gravest risks to protect their homes and communities. Indigenous leaders, activists, journalists, human rights and environmental defenders who speak up to protect the rights of […]
Tag: Land and Rural Issues
The naval officer also ignores an ongoing court case and deploys soldiers to assault civilians on disputed land. On 11 August, Alabi Olujide received a distress call that some military personnel had invaded his farm field in the Igboku area of Epe, Lagos State. Disturbed, he rushed down to the farm to realise that what […]
Sharm el-Sheikh — The fallout of a changing climate is indisputable as it is already disrupting the livelihoods of millions of people in Africa, especially the poorest and most vulnerable. It’s very, very clear now that the fallout of a changing climate is hitting people on the front lines, marginalised people the hardest, according Megan Rowling, […]
Buchanan — For the third time, ForumCiv Liberia hosted the Rural Women Land Rights Conference. The conference resulted in commitments from participating organizations and some of the stakeholders. The 3rd Rural Women Land Rights Conference brought together over seventy participants. It was held in Buchanan Grand. In 2018, Liberia signed a new land law which […]
It is up to Parliament to develop more comprehensive SLAPP suit defence, says court The Constitutional Court has found that six South Africans being collectively sued for R14.25-million in a defamation case brought by Australian mining interests have achieved “substantial” success in their argument for being able to bring a “SLAPP” defence if and when […]
MEC Bredell to consider new Environmental Impact Assessment and public comments this week for Philippi Horticultural Area Members of the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA) Food and Farming Campaign believe the urban development of land in the community could potentially destroy farming on the land and dry up the Cape Flats Aquifer and food security. The […]
Nairobi — When Mara Siana Conservancy came into operation in 2016, there was a single zebra and a topi (antelope) in the valley just outside the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. The valley was also host to fewer than 150 elephants and 200 buffalos. The elephant population is now well over 300 individuals, and […]
Farmers, civil society and faith leaders of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa recognise the double rebranding of the Green Revolution as an admission of failure, a cynical distraction, and reject the new strategy offered by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA). The double rebrand sees the name of the African […]
The Land Bank, in partnership with the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD), has relaunched the Blended Finance Scheme to assist historically disadvantaged farmers. Blended Finance is a facility that uses grants to complement loans provided by financial institutions. It was developed to improve access to and the affordability of finance for […]
The Samburu people in northern Kenya’s Marsabit county are pastoralists. They migrate from place to place in search of pasture and water for their cattle, goats, sheep and camels. As part of their lifestyle, Samburu boys go through an initiation period when they live in rock shelters, learning how to take care of their animals […]
Where are the areas on earth with the most biodiversity? The answer might surprise you. It’s places cared for and protected by indigenous peoples. This is because the way of life of native groups are intertwined with the rhythms and flow of their surroundings as their source of sustenance. Despite having been removed from most […]
Accra — Policymakers must develop and implement legislation and forest conservation programmes to halt the loss of tropical forests from industrial mining, environmental experts urge. The call follows a study showing that industrial mining in four countries — Indonesia, Brazil, Ghana and Suriname — contributed 80 per cent of the tropical forest loss in 26 […]
There is widespread agreement that land reform in South Africa has failed to deliver the changes many hoped it would. Racially based dislocation and land dispossession were central features of colonial conquest and apartheid rule. To redress this, in 1994, the newly elected African National Congress (ANC) set a target of redistributing 30% of the […]
Politician-cum-lawyer, Tendai Biti has implicated controversial businessman Ken Sharpe in what he said was the greatest land heist in the history of post- independent Zimbabwe. Sharpe owns Augur Investments which entered into two shady land deals with the Harare City Council, thereby prejudicing the capital of vast tracts of land. Biti, who was testifying at […]
Government is considering various options regarding the contentious matter of land under traditional leadership and part of the land tenure system including Ingonyama Trust, said Deputy President David Mabuza. “These would be finalised by Cabinet, and will be considered alongside the resolutions of the Communal Land Summit which was held in May this year,” the […]
On Tuesday, 11 October 2022, the Court of Appeal of Botswana will hear an appeal brought by the Attorney General, the Registrar of Deeds, and the Malete Land Board (Appellants) challenging the judgment of a full bench of the High Court delivered on 21 March 2022. The High Court ruled that the Ba-Ga-Malete Tribe were […]
Cape Town — Health Minister Confirms Major Hospitals Exempt From Load Shedding Health Minister Joe Phaahla says major hospitals in the country have been exempted from power cuts. The minister gave an update on the extent that the power cuts were affecting the public sector’s healthcare services. The minister will also present government’s interventions […]
“Most of the time, we only had school once a week” In the rural Eastern Cape school dropout rates are extremely high. Primary school teaching is also often of a haphazard quality and there is a lack of focus on early childhood development. In the space of 20 years, one organisation has established four pre-schools, […]