Land policy initiative to validate Dalberg study on implementation of the AU declaration on land
A monitoring and evaluation framework to support the African agenda on land
Inaugural Conference on Land Policy in Africa to be held in Addis Ababa
Study on the proposed establishement of a compensation fund to benefit land-locked country members of the African groundnut council
This report describes an investigative study into the feasibility of establishing compensation fund to benefit Mali and the Nigera both land-locked countries members of the African Groundnut Council, and to assist them in overcoming the cost of transporting groundnuts over the longer distances necessarily involved to ports of shipment. Both countries put high priority on sound agricultural development and all efforts are made to sec increased groundnut production. Groundnut is one of the two most important export commodities of Mali and the Niger.
Good land governance: critical for peaceful and sustainable development
Land tenure problems in east Cameroon
African land tenure problems, just like those of the African family, are exceedingly complex and baffling. With its ethnic diversity, Cameroon is an inextricable tangle of different concepts of title to land. Yet, except in the overpopulated areas and some times in the towns, the tensions stemming from land tenure problems were practically unknown in Cameroon until about thirty years ago. Owing to economic development and particularly the overpopulation of certain sectors, and the development of the towns, the government was forced to intervene in land tenure questions.
Back to office report on African deserts and arid lands committee (ADALCO) Meeting held in Algiers (Algeria) 3-5 december 1990
The project was first conceived as a “Transnational project on the Management of Major Regional Aquifer in N.E. Africa” during the UNCOD held in Nairobi in 1977 and that it had been taken up by ADALCO in 1987. He pointed out that the sandstone aquifer occupying an area of about 2,000,0000 sq. km underlines the common border areas of Sudan, Egypt, Libya and Chad. Environmentally, it was observed that the zone has a relief characterized by a vast sandy plan, which is occasionally interrupted by scattered flat topped Nubaian plateaux and escarpments.
Framework and guidelines on land policy in Africa
The Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa is the result of a three-year road map of activities that involved intense reflection, rigorous consultations and exemplary collaboration across the continent. These activities involved African continental and
regional institutions, governments, prominent African land experts from all regions of