The troubles of Socfin have frequented reports of land grabbing in Africa over the years. This article based on three months of investigative journalism by Gideon Sarpong and Robert Abunaw looks back on the past 10 ...

Responding to an invitation from the Cameroonian government to help design a new land legal framework, civil society stakeholders have issued multiple proposals over the years on the topics they think should be ...

Despite a recent transparency law and participation in transparency initiatives, Cameroon’s investment environment remains plagued by poor transparency. In a new report CCSI and CED find that: communities continue ...

For many decades communities in West and Central Africa have been facing industrial oil palm plantations encroaching onto their community land. With the false promise of bringing ‘development’ and jobs, ...

Sustainable land governance requires that all members of a community have equal rights and say in decisions that affect their collectively held lands. Unfortunately women around the world have less land ownership ...

This guidebook comprises a collection of practices and strategies used by civil society organisations around the world working to advance inclusive land governance. The aim is to provide a source of inspiration as ...

Land in Cameroon is under growing pressure – powerful commercial interests, changing climate conditions and shifting demographic flows including mass migration and increasing population density. The rights of ...

A selection of nine short videos from InsightShare, which in October 2019 hosted a grassroots gathering in South Africa of African Indigenous activists representing 12 diverse communities from across the continent, ...

For decades food insecurity has been a challenge in Cameroon’s Far North region, mainly due to extreme weather and weak land legislation. Now the problem is escalating. The current humanitarian crisis caused by ...

Cameroon’s current land law appears to have two conflicting objectives: to attract investors through large-scale land concessions; while protecting biodiversity, defending local people’s rights and promoting ...