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The Land and Agrarian Reform Policy Initiative for the SADC Region is a two phased project that is being coordinated and managed by Community Technology Development Trust (CTDT) and the African Institute for Agrarian Studies (AIAS). The project covers seven countries in the Region: Botswana, South Africa, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.The major objective of the project is to embrace and advocate for pro poor policy positions and directions on land and agrarian reform in Southern Africa. |
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Regional Planning Coordinating Committee Meeting |
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The fourth and final RPCC meeting was held on the 3rd of March 2011 in Lusaka Zambia. The panel discussed the setting up of SALARN as an independent initiative and interrogated the draft SALARN constitution drawn up towards the proposed move. A recap of the previous meeting and an update on the status of SALARN project activities were given. |
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MEDIA ALERT: Landless and farmers to march on rural town of Robertson |
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Issued by the Mawubuye Land Rights Forum, 23 April 2008.
Small farms and landless people will commemorate Freedom Day on Monday 28 April by marching on the rural Western Cape town of Robertson to demand access to government land to feed their families.
Mawubuye Land Rights Forum will deliver a memorandum to Western Cape MEC for Local Government, Richard Dyanti, and Breede River Winelands Municipality Mayor, John Ngonyama. This will be the largest march on record in the municipality.
Mawubuye chairperson, Henry Michaels, told communities: “It’s been fourteen years since we got our vote and we still cannot feed our families, develop our communities, or lead lives of dignity. Our government has land which it leases to commercial farmers while our people remain poor.”
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2008 Annual Small Scale Farmers Forum |
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Press Statement: 2008 ANNUAL SMALL SCALE FARMERS FORUM
Posted Sep 09, 2008
On September 24 & 25, the Farmers Organization Support Programme (FOSUP) and Zambia Land Alliance (ZLA), in conjunction with Concern WorldWide and MS Zambia, will host the 2008 Annual Small Scale Farmers Forum in Lusaka. This year’s theme is “Land Access and Control: Key to Household and National Food Security.”
“Every living thing is grounded on land both while living and after death. This is enshrined in the principle of life and nature interaction,” said FOSUP Executive Director Mike Muleba. Mr Muleba said, “As custodians of natural resources such as land, men, women and youth need to have free access and firm control over land as a productive resource and a means to livelihood”
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Issues of scale for Zambian farmers (BBC ARTICLE) |
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Posted Jul 31, 2008
By Paul Moss, BBC World Tonight, Zambia
Brenda Dakka does not look like the kind of woman who would be fascinated by heavy machinery.
But at her 1500 hectare farm in Mkushi District, eastern Zambia, Brenda and her husband Joe have plenty of tractors, pumps and other agricultural paraphernalia helping to ensure their crops are healthy, but above all keeping the farm's productivity high.
"I've got diggers, reapers - so per day, I can do a larger area," she insists.
"Small-scale farms prepare the land manually - but I'm mechanised, so I've got an advantage. If the world needs food security, commercial farming is the way to go."
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Improved access and dissemination of information |
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IMPROVED ACCESS AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION ON LAND AND AGRARIAN ISSUES
Development of a Land Information and Knowledge Database
In pursuit of strengthening knowledge on land and agrarian policy issues in the region, the project has managed to establish a website (www.landagrarian.org), which is still under construction but is online. The website is as a result of preparatory work which includes research and studying other websites. The website shows land policies; legislations; publications; regional and international reports; activities of the network; latest news; upcoming events and related links. The website also hosts the network’s e-newsletter, which shall be published quarterly. The first issue on the E- Newsletter was in May and contained articles on gender and land, international law and land, willing buyer willing seller conceptual analysis and an analysis on the Zambian proposed land policy. The intention is to make the website a point of reference for policy makers, scholars and activists interested in land issues in the region. We plan to extensively collect research material on the subject to be included on the website. There are prospects of linking this website with the SADC’s website. A study was concluded by a consultant, analyzing such prospects. |
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