“I want to debunk a common misconception that agrarian reform only benefits poor farmers. This is not true,” he said. “Agrarian reform resolves centuries-old land injustices, ...

Matching grants to help transform farmers and their organizations into self-reliant rural entrepreneurs. MANILA, June 9, 2017 – Around 300,000 farmers and farm workers will benefit from a new ...

Ido Lekota. IDO LEKOTA. Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza tabled a R17, 3 billion budget in the past week to help support food security in the country.

People must clearly understand the benefits of possessing land titles, and the risks of not having them. The results of the program have been quite exceptional. In 2017, only 46 million land ...

Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Officer (PARPO) II Val Cristobal emphasized that DAR’s support goes beyond land distribution. “Providing modern FMEs empower our farmers to be more productive and ...

AGRA’s Thierry Hoza Ngoga, who led Rwanda’s land registration programme, reveals how land reform transformed its society and brought economic benefits – an example other countries should follow. This ...

Since independence in 1990, the land reform programme has focused on two ways of correcting historical wrongs. ... The “policy” of national reconciliation has delivered one-sided benefits.

Land reform remains one of South Africa’s most pressing unresolved issues. Attempts to address skewed ownership and economic participation patterns, the result of many years of exclusion and ...

Outsiders then till the land while the farmers work on sugarcane plantations. The system is illegal, but the Department of Agrarian Reform is not doing anything about it. In Pando, a congressman is ...