Growing concern over access to food is also creating a new geopolitics around food security, with many countries buying up farmland and banning the export of food, experts say. Read more »
The port of Pointe-Noire has evicted 8,000 residents of a fishing village to make way for expansion. The move is a blow to livelihoods, and takes away a source of affordable ... Read more »
Zimbabwe's main farmers' union has slammed the renewed onslaught of attacks and illegal land seizures across the country. Read more »
Police and the city's anti-land invasion unit clashed with Hangberg residents after their shacks on a firebreak on the slopes of the Sentinel were dismantled. Read more »
Despite the critical role women play in subsistence agriculture, African customary laws still prevent them from owning land. Read more »
A Botswana judge has prohibited the Basarwa people of the Kalahari from re-equipping a borehole or drilling a new one in the Central Kgalagadi Game Reserve - the latest incident in ... Read more »
South Africa is under pressure to act after the arrests of two South African farmers in Zimbabwe, in violation of a bilateral investment agreement. Read more »
Prize-Winning environmentalist and public attorney Thuli Makama talks to allAfrica.com about her work in addressing land issues and NGO rights in Swaziland. Read more »
An effort to claim Sh283 million worth of cemetery land is the latest in the spate of corruption scandals to deepen political divisions in the country. Read more »
A South African court has allowed dispossessed farmers in Zimbabwe to submit claims for their losses in South African courts and seize property owned by the Zimbabwean government ... Read more »
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