April 14
Kenya: Civil Society Launch a Campaign Against Extractive Industry Exploitation and Land Grabs
Over 800 households in Ikolomani Constituency in Kakamega County, Western Kenya, fear eviction to pave the way for a British firm, Shanta Gold Limited, to begin extracting gold… Read more »
April 07
Tanzania: Cambodia Unveils Statue Honouring Tanzanian-Born Bomb-Sniffing Rat Magawa
At Mazimbu village, not far from Tanzania's Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Stephano Jaka still remembers the night he trapped and killed a rat that had been feasting on… Read more »
November 19, 2025
Africa: Civil Society Warns of New Land Grabs As World Bank Pushes for Tenure Reforms in Africa
The idea of land abundance is a colonial fiction that refuses to die. Our research shows that Africa's lands are already intensively used and deeply valued by millions of rural… Read more »
August 13, 2025
Africa: Bending the Curve - Overhaul Global Food Systems to Avert Worsening Land Crisis
Current rates of land degradation pose a major environmental and socioeconomic threat, driving climate change, biodiversity loss, and social crises. Food production to feed more… Read more »
August 23, 2012
Congo-Kinshasa: Getting a Grip On Food Security in DR Congo
The Association for Integrated Rural Development is one of a number of rural organisations on the periphery of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which are… Read more »
