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in title, tags, annotations or urlAlex de WAAl, "SAviors And Survivors" - 0 views
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Mamdani sees the Save Darfur campaign as representing a refracted version of the moral logic of the War on Terror, with the arabs in both cases branded as evil, except this time because they are genocidaires instead of terrorists.  The campaign to bring international troops to Darfur and to indict the Sudanese leadership at the International Criminal Court, and the willful ignorance about the successes of the african engagement with Darfur and the changing situation on the ground, are all portrayed as the product of this agenda
IPS - Filling the Granaries in Burkina Faso | Inter Press Service - 0 views
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New, high-yielding varieties of the staple crop have been developed at the country’s Institute for the Environment and agricultural Research (INERa) as part of a drive to improve food security in this landlocked West african country.
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Both Kabré and Kaboré were introduced to Bondofa when they became members of Burkina Faso’s National Union of Seed Producers (UNPSB) two years ago. The UNPSB was established in 2006, and coordinates production and marketing activities as well as acting as an interface between its 4,000 members and the government.
AfricA UnchAined: South AfricA's ExtrActive Elite Are sitting on A Powder Keg - 0 views
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These days it can seem that South africa has been turned upside down. Relying on apartheid-era legal tactics, prosecutors have said they are charging 270 miners arrested after the melee, not the police officers who fired the bullets, with the murder of their colleagues.
Most AfricAn LeAders Not MAking Promised Investments in Agriculture » TripleCrisis - 0 views
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Unfortunately, the tone at the aU summit sometimes echoed the agribusiness-led New alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, initiated by the G8 club of wealthy nations in 2012, and less so the voices of african farmers themselves.
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Of particular concern are food prices. Maize prices doubled, despite a decent harvest last year. This was partly the result of the currency devaluation, even though Malawi does not import maize. The country does import fertilizer, which jumped in price in domestic currencies.
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She called on africa’s leaders to invest in smallholder farmers. “We have the potential to feed the world when we are given the necessary support.”
Beyond elitism: towards labour-centred development | openDemocracy - 0 views
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Conceiving of development in this way gives rise, however, to a fundamental paradox. The poor are to be forced to partake in an economic system that is based upon their exploitation and oppression. The way neo liberal and statist thinking gets round this paradox is to conceive of these exploitative and oppressive relations as developmental opportunities rather than impositions.
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Without his intervention we would literally never have achieved our democracy. But now that we did Biko’s name has often been used to  to buttress all kinds of essentialist, nativist discourses – to attack and besmirch opponents and shut down debates. The Platform for Public Deliberation has asked  achille Mbembe, one of the world’s leading thinkers on the postcolonial condition in africa, to deliver a public lecture on Black Intellectual Traditions and Democratic Thought, from Fanon To Biko.
allafrica.com: africa: Continent is an accident Waiting to Happen (Page 1 of 1) - 0 views
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In this way africa in this century provides a greater potential for strife and conflict as an important mode of resolution of contentious issues. Kenya is definitely neither the worst nor the last case for the basket. That is why we should worry.
A HumAnitAriAn DisAster in the MAking Along the ChAd-CAmeroon Oil Pipeline -- Who's WAtching? | World | AlterNet - 0 views
allafrica.com: Nigeria: Nepad and Challenges of Charting Development Strategies - 0 views
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Adedeji further disclosed thAt it is now widely Acknowledged thAt the current globAl turbulence AccentuAted by the finAnciAl And bAnking turmoil which is reminiscent of the GreAt Depression of the 1920s And the 1930s, including the recent upheAvAl in NigeriA 's bAnking sector, "is the fAilure of corporAte governAnce.."
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Governance, in this reading, seems to be a catch-all term that applies to everything and yet means nothing. Neoliberal economics was about opening economies to the efficiency of the market, and now when the market fails corporations are given the same diagnosis as governments. Now, who will incent governance by the corporations? The World Bank? The OECD? The Paris Club?
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Arturo EscobAr: A post-development thinker to be reckoned with | Simon Reid-Henry | GlobAl development | The GuArdiAn - 0 views
A world in trouble: drought, wAr, food, flight - 0 views
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