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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.

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.

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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.

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.

Africa’s responsible business agenda is facing challenges as more land is taken from local communities for investment, and landowners struggle to secure justice.

Africa’s responsible business agenda is facing challenges as more land is taken from local communities for investment, and landowners struggle to secure justice.

Land surveyors escape mob action in Mubende over alleged illegal demarcation.

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.

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.

Sustainable Agriculture

Civil society groups scoff at AfDB’s New African Financial Architecture Initiative, saying it’s here to worsen challenges facing African food systems.

Civil society groups scoff at AfDB’s New African Financial Architecture Initiative, saying it’s here to worsen challenges facing African food systems.

Agroecological Entrepreneurship: African farmers are redefining agriculture by building agroecological businesses that challenge industrial models.

Agroecological Entrepreneurship: African farmers are redefining agriculture by building agroecological businesses that challenge industrial models.

The Indigenous Seeds movement in East Africa is convening in Kenya, with the potential to reshape the region’s food systems.

The Indigenous Seeds movement in East Africa is convening in Kenya, with the potential to reshape the region’s food systems.

Stop favoring export-oriented production over strengthening local food systems – Food Sovereignty advocates to the African Development Bank officials.

Stop favoring export-oriented production over strengthening local food systems – Food Sovereignty advocates to the African Development Bank officials.

Rising fertilizer dependence sparks debate over Africa’s agricultural future; experts call for urgent critical review process.

Rising fertilizer dependence sparks debate over Africa’s agricultural future; experts call for urgent critical review process.

Agroecological farming: EAC Bill moves to Parliament to establish a regional legal framework to protect and promote sustainable farming and food systems.

Agroecological farming: EAC Bill moves to Parliament to establish a regional legal framework to protect and promote sustainable farming and food systems.

Local stories from and by community members.

Women farmers in East Africa refuse to vacate their land to give way to land-based investment projects.

Women farmers in East Africa refuse to vacate their land to give way to land-based investment projects.

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.

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.

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