Fahamu (Oxford)
Website: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/
March 1
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Morocco: The EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement [analysis]
POLISARIO brings an action against EU's plunder before the European Court of Justice Read more »
November 2, 2012
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Africa: Food Sovereignty and the Global Feminist Struggle [analysis]
The current global food system, based on an agro-industrial model, has failed to ensure food security and resulted in profound negative environmental effects. La Via Campesina... Read more »
September 21, 2012
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South Africa: Contextualizing farm worker deaths in South Africa and Canada [opinion]
Capitalist agriculture is in crisis, as it marginalizes and brutalizes millions of farm workers who produce our food. The horrible accidents that claimed lives of farm workers in... Read more »
June 15, 2012
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Africa: New Film Sows Seeds of Freedom - African Farming Voices Challenge the GM Myth [analysis]
At the heart of the film "Seeds of Freedom" is the story of seed and its transformation from the basis of farming communities' agriculture to the property of agri-business. Read more »
May 25, 2012
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Africa: Groups Reject Foreign Investment in African Farming
This letter from African civil society critical of foreign investment in African Agriculture at G8 Summit was presented by Mamadou Cissokho, Honorary President of ROPPA, President... Read more »
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Africa: The Great Food Robbery Targets Africa - Devlin Kuyek [interview]
Who gets to eat and who doesn't is decided in a few rooms by boards of directors composed mainly of rich men. A handful of people in Northern countries deciding whether Africa is... Read more »
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Africa: Time to Recall the Land Grabbers [analysis]
People who just want to grow food and make a living from the land are being expelled, criminalised, and sometimes killed, to make way for land grabbers. It is nothing less than an... Read more »
April 6, 2012
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Africa: Five Challengers of the Neoliberal Jackboot [opinion]
Slowly, the South has tried to revive UNCTAD, whose policy framers have become a bit more aggressive in their defence of an alternative to neo-liberalism. Read more »
March 26, 2012
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Africa: Why Climate-Smart Agriculture Won't Work [opinion]
Much of the energy expended by official 'world-savers' - governments, policy wonks, multilateral institutions and the like - is devoted to devising news ways to cash in on the next... Read more »
December 16, 2011
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Africa: Biochar - Unfulfilled Promises in Cameroon [analysis]
Biochar is touted as a solution to climate change, soil degradation and low crop yields, despite scientific field trials disproving these claims. With Africa the focus of many... Read more »
November 18, 2011
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Africa: Cash-Crop Colonialism and the Attack On African Agriculture [analysis]
Evaggelos Vallianatos shows how cash-crop colonialism has undermined African agriculture. Now is the time for a return to indigenous food plants. Read more »
September 23, 2011
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South Africa: Land reform Green Paper Denounced as Inadequate
Mike Cowling finds that the first three pages of South Africa's land reform Green Paper seem to set the tone of what is to follow, by explaining what needs to be done without... Read more »
September 16, 2011
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Africa: Palm Oil Fuels Land Grabs in Africa [analysis]
By next year 'palm oil is forecast to be the world's most produced and internationally traded edible oil.' But as foreign investors descend on Africa to develop large-scale palm... Read more »
July 8, 2011
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Sudan: Understanding Land Investment Deals in Africa
The Oakland Institute takes a closer look at South Sudan's largest land deal to date - the granting of a 49-year lease of 600,000 hectares of land to US-based firm Nile Trading and... Read more »
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