Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 21 September 2020 – In their quest to help strengthen Africa’s weak land governance and insecure land rights issues which remain major development challenges for the continent, technical experts met in a virtual meeting to discuss these concerns and plan ahead on what is needed to achieve the African Union’s agenda on land.
Nairobi, Kenya, 29 June 2020 (ECA) - On 22nd June 2020, the African Land Policy Center (ALPC) held the first Editorial Board Meeting for the African Journal on Land Policy and Geospatial Sciences (AJLP&GS). The Editor in Chief of AJLP&GS is Professor Moha El- Ayachi of the IAV Hassan II University in Morocco. The IAV Hassan II is a node in of the Network of Land Governance in Africa (NELGA).
After a long period of improvement, hunger in Africa - as measured by the prevalence of undernourishment - worsened in 2014-2018. This trend slowed in 2017-2018. Today 256 million Africans, or 20 percent of the population, are undernourished. Of these, 239 million are in subSaharan Africa and 17 million in Northern Africa.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 28, 2020 (ECA) – The ongoing coronavirus crisis (COVID-19) has added impetus to the need for African nations to create comprehensive, up to date land registries to safeguard ordinary people’s land rights, especially in rural communities, Joan Kagwanja of the African Land Policy Centre said Thursday.
The sensitization workshop on the Guidelines for Curricula Development on Land Governance in Africa brings together a team of expert on land governance and related fields competitively selected to support Universities in Africa to mainstream the Guidelines for Curricula Development on Land Governance in Africa. The Workshop is meant to take the team of experts through the content and process of Mainstreaming the Guidelines. The Workshop will be delivered through lectures on the various themes of the Guidelines by some renowned experts on land governance in Africa.
Nairobi, Kenya, 3 March 2020 - A team of experts have gathered in Nairobi for a sensitization workshop from 3-6 March to develop guidelines for curricula development on land governance in Africa. The objective of the meeting is to sensitize the team of experts on the content and process of mainstreaming the Guidelines for Curricula Development on land governance in Africa