Land issues
Governance of land ownership and tenure in different contexts; land grabs and their impact on food production and the livelihoods and economic opportunities of poor people.
Latest Documents
- Agrarian Labour Relations in Zimbabwe after Over a Decade of Land and Agrarian Reform
- Chambati, W. / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2013
- Walter Chambati April 2013 This paper begins highlights some key features that shape agrarian labour relations in Zimbabwe, illustrated through the setting of Goromonzi district. The new agrarian structure that forms the b...
- Understanding Wage Issues in the Tea Industry
- Oxfam, 2013
- Wage levels are an issue of concern across the globe as individuals, companies and governments wrestle with how wages paid to workers relate to costs of living, corporate and national competitiveness, profitability and broader macroec...
- Land grabs and fragile food systems: The role of globalization
- S. Murphy / Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2013
- IATP have consistently argued that trade agreements need to respect and promote human rights, not drive a process of globalisation that privileges commercial interests and pushes public interests aside. This paper concludes that the g...
- Land ceilings: reining in land grabbers or dumbing down the debate?
- GRAIN, 2013
- Governments in a number of countries are trying to address concerns about land grabbing by closing their borders to foreign investors. Are these restrictions effective? Not really, says GRAIN. They give the impression that some...
- The Green Belt Initiative and Land Grabs in Malawi
- Chinsinga, B / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2012
- FAC Policy Brief 55 by Blessings Chinsinga and Michael Chasukwa There is often a mismatch between the apparent benevolent intents and the practical manifestations of the large scale land deals. The empirical realities of t...
- Land Grabbing in Africa and the New Politics of Food
- R. Hall / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2011
- Policy Brief 41 by Ruth Hall 'Africa is for sale’ is how some characterise it: there is a ‘land grab’ underway. Others are more cautious, speaking of ‘large-scale land acquisitions’, while the Wo...
- Land, Land Policy and Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia
- S. Gebreselassie / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2009
- By Samuel Gebreselassie Land is a public property in Ethiopia. It has been administered by the government since the 1975 radical land reform. The reform brought to an end the exploitative type of relationship that existed betwe...
- Land, Land Policy and Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia
- S. Gebreselassie / Future Agricultures Consortium, 2006
- By Samuel Gebreselassie Land and land tenure is a hot policy issue in Ethiopia. Three key issues are raised – farm size and fragmentation and the question of what is a ‘viable’ farm unit; tenure security and whe...
- The benefits and challenges of agricultural land investment in Tanzania and Mozambique
- H. Theting; B. Brekke / Development Fund, Norway, 2010
- This report discusses the potential benefits of, and the current challenges for, agricultural land investment in Tanzania and Mozambique. The paper finds that there is little, if any, development potential in these investments. Indeed...
- Land grab or land investment: lessons from Africa
- Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2009
- Foreign acquisitions of farm land in developing countries have become the focus of concern. Many observers consider them a new form of colonialism that threatens food security of the poor. However, investments could be good news if th...
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