The Pennine Way Not quite ready to tackle Land's End to John O'Groats?
The meeting followed the first international farmers' conference to tackle land grabs, held in Selingue, southern Mali, in late 2011.
In particular, they fear that the government's failure to tackle land reform and overhaul the police still makes bloodshed in next year's election likely.
Few of Kenya's politicians seem ready to tackle land reform, constitutional reform or the dangerous culture of impunity, all of which were called urgent priorities after the bloodshed last year.
Our dysfunctional land market is one of the key barriers to house building, so I'm delighted to see proposals to tackle land banking such as charging council tax on undeveloped land and shortening the time before a planning permission expires.
Understanding the ecological background to land husbandry (as defined below) will improve the effectiveness of attempts to tackle land degradation.
It identifies new mechanisms to tackle land degradation based on retaining critical levels of natural capital whilst basing livelihoods on a wider range of ecosystem services.
Aid workers here say that what Ituri needs is long-term partnerships between government and international agencies to restore education, agriculture and economic networks, as well as a robust strategy to tackle land disputes that often plunge stabilised areas into fresh waves of violence.
* Very few land restitution cases have tackled land occupation by large national or international companies [many of these U.S. companies] or others who may have been responsible for the forced displacement and dispossession of the claimant.
She tells HARDtalk's Sarah Montague that, if elected, her party could tackle land-reform in a more effective way than the ANC and could "easily achieve" targets the ANC have said were impossible to reach.
Tackling land-grabbing will also help address some of the causes of climate change, since deforestation is very often a result of land-grabbing".
