Land is central to human existence. Land is a key asset for livelihood and development globally; there is virtually nothing man does that is not rooted on the land. In other words, all human ...

Marc Wegerif receives research funding from the DSTI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security (CoE-FS). He is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Pretoria and a Principal ...

Global Health Equity Research in Translation brings academic research to broader audiences: decision makers, policy makers, advocacy groups, philanthropists, and journalists. The series draws on ...

Small family farmers waiting for years to obtain documents validating their land claims often need to pay a small bribe to speed up bureaucracy. More flagrant abuses of the land tenure system are ...

DESPITE global progress in strengthening land tenure and governance, more than a billion people worldwide – nearly one in four adults – fear they could lose ...

RMIT University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Ghana’s current system of land administration generates a lot of conflicts for a number of reasons. Firstly, under Ghana’s ...

Mongabay has begun publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. Author Timothy J. Killeen is an ...