Guinea-Bissau

New Country Portfolio for Guinea Bissau
23 November 2022
Guinea-Bissau has been described as a country of “precarious complexity”. Home to more than 20 ethnic groupings Guinea-Bissau fought one of the longest wars on the African continent to end centuries of Portuguese control. It finally obtained independence in 1974. Since 1980 the history of Guinea…

Land tenure continues to be major objective of development agenda
20 October 2021
With a total of 65 participants (37% women) from 14 countries (Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Pakistan, Sudan and Uganda) the 10th and last Capitalization Meeting of the EU Land Governance Transversal Project, was virtually…

Chinese logging takes heavy toll on farmers in Guinea-Bissau
8 May 2019
West Africa's native rosewood was listed as endangered last year following a huge increase in trade driven by Chinese demand GAMAMADU, Guinea-Bissau - Before the ban, Chinese loggers drove straight through Gamamadu village to harvest its most important resource: the rosewood forest. "So many…
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Webinar on COVID-19 and Tenure Security
9th Capitalization Meeting of the EU Land Governance Programme 3 NOVEMBER 2020, 10.00 – 11.30 CET (9.00 – 10.30 GMT) Project implementation in all countries and at the transversal level have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Anecdotal evidence from many countries suggest that the pandemic…