These issues are causing serious problems for communities’ dwellers to get land for making their farms particularly in rural areas. On February 9, Welthungerhilfe (WHH), in conjunction with several Civil Society Actors, launched a Multi-Actor Partnership (MAP) on land governance in Liberia at the Corina Hotel in Monrovia under the title “Land for Life – Making Policies Work for Food Security”. Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and Civil Society Organization (CSOs) strongly believe that the passage of the Land Rights Bill by the national legislature is cardinal to solving land conflict and accelerate community development. Since 2014, Civil Society Actors have been advocating at the national legislature for the signing of the Land Rights Bill which when passed, will give communities ownership to their land. Like Liberia, the MAP project is also being piloted in Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso under the monitoring eyes of Welthungerhilfe Headquarters in Germany.

Source: Front Page Africa February 27, 2018 01:30 UTC