Day: July 23, 2012

I visited Burkina in 2008 in support of the formulation phase of the "Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa." I am back, this time in support of an initiative to help develop an implementation

In December 2008, there was talk of Kenya leasing 100, 000 acres of land on the Tana River Delta to Qatar. Debate on this escalated in 2009, with local activists lobbying hard against this prospect.

It was time to conclude the African land policy process. A final experts’ meeting was scheduled at Addis. This time round, Professor Okoth Ogendo, fellow countryman and “the guru” to the process, had