Au Cameroun, beaucoup de communautés rurales ne connaissent pas leurs droits, dans un contexte où elles sont de plus en plus confrontées à des investissements fonciers à grande échelle. Sandrine Kouba du RELUFA explique comment la mise en place d'un programme radio a permis d'informer les communautés autochtones sur leurs droits et de les préparer à mieux se défendre face aux investisseurs.

Ce reportage de Land Portal s'intéresse à l'augmentation de la production de maïs en Thaïlande et dans les environs, et à sa relation avec la chaîne de valeur de la volaille en tant qu'ingrédient de l'alimentation animale. 

Cette histoire de données du Land Portal explore l'histoire de la double dépossession en Afrique du Sud, depuis l'époque coloniale et l'apartheid jusqu'à l'époque contemporaine, en raison des investissements miniers.

Blog written by AYJAZ WANI for Observer Research Foundation

Originally posted at https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/kazakhstan-on-the-brink/

Main photo: Getty

BY NOFALIA NURFITRIANI AND APRILIA AMBARWATI

Original source: https://indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au/does-indonesia-really-need-a-land-bank/

WHY REJECT CUSTOMARY LAND PRIVATISATION 

Most of the world’s land is still stewarded by communities under customary systems. Billions of people rely on communally managed farmland, pasture, forests and savannahs for their livelihoods. 

This collective management of resources is viewed in the colonial or capitalist economic model as an obstacle to individual wealth creation and private profit. 

The main objective of the LAND-at-scale program is to directly strengthen essential land governance components for men, women and youth that have the potential to contribute to structural, just, sustainable and inclusive change at scale. An ambitious objective, that cannot be achieved in isolation. Alignment is, therefore, a key factor in all LAND-at-scale activities - be it at project level for our country interventions or through our collaborative approach to knowledge management.

Summaries and selected replays from the 3rd Mekong Regional Land Forum are available below. Full replays of the plenary sessions will be posted shortly -- check back soon!

Originally published at: https://apparelinsider.com/land-grabs-the-new-red-flag-for-uzbek-cotton-...

Written by Lynn Schweisfurth

The debate about compensation of former white farmers in Zimbabwe continues to rage. The compensation agreement signed in July agreed a total amount of US$3.5 billion to pay for ‘improvements’ to the land that was expropriated. After 20 years of discussion, this was a major step forward. However, there seem to be multiple positions on the agreement and little consensus, along with much misunderstanding. However, some things are happening, and a joint resource mobilisation committee has been established with technical support from the World Bank and others.