https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Land surveyors escape mob action in Mubende over alleged illegal demarcation. NEMA ‘evictions’: how the process reveals NEMA’s mistakes and failures to ascertain whether people who have lived on their land in Kawaala since the 1940s are lawful occupants. Rights experts call for an inclusive transition as the East Africa region attracts renewable energy investments. CSOs welcome the World Bank’s accountability reform and demand an influential role in selecting its new accountability leadership, underscoring the importance of genuine justice for communities. World leaders are urging support for pastoral mobility as a crucial strategy to sustain rangelands and address intensifying challenges from climate change and land pressures. Court Ruling: RDCs and police cannot stop lawful land evictions. Civil society groups scoff at AfDB’s New African Financial Architecture Initiative, saying it’s here to worsen challenges facing African food systems. Africa’s responsible business agenda is facing challenges as more land is taken from local communities for investment, and landowners struggle to secure justice. The Indigenous Seeds movement in East Africa is convening in Kenya, with the potential to reshape the region’s food systems. Contact Us About Us Women farmers in East Africa refuse to vacate their land to give way to land-based investment projects. The 2nd edition of East Africa Business and Human Rights opens in Nairobi, highlighting the critical issue of African States’ limited participation in global treaty-making, which risks leaving the continent’s specific needs unaddressed. Buvuma residents drove off surveyors as they resisted the surveying of their land targeted for palm oil tree planting. Podcast Podcast Show World Environment Day 2026: Environmental Advocates warn of rising ecological costs arising from Uganda’s land-based investments. Accountability in Crisis: Development banks, while funding Asia’s energy transition, are accused of silencing Asian local and Indigenous communities, highlighting the central tension between a clean-energy push and the repression of those most affected. Agroecological Entrepreneurship: African farmers are redefining agriculture by building agroecological businesses that challenge industrial models. CSOs demand a stronger UNDP accountability mechanism to offer meaningful redress to victims. Stop favoring export-oriented production over strengthening local food systems – Food Sovereignty advocates to the African Development Bank officials. Food systems in conflict areas: Architectures of armed conflict are turning food and hunger into weapons of war. Experts warn that without Africa’s control over resources and climate financing, the continent faces the risk of entering a new era of “green colonialism”. Rising fertilizer dependence sparks debate over Africa’s agricultural future; experts call for urgent critical review process. A Ugandan minister is in the hot seat over the grabbing of land from a peasant in Kiryandongo district. More than 500 Masindi residents live in fear as a tycoon targets their land. Community stories written by community members that highlight local impact (both positive and negative), community struggles on land tenure and sustainable agriculture, featuring narratives of volunteership, cultural traditions, and both community and personal triumphs over adversity. Using agroecology as a climate adaptation strategy and fighting extreme weather: A case of a retired teacher farming on a rocky terrain in Mukono, Uganda. “We are facing increased violent land dispossessions and climate injustices” – African women. Kassanda businessmen accused of a second attempt to grab an 86-year-old farmer’s land despite court orders. Inside Eastern DRC War: The untold story of grabbing land for local and indigenous communities. A community in Yumbe district has raised serious concerns about allegations of land-grabbing involving an aspirant for Uganda’s Parliamentary Speakership, affecting over 50 families. A Global Report reveals that Development Banks’ Accountability Systems are failing communities. Experts push for a National Bamboo Policy to strengthen climate mitigation efforts. Hidden iceberg: A new report identifies large scale industrial agriculture, livestock, and mining sectors as leading sources of attacks against land and environmental defenders worldwide. The Carbon Mirage in Uganda: How reforestation initiatives are turning into sources of displacement and poverty? More women are going to be sexually abused and forced to lose their land to the rich/investors as Uganda goes into a semi lockdown of 42 days Uganda moves toward a Bamboo Policy to boost environmental conservation and green growth. Nakuru County has adopted an agroecology policy to boost climate-resilient, sustainable agriculture. Women environmental rights defenders in Africa are at the most significant risk of threats and attacks – ALLIED New report Evicted from their land to host Refugees: A case of Uganda’s Kyangwali refugee settlement expansion, which left host communities landless. Witness Radio and Seed Savers Network are partnering to produce radio content to save indigenous seeds in Africa. Indigenous communities in Eastern Nepal accuse the World Bank’s Linked Cable Car Project of rights violations. Close to six years on, Pangero Chiefdom subjects still linger in pain after the government army’s forceful takeover of their ancestral land. Home The Witness Radio and Seed Savers Network Joint Radio program boosts Farmers’ knowledge of seed and food sovereignty. Decades of land loss and chronic poverty: Salala Rubber Plantation prioritizes profit over the well-being of local Liberian communities. 13 years after the refugee host community was forcefully evicted to expand a refugee settlement, thousands remain unsettled. The Kenyan government insists on maintaining provisions of the Seed Act that the court nullified: farmers and legal experts question the motive. Communities file second complaint against World Bank-funded project over failed redress in Tanzania.