Follow AllAfrica News: Land and Rural Issues, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/all-africa-news-land Tue, 21 Sep 2021 22:43:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXNfW30xa1UCiq7VFky8BpXO [Daily Maverick] Talk about a bad signal to send to foreign investors. The Fraser Institute's recently released annual economic freedom report includes an entire chapter titled 'The Dangers of South Africa's Proposed Policy of Confiscating Property'.]]> Tue, 21 Sep 2021 18:04:39 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXNfW30xa1UCiq7VFky8BpXO https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXNAq-hTGbb11qgHTd9OkkKt [Daily Maverick] The statement that 'before the Expropriation Bill can be passed, the Constitution needs to be amended', as expressed in a recent Daily Maverick Opinionista, is not correct. The processes running concurrently are typically confusing and are frequently confused. However, it is important to look at them separately.]]> Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:40:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXNAq-hTGbb11qgHTd9OkkKt https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXNAq-hTGbb11qJCIqJppjfU [Daily Maverick] Jaki Seroke's memoir traces his life as an anti-apartheid activist, his time on Robben Island and how this affected his family life.]]> Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:35:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXNAq-hTGbb11qJCIqJppjfU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXM4uMHwfg4WICuZukmJ4mr4 [Daily Maverick] The spatial inequality imposed by colonialism and apartheid is still a defining characteristic of many poor and working-class people's everyday lives - and a key contemporary driver of this inequality is the state's ongoing failure to rectify the skewed patterns of access to land.]]> Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:21:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXM4uMHwfg4WICuZukmJ4mr4 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXOzh4-A_PGmg1e5jCclomp- [Monitor] Residents on the disputed land at Katanga near Wandegeya, Kampala, have appealed to authorities to protect them from threats of eviction by Makerere University, saying the move is illegal.]]> Tue, 21 Sep 2021 11:16:22 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXOzh4-A_PGmg1e5jCclomp- https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPC1KwsBnLd5t3hDS9njgCr [Daily News] Land use conflicts between pastoralists and farmers in Tanzania have existed for many years and the causes and effects of these conflicts have varied from one place to another.]]> Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:39:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPC1KwsBnLd5t3hDS9njgCr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPHZH0pRP8XNnKSkciKEY1s [Premium Times] Mr Sanwo-Olu signed the legislation into law, 11 days after it was unanimously passed by the State House of Assembly.]]> Tue, 21 Sep 2021 06:56:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPHZH0pRP8XNnKSkciKEY1s https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPHZH0pRP8XNmhamfNIiY2W [This Day] Eleven days after the State House of Assembly passed the bill, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has assented to the bill prohibiting Open Cattle Grazing and Trespass of Cattle on Land.]]> Tue, 21 Sep 2021 06:46:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPHZH0pRP8XNmhamfNIiY2W https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPHZH0pRP8XNkGT5aWO9DEx [Vanguard] Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday, signed into law the Prohibition of Open Cattle Grazing Bill, 2021.]]> Tue, 21 Sep 2021 06:38:10 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPHZH0pRP8XNkGT5aWO9DEx https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPxd18qtnBwHIMOI2eu70Rg [Daily Maverick] Selling off state land while thousands remain without a secure place to live is a gross injustice. South African cities need more shelters to accommodate the homeless. We need a variety of shelter types and more social support systems to help those with addiction and mental health challenges so that we can reintegrate people into their communities.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:41:58 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPxd18qtnBwHIMOI2eu70Rg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXMiGPEuvSO8Xu4sICfMfkNm [Nation] The vast Laikipia plains stretch from the slopes of Mt Kenya to the borders of the Rift Valley, where tourism merges heart-warming hospitality with stunning scenery, scintillating skies and wonderful wildlife.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:02:39 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXMiGPEuvSO8Xu4sICfMfkNm https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXNWkh8qfee4LFT72x6uxjiK [FrontPageAfrica] Tappita District -- This disarmingly peaceful forest area in Liberia's far north Tappita District has been the scene of conflict of one form or another for decades. But since 2014 it had enjoyed some peace as two clans here, supported by a US-backed project known by the acronym PROSPER, agreed on a boundary line between them.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 13:01:11 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXNWkh8qfee4LFT72x6uxjiK https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXNebfCR498uC1hGNgNo2_0q [Vanguard] A cross-section of Akwa Ibom people has hailed Governor Udom Emmanuel following the signing into law of the open grazing prohibition bill passed by the State House of Assembly.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 12:23:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXNebfCR498uC1hGNgNo2_0q https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPUbWJ7Dw-byC3FFO_xyF25 [New Zimbabwe] PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has directed that over 300 workers in the health sector should be allocated agricultural land.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:31:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPUbWJ7Dw-byC3FFO_xyF25 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPUbWJ7Dw-byHCrAHWlao0B [263Chat] Opposition leader, Herbert Chamuka says the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement has not yielded positive results for the ordinary people of Zimbabwe but has worsened their lives due to increased poverty and undemocratic rule by the Zanu-PF government.]]> Mon, 20 Sep 2021 10:31:14 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPUbWJ7Dw-byHCrAHWlao0B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXMe83hAJ_MQEQp41t9tiERU [Nation] On April 12, 1980 celebrated writer and conservationist Kuki Gallmann placed a tiny acknowledgement in the classified section of this paper following the death of her tycoon husband, Paolo Gallmann.]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 12:19:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXMe83hAJ_MQEQp41t9tiERU https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXMe83hAJ_MQEQBC78OgjhDM [Ethiopian Herald] Recently CIFOR, water and land resource centre, Ethio Natural Resource Organization, and PHE Ethiopia Consortium had organized a consultative meeting on challenges and opportunities on conservation of renewable natural resources. As mentioned in the meeting Ethiopia could not sustainably apply its policies, strategies and the international conventions that it signed because of the absence of integrated policy and plan natural for resource utilization, recurrent restructuring of institutions that are dedica]]> Sun, 19 Sep 2021 12:10:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXMe83hAJ_MQEQBC78OgjhDM https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXOP3ul6KMfYxXCrAHWlao0B [FAO] Rome -- UN Rome-based Agencies - FAO, IFAD and WFP - celebrate International Day for South-South Cooperation]]> Sat, 18 Sep 2021 14:12:34 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXOP3ul6KMfYxXCrAHWlao0B https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPgAxKA1yUuS5NaYRWadcX6 [Daily Maverick] Residents of Elliotdale in the Mbhashe Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape are outraged about a council resolution that will see municipal-owned land in the area being sold to councillors and officials only.]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:57:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPgAxKA1yUuS5NaYRWadcX6 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPgAxKA1yUuS4vmyuk5fxzE [SciDev.Net] Nairobi -- Increasing agricultural productivity on existing farmland could ensure sustainable and resilient food systems in Africa and boost biodiversity through preservation of forest and grassland ecosystems, a report says.]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2021 15:47:16 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/haf0uoC5YXPgAxKA1yUuS4vmyuk5fxzE