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The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) is seeking a highly qualified Postdoctoral fellow – Water Management to join its Sustainable Productivity Enhancement Program.
The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) is an association of 24 African member states and one of the 15 international Centers supported by…
Pour le compte d’Abu Dhabi Investment Company, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) a commis dernièrement un rapport baptisé « Into Africa – Institutional investor intentions to 2016 ». Il a été fait suite à l’analyse des opinions de plusieurs experts de la finance internationale et de 158…
Africa’s Latest Land Rush: The Effect Of Land Grabs On Women’s Rights - Article by Kathambi Kinoti ()
[From AWID] FRIDAY FILE: In Africa land rights are critical to economic power. In recent history, there have been three waves of land grabs: colonization, post-independence and present-day land grabs for commercial and apparently environment preservation purposes . Governments and corporations…
From 1st to 3rd June, in Yokohama, Japan, took place the Fifth Tokyo International Conference on Africa Development (TICAD V).
The TICAD.
TICAD was launched in 1993 to promote high-level policy dialogue between African leaders and development partners. TICAD has since evolved into a major…
In this June 5, 2013 photo, farmers prepare the soil for planting rice in a field which was confiscated in 1992 by the Myanmar security forces in Dala, southeast of Yangon Myanmar. About three hundred farmers led by social-justice activists entered the 500-acres (2-square kilometer) land on June 5…
The silent recolonisation of Africa is happening on a mass scale. To address this issue, the first Africa Conference on Land Grabs is set to take place in South Africa on 27–30 Oct. 2014. Land is the source of life and death, but it might not always be with us.
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Land grab protest in…
UN's REDD scheme promises carbon offsetting will empower local communities in the developing world while conserving forests - but critics say the scheme is fuelling genocidal evictions of indigenous people from their lands.
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Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 500 million acres of land in…
By Janah Ncube
An irrigated field in Kakamas, South Africa. Due to weak land tenure found in many African countries, large land transfers place local communities at significant risk of dispossession or expropriation. Credit: Patrick Burnett/IPS
NAIROBI, Sep 1 2014 (IPS) - Agriculture in Africa is…
Un groupe de femmes de la communauté de Watique à Kaya au Burkina Faso devant leur champs de riz.
Face au climat, les terres africaines sont en dangers, provoquant la faillite des agriculteurs, plus précisément des petits producteurs. Un rapport de l’Alliance pour une révolution verte en Afrique (…
Source: Humanité et Biodiversité
D'un bout à l'autre du monde, la culture de l'huile de palme connait une expansion rapide. Les nouvelles plantations en monoculture ont pour corollaire la destruction des forêts tropicales, l'exploitation de la main d'œuvre et un accaparement brutal des terres .…
Policies promoting biofuels development through financial incentives in Europe and in the United States of America are major drivers of the ‘land rush’ in many African countries. Yet, we know that most of the first projects have not achieved their intended objectives on the ground. Amidst these…
In the face of displacement due to large-scale development projects, can innovative legal solutions be used to protect smallholders' land rights?
Land tenure is a complex and sensitive issue throughout West Africa and nowhere more so than in Niger.
In this Sahelian country, legislation that…