Researchers have found new evidence that a gigantic superplume of hot rock is rising beneath Africa, causing intense ... very similar to those of the most primordial (ancient) surface signatures ...

A system based on private land titles reaches no farther inland than the salty sea air. So it goes in many parts of Africa, where roughly three-quarters of land is under customary ownership.

Land degradation is a huge issue across the continent of Africa. One of its biggest drivers is biological invasions. This is when invasive species (species that aren’t naturally found in the ...

The divisive topic of land expropriation in Africa made the headlines last month. This came after AfriForum spread ...

“The land, the water, it’s in abundance,” he gushes. Beyond his fields, the tall grass waves. For most of its history, sub-Saharan Africa has been short of people, not land. In 2011 the ...

Those ancient microbial mats, preserved for eons and only recently discovered in South Africa, may be the oldest fossil evidence of life on land ... of each other like primordial lasagna and ...

found that land grabbing is still ongoing in Africa, 10 years after the United Nations attempted to introduce a plan to prevent the uncontrolled purchase of land by major, mostly foreign ...

Farmers in developing countries are particularly badly affected. In Africa, about 28 percent of the land is being degraded and this costs the continent an estimated 56 billion euros annually.

Few questions in Africa are as vexed as land ownership, and the continent is dotted with countries that wrecked their economies trying to right historical injustices. Now South Africa is in danger ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Large land deals in Africa with foreign companies have come under renewed scrutiny after an Indian firm, Karuturi Global, demanded compensation for the ...

South Africa’s land reform policy remains highly contested. But, in our view, a number of persistent myths about farmland statistics and the structure of commercial agriculture skew debates.