Em meados do mês passado, fomos surpreendidos com várias notícias de que o Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique (IIAM) está pronto a avançar com a liberalização de variedades de milho geneticamente modificado, faltando apenas a autorização da Autoridade Nacional de Biossegurança de Moçambique.
Burundi has the world’s highest hunger score and around 45 percent of the population is affected by food insecurity. The country copes with increasing scarcity of land as a result of increasing population size, returnees and IDPs and climate change. With the majority of Burundians depending on agriculture for their food and livelihoods, land scarcity makes this reliance on agriculture precarious. This pressure on land causes elevated levels of land disputes with over 55% of all court cases being related to conflicts over land.
A primeira rodada de entrevistas com os candidatos à presidência da República revelou que obviedades devem ser esclarecidas, sob o risco de cairmos em um buraco negro, no qual todas as verdades são relativizadas. Na última quinta-feira, dia 25 de agosto de 2022, em entrevista ao Jornal Nacional, o candidato à presidência, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva afirmou que suas propostas de política em defesa da Amazônia, do Pantanal e da Mata Atlântica faz com que o agronegócio seja contra ele nas eleições de 2022.
Por Claiton Mello
As comparações entre os países são difíceis de se estabelecer. No entanto, o modelo capitalista é o mesmo aplicado sobre a agricultura, seja em Portugal e na União Europeia, seja no Brasil e na maioria dos países da América Latina
There is an immense pressure on land in Uganda. The country has a rapidly growing population and is host to the world’s third largest refugee population. Particularly poor people struggle to get access to healthy food. Agriculture practices need to become more efficient and focused on the domestic market. The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) in Uganda works to improve food security in selected areas in the country. Among several food security projects, the EKN works with the LAND-at-scale program to improve land governance.
What are the state-of-the-art and new approaches to land consolidation as part of integrated rural development strategies in North Africa and Near East? That was the main question around which several experts from Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, and Turkey joined the FAO/ RVO roundtable discussion on land consolidation during the Second Arab Land Conference last February; a session which 110 participants attended – both in person and online.
De Neusa Silva e João Peseiro Monteiro
O empoderamento das mulheres e o envolvimento dos jovens é fundamental para um continente africano que tem de aprender a viver consigo mesmo. A entrevista exclusiva, na íntegra, com a comissária da União Africana, a angolana Josefa Sacko.
Por Abahlali baseMjondolo*
No capitalismo racial imposto pelo colonialismo, os detentores do poder monopolizaram seu controle sobre a terra
By Grace Goodrich
In the second part of an exclusive with Africa Oil & Power, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s Director for Africa, Paul Akiwumi, discusses trade facilitation reforms, debt relief programs and Official Development Assistance as instruments of aid for Angola during COVID-19.
What role will trade facilitation and policy reforms play in helping reduce Angola’s dependence on fuel exports?
