Equitable Land Rights Promotion
Publisher: Search for Common Ground
Date: 2016
Topics: Land
Countries: Sierra Leone
Increasingly, Sierra Leone has been encouraging new investment in the Agriculture sector. This effort has begun to yield results, with large scale investments in the agriculture in some parts of the country. The investments have resulted to the leasing of thousands of hectares of land from communities through land negotiations. However, this positive economic development paradigm shift is having its toll on the affected communities. Their livelihood has been threatened which has resulted to conflicts in the communities even though not on large scale. In the absence of conflict transformation initiatives, it is eminent the conflict could graduate into large scale and violent instability.