Representing the SADC
In the predominantly women-owned agricultural lands of Serenje District in Zambia’s Central Province, home of the Lala people, a lesser-known form of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) has been unfolding for several years. Large-scale land acquisitions, often without compensation, have put the rural women of Serenje at risk of not only losing their ancestral land but also … Read More “Zambia: Rural Women Confront Land Dispossession As a Form of GBV” »
Chipata, Zambia — As we approach the forest in the village to appreciate Andrew Mbewe’s beekeeping enterprise, a bee from a hive close to the edge of the natural woodland stings him on the cheek. He steps back quickly, waving everyone away from danger, as he grimaces and grumbles in pain while trying to take … Read More “Zambia: Communities Taking a Sting Out of Poaching With Alternative Livelihoods” »
PRESIDENT Dr Samia Suluhu Hassan has revealed that the decision by Tanzania to allocate a 20-hectare-land at Kwala Dry Port area in the Coast Region specifically for consignment destined for Zambia is aimed at promoting the people centric economic development endeavor. Zambia will be facilitated with a longer storage period of up to 45 days … Read More “Tanzania: Kwala Dry Port – Why Zambia Deserve Slot” »
Tanzanian government has allocated 20 hectares of land at the Kwala Dry Port in the Coast region in Coast Region that will be dedicated for consignments destined for Zambia to ease business between the two SADC member states. President Samia Suluhu Hassan declared this when gracing the 59th Anniversary of the Independence of Zambia in … Read More “Tanzania Offers Special Gift to Zambians” »
Blantyre — Located between two heavily-deforested mountains, Nakadanga Trust in Machinga District in southern Malawi looks lifeless. It is isolated away from all other original communities. Here, the houses are made of mud bricks and they are grass thatched. There is no source of potable water in the area. There is no school nearby, no … Read More “Malawi: Land Beneficiaries Lament Worsening Poverty in Resettled Areas” »
Over half of Zambia’s population lived below the national poverty line in 2015. In rural areas, where 89% of households are engaged in agriculture, the poverty rate was even higher, at 77% of the population. The government runs several programmes of financial support for farmers. Some provide agricultural inputs directly to households. Agricultural input subsidies … Read More “Zambia: Direct Support to Small Scale Farmers Reduces Poverty – What Zambia Is Doing Right” »
THE Ministry of Environment, Forestry, and Tourism said the 100-kilometre-long state forest in the Zambezi region is under threat due to foreigners entering at undesignated points to harvest timber on a daily basis. This was revealed by ministry spokesperson Romeo Muyunda during an interview with The Namibian yesterday. He said the environment ministry has been … Read More “Namibia: Zambezi Forest Under Daily Threat From Illegal Timber Harvesters” »
Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development Sam Dalitso Kawale has described the Land Information Management System (LMIS) the ministry has developed as timely in addressing challenges that indigenous Malawians used to face to access land in their own country. The ministry is implementing LMIS with support from the World Bank under the Agricultural Commercialization … Read More “Malawi: Govt Steps Up Efforts to Safeguard Indigenous Malawians’ Rights to Land” »
