‘Secure farm lands as economic activities increase’By JACKSON MAPAPAYI STAKEHOLDERS in Solwezi have called on the need to strengthen advocacy and sensitization on land acquisition to secure grazing and farming land for local peasant farmers. In a statement after an information sharing meeting jointly organised by Extractive Industry TransparencyInitiative (EITI) and Kansanshi Foundation, the stakeholders stated that this is because most farmers are unable to have secured land for their farming activities. They revealed that with the boom in economic activities in the district, most farmers have been displaced from their indigenous farm lands. “This therefore calls for the need for us as civil society organisationsto strengthen our advocacy and sensitisation on the matter at hand,” reads the communique. They also emphasised the need to lobby government to expedite the process of land tenure security through titling to enhance investment in agriculture. They said this would enable farmers in society have access to land for […]
‘Secure farm lands as economic activities increase’
