Land Policy Initiative

Cape Town, South Africa, October 6, 2019 (University of Western Cape) – The training helped practitioners to realise that the current set-up of wealthy landowners and poor people on the land is not actually a ‘normal’ arrangement and reflect on the tools that are needed to enable us to imagine a new dispensation around land. The training allowed us to question assumptions. When, as a government, you look at investors from other countries coming in for land deals, you don’t tend to look at the costs in terms of identity, culture and the actual meaning of the land for the community.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, October 31, 2019 (ECA) – Preparations are underway for third edition of the Conference on Land Policy in Africa (CLPA-2019) which will convene under the theme, ‘Winning the Fight against Corruption in the Land Sector: Sustainable Pathway for Africa’s Transformation’.

The conference, scheduled for November in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, is a policy and learning event whose goal is to deepen capacity for land policy in Africa through improved access to knowledge and information on land policy development and implementation.