One of the world’s major buyers of farmland is under fire for their involvement in land conflicts, environmental destruction and risky investments. A new report by GRAIN and Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos1 presents, for the first time, a comprehensive analysis of Harvard

The university’s holdings in developing markets have proved to be more trouble than they’re worth. Fourteen years ago, a Brazilian farmer named Ruthardo Grun says he was terrorized by armed thugs who shot at him, burned down his shack, and chased him from land

By witnessradio.org team Uganda joins the rest of the world to commemorate World Food Day, 2018, it’s worrying to note increasing acts of violence from native communities in a bid to fight back their land rights. The latest happened in Mubende district on 11th/10/2018,

State Minister for Water Ronald Kibuule has been named before the land inquiry for backing eviction of hundreds of families from a 488-acre land comprising three villages in Nama

By D. Amari Jackson When it comes to our global climate, few would argue that growing more trees is a bad thing. After all, forests naturally soak up greenhouse

By witnessradio.org/  Land portal The first official results from an international survey of how secure people feel in their homes and on their land reveal that in the initial 15 countries

By witnessradio.org Team A Norwegian plantation forestry and carbon offset company, Green Resources is being pinned for causing social, cultural, and environmental damage in two districts of Uganda that

By witnessradio.org Team On March 14th, 2018, the Land Inquiry Commission opened investigations into violent land eviction of indigenous communities from former government ranches in Kiryandongo district and directed

By witnessradio.org team After years of crying out loud to district leaders, area police and local leaders to rescue thousands of natives from being evicted by a Chinese tree-planting

By witnessradio.org team Like any other parts of the world, agriculture forms the most source of livelihood especially to the pleasantly community at the countryside. However, it has become

As the battle for land ownership becomes increasingly intense, victims of forceful land eviction in four villages; Kicucculo, Nakasozi, Butolo and Kyedikyo all in Madudu parish, Butoloogo sub-county Mubende

By witnessradio.org Team On March 14th, 2018, the Land Inquiry Commission opened investigations into violent land eviction of indigenous communities from former government ranches in Kiryandongo district and directed

By witnessradio.org team After years of crying out loud to district leaders, area police and local leaders to rescue thousands of natives from being evicted by a Chinese tree-planting

By witnessradio.org team Like any other parts of the world, agriculture forms the most source of livelihood especially to the pleasantly community at the countryside. However, it has become

As the battle for land ownership becomes increasingly intense, victims of forceful land eviction in four villages; Kicucculo, Nakasozi, Butolo and Kyedikyo all in Madudu parish, Butoloogo sub-county Mubende

First, it was “gossip” that supposedly pushed Uganda’s government to introduce a tax on social media use. Several weeks later, the country’s 72-year-old president Yoweri Museveni changed tack, saying officials were

The study also looked at news literacy levels for the first time, and found that 68 per cent of respondents were unaware of the financial difficulties of news organisations 

Jamii Forums, a popular blogging site in Tanzania, has cited new online content regulations by the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) as the reason for its temporary shutdown. The

In an open letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Access Now is calling upon Facebook to undergo an independent audit of its data processing accompanied by a global human rights assessment. The