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Rick has over 40 years experience working in the land sector in Southern Africa. He is part of the Land Portal knowledge engagement team working to research and develop knowledge resources including data stories, blogs and in-depth country profiles for Southern, Central and Eastern Africa.
Rick is also a Senior Research Associate with Phuhlisani NPC - a South African land sector NGO and the curator of specialist Southern African land news and analysis website https://knowledgebase.land
He tweets on land related issues Twitter account https://twitter.com/KnowledgebaseL
He has a PhD from the University of Cape Town. His research in Langa, Cape Town features as the central case study in a recent book Urban Planning in the Global South (2018), co-authored with the late Vanessa Watson, which examines the on-going contestations over land and housing in the rapidly growing cities of the global South.
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A DEADLY RING OF COAL: VALE’s poisoned gift to Mozambique
15 years ago, when the Mozambican government signed the contract with VALE, almost everybody in Mozambique believed that coal would develop the country. This investigation exposes part of the destruction that VALE Moçambique is preparing to leave behind now that it has announced an agreement to sell its projects to Vulcan Minerals for US $270 million.
Zimbabwe’s climate migration is a sign of what’s to come
Climate change will force tens of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa to migrate by 2050. In Zimbabwe, it's already started.
Cobalt miners call out 'neocolonialism' as firms avoid accountability
Lawyers in the Congo provide a rare look at the workers extracting a metal critical to the battery business
In Madagascar, beekeepers persist in the face of fires and forest loss
by Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy on 5 January 2022 | Translated by Pénélope Vasina
Khoisan group in court battle to halt construction of Amazon Africa headquarters
‘Our heritage is not for sale,’ say Khoisan members as they legally oppose the development of what will house Amazon’s Africa operations headquarters.
The Kruger National Park and its complex history of conservation and dispossession
KNP in perspective (Part One)
The Kruger National Park and its complex history of conservation and dispossession
By the 1950s, Kruger Park had become a global ‘must-see’ destination for tourists. Photo: SANParks Archives
Gorongosa National Park featured as a successful public-private partnership model in new World Bank report
A landmark new resource guide and toolkit from the World Bank and the Global Wildlife Program (funded by The Global Environment Facility) features Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park as a successful case study and model of a “Collaborative Management Partnership” – a public-private agreement set up to manage conservation areas and support sustainable, inclusive development.
Synthesis dialogue: Agricultural commercialisation and smallholder transformation in sub-Saharan Africa
Farmers across Africa face multiple challenges and need several income streams to get by. @agripolicy will draw on their extensive research at three upcoming events. The first is on Thursday 20 January 2020 11 am - 12:30 GMT, 12 PM - 1:30PM WAT 2PM - 3:30 EAT
Register bit.ly/3FhI6QN