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The report’s findings suggest that policies and programmes of governments and the development partners could include a stronger focus on the development of peri-urban areas and smaller cities and towns. The rapid pace of change in peri-urban areas throws into relief any underlying issues in land tenure arrangements, land administration/planning and governance, such as overlapping mandates,…

Over the past several years, GRAIN staff and allies in different regions have been tracking media and other information sources on a daily basis and posting reports on land grab developments to the open-publishing platform farmlandgrab.org. GRAB used this website as the basis for constructing this dataset, which holds 491 land deals covering over 30 million hectares spanning 78 countries.2 This…

“Land matters” – more than ever! Can land be dealt with like other resources or – in terms of an economic perspective– forms of capital. Or does it attract particular meanings, sentiments, interests, acquisition strategies or social relations? What is particular to the production and dissemination of knowledge and capacity building about “land”? Is the influence of donor agencies,…

Recognising that drought resilience is imperative to achieving LDN, and that due to drought and desertification, arable land is being lost and that Africa is the most impacted continent. As part of the international community, African countries endorsed LDN in October 2015, and committed to strive to halt desertification and restore degraded land by 2030. In this regard, we the African countries…

This report has three main sections. In Water, migration and how they are interlinked we raise an issue that is central to the ongoing migration crisis in the Middle East and Europe. Some have claimed that drought is part of the underlying cause of the Syrian conflict and the subsequent hunger and migration. At a time when we are witnessing some of the largest refugee flows…

The humanitarian impact of the ongoing El Niño episode is deeply alarming, already affecting 60 million people. Projections indicate the situation in 2016 will not improve—hunger and suffering will increase for millions of vulnerable people, and food insecurity is projected to worsen through to at least the end of the year. In the face of such a critical threat to the lives and livelihoods of…