The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) report documents ongoing efforts to strengthen women’s rights to housing, land, and property (HLP) in Plateau State, Nigeria, where customary norms often block women from…
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This report examines the challenges surrounding Housing, Land, and Property (HLP) rights among communities in Northeast Nigeria who have been displaced and are now facing return or relocation by government…
In Nigeria, women comprise a significant portion of the agricultural workforce, yet face systemic barriers to fully participating in sustainable agriculture. Despite being vital to food production, women struggle with…
This publication explores how legal empowerment work can account for gender and power dynamics when advancing land, environmental, and climate (LEC) justice. The strategies and stories within are drawn from…
This investigative article published by Mongabay looks back 10 years at the travails of five communities in Nigeria’s Cross River State, whose land was allocated to Wilmar International for palm…
The reality that significant improvements in security of tenure at scale in rural Africa are still needed nearly a decade after the adoption of the Voluntary Guidelines for the Responsible…
Advancing women’s land rights is a priority for the international development agenda, yet there is no consensus on which rights should be monitored and reported. Three indicators of women’s property…
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,…
This report responds to heightened concerns over rising levels of farmer-herder conflict across a wide band of semi-arid Africa. It assesses the quantitative evidence behind this general impression and reviews…
Reflects on the experience of DFID land programmes which include land tenure regularisation (LTR) across six countries (Guyana, Rwanda, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Mozambique), drawing wherever possible on relevant experiences…