‘I live in fear everyday of losing everything’
More than 2,400 villagers from the Garithe community in Kenya’s Marereni Salt Belt, are fighting for their right to continue living on 800 acres of their ancestral land which they have lived and
'I have hopes that we will have our land back'
More than 2,400 people are locked in a legal battle with a salt mining company. The Garithe community in Kenya’s Marereni Salt Belt are fighting for their right to continue living and working on
'They came like a thief, demolished and destroyed the place'
Villagers from Garithe In Kenya's Marereni Salt Belt are fighting for their right to continue living and working on nearly 800 acres of land they have farmed for generations. Dickson Kenga, a palm
‘Our village was filled with palm trees, but now they’re all dead’
Kahaso Charo, 60, is a farmer who has lived near Garithe in Kenya’s Salt Belt since 2015. Her once fertile farmland is now being polluted by the salt mining company, Kurawa Salt, which recently moved
ActionAid Zambia: Mining companies must not be allowed to pollute with impunity
Konkola Copper Mines – a subsidiary of the UK-based mining giant Vedanta – has been polluting the main water source of surrounding villages in Chingola, in Zambia’s Copperbelt Province, and leaving a
Public policies that advance or hinder rural women’s and young people’s livelihoods and climate justice for all
ActionAid seeks a major paradigm shift to tackle the global climate emergency and gender equality crisis. The discussion paper highlights the key policies that hinder and enable rural women and young
Protecting the grass under elephants
To mark International Day of Rural Women, Fletcher Simwaka, communications officer at ActionAid Malawi, makes the case for a strong, gender-just binding UN treaty to ensure transnational companies
Never Give Up: the struggle for a birthright
This is the story of the Acholi people of Apaa, Uganda. They have routinely been displaced from their land and this is the story of their struggle for a land to call home.
ActionAid responds to UN report on land and climate change
On 8 August 2019 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its landmark report on land use and climate. This is ActionAid's response.
Act On It!
Over the past 15 years, large investors have acquired tens of millions of hectares of land in developing countries. This report details how governments can use these four steps with a checklist of
