The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …
Zimbabwe urgently needs a new system of land administration to harness development in the agricultural sector. The country’s land use and ownership have been significantly reconfigured by the fast-track land reform programme undertaken during Robert Mugabe’s rule. Today, following the land reform of the 2000s, Zimbabwe has an agrarian structure …
This paper explores the benefits of a coordinated approach to land and water governance in efforts to address the global food security challenge and the need to tackle gender inequality in access to and control over land and water. The scarcity of arable land and freshwater is at the centre …
This report discusses the critical role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the context of emerging climate and development priorities, and the unprecedented opportunity to scale up the recognition and protection of community land and resource rights—both for the benefit of rural peoples and for the realization of global …
Hoedspruit - It was a hard-fought victory for South Africa's black community seeking to reclaim land, and for the Moletele ethnic group it has become a surprising model of wider racial cooperation. After a 10-year legal battle, the Moletele have taken back the land from which they were evicted by …
FREETOWN - The World Bank Country Director for Sierra Leone, Parminder Brar Wednesday pledged 10 million U.S. dollars to support the implementation of the new land policy project in Sierra Leone. Brar made the above disclosure at the commencement of a two-day National Land Conference organized at the Miatta Conference …
Monrovia – The Civil Society Working Group on Land Reform has intensified engagements with stakeholders aimed at ensuring the speedy passage of the draft land right act at the National Legislature. CSO is civil society organization. The group is a coalition of CSOs working on community land rights in Liberia, …
Agriculture remains an important source of livelihood for the majority of Africans but the sector is still very unproductive, resulting in food insecurity and large imports of staple foods, putting additional strain on scarce foreign exchange reserves. Acknowledging the rapid uptake of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Africa and …
South Africa's parliament on Thursday approved a bill allowing state expropriations of land to redress racial disparities in land ownership, an emotive issue two decades after the end of apartheid. Most of South Africa's land remains in white hands and many commercial and small-scale farmers are currently facing tough times …
- Manipur district under curfew Imphal: Seven persons have been killed in Churachandpur district since last night while protesting against amendment to the Manipur land law, prompting the administration to impose curfew till 5am tomorrow. While three protesters died in police firing today, four died during last night's arson and …
KOLKATA: The state land and land reforms department has issued guidelines for regularization and operation of all existing and new brick kilns in the state to prevent illegal operation of brick kilns in agriculture land. The authorities have come up with regulatory, location and operational guidelines for all brick kiln …
May 14 Mexico's government is drawing up a land reform to strengthen the rights of private companies dealing with rural landholders in a bid to lure investment and lift the economy, according to two people familiar with the plan. The legislation being drafted will draw on an energy reform completed …
Himachal Pradesh has the reputation of being stable, inclusive, cohesive and well-governed and it stands apart in many respects from its neighbors in northern India. It has additionally, achieved remarkable growth, especially in the last two decades, which has been accompanied by very good human development outcomes. Despite being a …
2015 is the International Year of Soils. This Soil Atlas shows what can succeed and why the soil should concern us all. The report, co-published with Heinrich Böll Stiftung, the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam and Le Monde Diplomatique, draws on facts and figures on the significance …
Widening the ambit of exemption, the West Bengal government passed the Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 2014 relaxing the cap on private land holding. The time period for which a piece of land can be locked before a project is started has also been extended. Many feel the amendment would boost …
Delhi’s ponds could soon get a new lease of life — in the form of pisciculture. The Delhi government has identified 24 water bodies for fish breeding and rearing. A senior government official said the move is aimed at creating livelihood for people living in villages and overcoming the problem …
An Act to conserve the paddy land and wetland and to restrict the conversion or reclamation thereof in order to promote growth in the agricultural sector in the state of Manipur.
This will entitle cultivators to higher MSP for their crops Punjab is all set to amend two major land reforms Acts so as to link rent on the leased-out farmland to the prevailing market rates. The amendments to the Acts are expected to be finalised by the Revenue Department by …
In an effort to take back the unutilised land from the industrial houses, real estate developers, educational institutions, places of worship, the state government is proposing an amendment to Section 109 of the Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961. Minister for Revenue V Srinivas Prasad today tabled the Karnataka Land Reforms …
The government needs to frame a policy on issuing no-objection certificates to plantations exceeding a specific area, the forest department committee that probed the Nelliampathy estate row has recommended. The report of the committee, led by principal chief conservator of forests V Gopinath, was tabled by minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan in …
