• 3 September 2022

This State of Land Information (SOLI) report from the Land Portal assesses the state of land data in Senegal against principles of land data openness, land information availability and accessibility, and overall ...

  • 27 May 2021

A recent study of two Senegalese villages showed how training women on land access is helping them claim their land rights. But disparities in results between locations and the use of customary practices as the ...

  • 19 February 2021

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 ...

  • 25 January 2021

A 22 minute video about one of the biggest cases of agricultural land grabbing in Senegal: 20,000 hectares, first allocated to Senhuile-Sénéthanol, now known as Les Fermes de la Téranga. The Italian investors ...

  • 20 December 2020

This study examines how Senegalese CSOs operating within the framework for dialogue and action on land in Senegal (CRAFS) mobilised around the process of formulating a draft land reform, led by the National Land ...

  • 23 October 2020

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 the ...

  • 11 September 2019

Combining both written analysis and video interviews, this ‘longread’ details the impacts on women’s lives of three approaches developed by IIED partners in Tanzania, Ghana and Senegal to reinforce land ...

  • 11 August 2019

In many rural areas across sub-Saharan Africa lack of tenure security for women has been exacerbated by rising commercial pressure on land, further aggravated by climate change, urbanisation and population growth. ...

  • 23 December 2017

Over the last two decades, 200 million people across the world have been lifted out of hunger. But as climate change brings more frequent and severe weather shocks such as droughts and floods, and makes rainfall ...

  • 31 July 2017

Reports from meeting near Bilbao from peasants in South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Niger, Mali, Senegal and Ghana. Almost everywhere in Africa the elite and corporations are undertaking efforts to capture and ...