Study Helps Communities Resolve Land Conflicts
A new report details a cost-effective process to assist communities in creating partnerships that increase control of their land. The report documents communities in Liberia, Mozambique and Uganda who were able to leverage laws to protect family and communal resources from "land grabs".
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Africa:
Study Offers Process to Protect Land Rights
Burness Communications, 27 June 2012
A new report released today by Namati and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) details an effective and cost-efficient process to help rural communities work… Read more »
Mozambican communities planting boundary trees to mark agreed borders.
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Liberia:
The Plantation Blues
allAfrica, 29 February 2012
Fiercely contested during different stages of Liberia's civil war, the western region of Grand Cape Mount County now plays host to a very different kind of confrontation. Read more »
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Liberia:
Land Grab or Development Opportunity?
UNIRIN, 17 February 2012
Hundreds of villagers and town residents of Liberia's Grand Cape Mount Country have attracted nationwide attention in their bid to recover what they say is land seized from them… Read more »
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Africa:
Palm Oil Fuels Land Grabs in Africa
Fahamu, 15 September 2011
By next year 'palm oil is forecast to be the world's most produced and internationally traded edible oil.' But as foreign investors descend on Africa to develop large-scale palm… Read more »