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Pambazuka News

Website: 
https://www.pambazuka.org/
Email: 
editor@pambazuka.org
Postal address: 
PO Box 47158, 00100 GPO Nairobi, Kenya
Working languages: 
English
Portuguese
French
Africa
land

Pambazuka News is an open access, Pan-African e-mail and online electronic newsletter. It is published weekly in English, Portuguese and French by Fahamu. The word Pambazuka means 'dawn' or 'arise' in Kiswahili. Since its inception in 2000, its mission has been to provide a platform for social justice in Africa, for example, by promoting human rights for refugees. Pambazuka News provides commentary and analysis on politics and current affairs. 

The estimated readership is 500, 000. Pambazuka News produces the AU Monitor, a blog which provides information to civil society organizations in Africa about the proceeds of the African Union. It also produces podcasts. 

Pambazuka promoted the ratification of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa.

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Pambazuka News Resources

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African peasants highlight their struggles at Via Campesina global conference

Reports & Research
July, 2017
Africa
farmers
rural development
farmland
tenure security
advocacy

Reports from meeting near Bilbao from peasants in South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Niger, Mali, Senegal and Ghana. Almost everywhere in Africa the elite and corporations are undertaking efforts to capture and control people’s basic means of production, such as land, mineral resources, seeds and water. These resources are increasingly being privatized due to the myriad of investment agreements and policies driven by new institutional approaches, imposed on the continent by western powers and Bretton Woods institutions.

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‘Equality’ is not enough: Food security and farming: women’s rights in rural Africa

Reports & Research
April, 2012
Africa
Land & Gender
Land & Food Security
land
food security
land rights
women

Includes why are these issues especially poignant for women?, softening the blow while tightening the wrench, a question of ownership – women and land in Africa, the realities of customary land and the rights of women, land rights – moving beyond the individual claim.

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Land grabs: Africa’s new ‘resource curse’?

Reports & Research
November, 2009
Africa
land

Focuses on the rush by foreign investors to buy up agricultural land across Africa, all too often at the expense of the wellbeing and livelihoods of local communities.

Library Resource

Secure Land Rights for All

Reports & Research
September, 2009
Africa
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Land & Food Security
climate change
land rights
food security
land

Covers the rush to acquire land in Africa by foreign governments and private investors, fuelled by fears for global food security in the face of climate change and volatile food prices on the international market. Warns that the political and economic risks of these land purchases are colossal and outweigh any gains, and argues that African governments must make food security and sufficiency for their own people paramount.

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