David Anaafo, University of Energy and Natural Resources
Reforms to land policies and regulations are enabling the traditional custodians of the land in Ghana to transfer ownership. Communal land users could lose their basic rights.
Truck drivers, clearing agents and activists protest over job losses in Mombasa, Kenya.
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Critics have said that ranching is environmentally unsustainable because it results in land degradation. There are other reasons it’s not the solution.
Young Sandi Sile on an abandoned structure in Makhanda, South Africa, in 2013. Questions remain about how the new law will treat abandoned land.
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The proposed new law has a long history. The country has been trying for almost 12 years now to come up with expropriation legislation that is in line with the constitution.