Land reform dates back to Roman times and the agrarian laws passed by the Senate around 133 BC, which indirectly led to the undoing of the Roman Republic and presaged the emergence of feudalism. In ...

Start a Latin American reformer talking, and he will begin reciting the region’s needs almost by rote: schools, houses, hospitals — and, always, land reform. As his example of land reform, he ...

As a native of Ethiopia, UB faculty member Mekonnen Ayano knows that for millions of people living in Sub-Saharan Africa, their lives revolve around their land. Those without land, or at least access ...

Photo for illustrative purposes: Getty Images As an ex-Zimbabwean farmer whose farms were confiscated by the Mugabe ...

The first US Ambassador came to Nepal 65 years ago this week to push for socio-economic reform All Photos: Chester Bowles Papers (MS 628). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University LibraryBY GONES: ...

The government has allocated about 3.9-million hectares of land at a cost of about R27bn under its restitution programme ...

IN THE district courthouse in Rangpur, crowds throng magistrates’ doorways in search of redress. Many grievances in this northern quarter of Bangladesh have to do with land. Almas, a peasant-farmer in ...

Over its 75-year history, the People’s Republic of China has suffered numerous traumas, but perhaps none with longer-lasting consequences than land reform—a violent campaign of torture, murder, and ...

THIS means the great landed estates will be broken up throughout Latin America,” said a top U.S. sugar broker last week, as Fidel Castro signed his agrarian reform decree. The Castro bill quickened ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed a law granting more than a million people land titles in huge chunks of the Amazon, aiming to end decades of legal chaos in ...

The Mizoram government is set to introduce a comprehensive new land law aimed at modernising land administration and ...