Land reform, it turns out, isn’t just a path to prosperity—it can also be the means by which authoritarian regimes cement their control even as they impoverish their own people.

More on: Global Forests and Land Management This publication is now archived.IntroductionLand is a sensitive, even sacred, issue in many parts of the world. "I shall … ...

Community Land Scotland, Curator, Iain Craig, says: "Where We Stand will reflect the dramatic story of community landownership in Scotland – how people came together to upend Scotland’s ...

Donald Trump has spoken out against the South African government's new land reform policies, accusing the country of embarking on "land grabs" against "certain classes of people". South Africa ...

Following the liberation of China in 1949, the central government of the People's Republic of China published a Land Reform Law on June 30, 1950. The law abrogated ownership of land by landlords ...

Peace negotiators trying to end Colombia’s blood-drenched, five-decade old civil war Sunday announced an agreement on land reform between the Colombian government and FARC rebels.

South Africa's newly-minted president Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his State of the National address at the Parliament in Cape Town, on February 16, 2018.

In 1953, Bowles journeyed to Nepal from his base in Delhi to deliver a letter on land reform to King Tribhuvan. In the letter, he called for the king to abolish birta tax exemptions and to reform land ...

But land reform campaigners think the bill does not go far enough. Community Land Scotland (CLS) urged MSPs to push for tougher changes to break up "archaic" landownership in Scotland.