June 2-3 2021 Global landscape Forum(GLF) held a digital conference themed: Restoring Africa’s Drylands. Landpages participated in plenary session discussion on Whose land is it anyway? An intergenerational dialogue exploring solutions to land tenure challenges.
Land! One of the most coveted resources globally but more so in the African cultures. In Africa, for instance, access to, use, and control over land are indistinguishably linked to access to other economic and productive resources. Moreover, the value of land in Africa transcends economic and market value. It extends to social, cultural, and …
Land Registration Kenya adopted a National Land Policy in 2009 after over ten years of consultation and debate. It provided a blueprint for a host of land reforms in the country, many enshrined in the 2010 constitution. The Constitution delved on land and environment in chapter five. It provided that the use and management of …
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Lately, I have been thinking a lot along the lines of students’ accommodation. What do you make of such as a parent, guardian or still the student? The above is a snippet of a university’s 2020 admission letter. From here the majority of the students who miss out on the limited slots settle on rental …
It is estimated that by the end of apartheid, about 60000 white settlers controlled 86% of South Africa’s farmland. This is about 82 million hectares.However black south African’s in rural areas constituting of 30% of the population held less than 15% of the farmland.The latter held their land under informal land tenure systems.Moreover, an estimated …
South Africa Population: 58 million (2018) Area: 1,220,813 square kilometers The degree to which European settlers—mainly Dutch and British settlers displaced the indigenous people of South Africa was greater than in any other country in Africa..Even though the scramble for Africa was not until the 19th century, South Africa European domination began almost two centuries …
Most rural areas in Africa heavily rely on agriculture as a key to food security and support for livelihoods, employment and income.Agriculture is mainly practiced by small scale farmers.Often it’s characterized by mixed crop-livestock farming.If your village is like mine am sure this is familiar. Such practices can be attributed to tenure systems and agricultural …
Still on social distancing meaning a lot of indoors. Therefore, I have found myself scouring for informative content(real estate mostly) to watch on Netflix. Don’t get me wrong I still love my drama! So, in the process, I found this reality TV series “Selling Sunset. The gist is the drama in The Oppenheim Group real …
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Formally known as Nairobi Royal National Park, the park in the city has once again been a trending topic on Kenya twitter trends. Over the weekend twitter was fire! A year ago comments via a tweet questioned the worth of retaining the park. The appointment of the comments bearer to the tourism board was a …
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Google has released a new WordPress plugin for making web stories.In the sprit of you are never too old to learn a new technology (Maye Musk),I decided to try it out.This was made from contents of the previous post ” Reasonsns for securing her land rights| lesson from Nduku. I hope different look is interesting …
