Urban growth threatens ancestral lands
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CTA. 2001. Urban growth threatens ancestral lands. Rural Radio Resource Pack 01/4. Wageningen, The Netherlands: CTA.
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As cities expand to cover farmland with roads and buildings, the conflict between traditional land rights, and modern systems of ownership and distribution become very clear. This report comes from Blantyre in Malawi, where city authorities now charge rent on land that was once freely owned.