Africa Urged to enhance Capacity Building in the Land Sector

Abstract

The training helped practitioners to realize that the current set-up of wealthy landowners and poor people on the land is not actually a ‘normal’ arrangement and reflect on the tools that are needed to enable us to imagine a new dispensation around land. The training allowed us to question assumptions. When, as a government, you look at investors from other countries coming in for land deals, you don’t tend to look at the costs in terms of identity, culture and the actual meaning of the land for the community.