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16 Febrero 2017
Anualmente são extraídas cerca de 40 mil milhões de toneladas de areia no mundo para construir estradas, edifícios, telefones e microchips. Vários países africanos lançam agora o alerta, porque estão a ficar sem areia.
Zanzibar, um estado semi-autónomo da Tanzânia, dependente economicamente de…
9 Febrero 2017
Date: 09 février 2017
Source: APS
Environ 63 % des conflits liés aux investissements privés à base foncière et des ressources naturelles en Afrique sont causés par le déplacement forcé des populations, révélent de nouvelles recherches publiées, jeudi à Dakar, par la structure TMP Systems et l…
12 Diciembre 2014
Source: iied
By Eric Yeboah
Land rights play a crucial role in agricultural development and inclusive growth, but in many countries in Africa, women lose out from patriarchal legal and cultural traditions. How can these practices be changed to benefit everyone?
How can African countries…
Land Net Malawi
From 15-17 November, the members of the ILC Africa platform gathered together for the annual ILC Africa Assembly of Members in Lome, Togo. Organized by LandNet West Africa, under the theme of “Bringing land tenure issues into the development agenda: the role of civil society, the…
The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) is a non-political organization of the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) of ten countries: Burundi, D. R. Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. It…
The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) is a not-for-profit organisation that facilitates and promotes public-private partnerships for the access and delivery of appropriate proprietary agricultural technologies for use by resource-poor farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Established seven…
Despite extensive research focusing separately on agriculture, health, and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa, the connections between these topics are seldom addressed. The African Food System and Its Interaction with Human Health and Nutrition, a book edited by Cornell University professor and…
PUBLICATIONS: Fact sheets on land and natural resources tenure in West Africa (English and French) ()
A set of instructional briefs on land and natural resource tenure in West Africa has been produced by the Technical Committee on “Land Tenure & Development” and the “Land Tenure Policy Elaboration Support” mobilizing project finaced by the Agence Française de Développement. Most are available…
The jubilee congress (1981-2011) of the Commission on Legal Pluralism, entitled 'Living Realities of Legal Pluralism' will take place 8-11 September 2011 at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. The Commission holds the congress in cooperation with the Centre for Legal and Applied Research (…
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) are undertaking a gender mapping of agriculture in Africa in order to better understand how to best target small-scale water management strategies to farmers. In order to ensure our…
A new web page provides information on and access to the 2 films and accompanying educational materials based on stories by Jesse Ribot and co-directed and produced by Pape Faye and Jesse Ribot. The films both address obstacles to the making and implementation of fair forest management policies.…
The International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) is recruiting an African Regional Director to provide overall leadership and supervision in the planning and implementation of the Institute’s strategy and its rural development programs and operations in Africa. The primary functions…