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".

Mozambican communities planting boundary trees to mark agreed borders.

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

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