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Land Grabbing in Kenya and Mozambique

Thorben Kruse posted Information | 19 April 2010

Over the past years vast tracks of agricultural lands have been taken over by foreign firms. Much of this land is located in African countries with fast increasing populations suffering hunger and under-nourishment. Such land grabbing has been happening largely outside public scrutiny. It has...

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Group: EU Working Group on Land Issues
Roundtable on Responsible Agricultural Investment (RAI)

Thorben Kruse created a new event | 6 April 2010

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The African Union Commission, Japan, and United States will co-host a round-table event in Washington, DC on Sunday, April 25 to facilitate a dialogue among government representatives, multilateral agencies, civil society, and the private sector to further explore progress and advancement of...

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Group: EU Working Group on Land Issues
Enhancing Agricultural Performance – An Inside Job

Capacity4dev Team created a new Article | 17 March 2010

In Zambia, the European Commission is set to play a secondary role, supporting the government’s Performance Enhancement Programme in agriculture and livestock. The driving force of the programme is to come from the ministries themselves.

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Foreign Direct Investment in the Agricultural Sector in Ethopia

Thorben Kruse posted Information | 23 February 2010

Ethiopia is chosen for this case study since the countries government puts a lot of effort on attracting FDIs in order to push agricultural and rural development. FDI flows in the agribusiness sector have increased highly in Ethiopia in the last 3 years (since 2006). As Ethiopia is among the most...

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Group: EU Working Group on Land Issues
Foreign Direct Investment in Land in Developing Countries

Thorben Kruse posted Information | 12 February 2010

On behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the GTZ Sector Projects “Land Management”, “Agricultural Policy and Food Security“ and the Future Initiative “AgroInvest” have published a new study about „Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Land in developing...

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Group: EU Working Group on Land Issues
Development Poliy Stance on the Topic of Land Grabbing

INTPA Administrator updated the Information | 5 January 2010

This paper analyses the battle for land in developing countries. It starts by giving a general overview of the need to increase investments in agriculture to counteract a rising number of people suffering from hunger. The growing demand for food, but also for raw materials to generate energy, leads...

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Group: EU Working Group on Land Issues
Development Poliy Stance on the Topic of Land Grabbing

Thorben Kruse posted Information | 8 December 2009

This paper analyses the battle for land in developing countries. It starts by giving a general overview of the need to increase investments in agriculture to counteract a rising number of people suffering from hunger. The growing demand for food, but also for raw materials to generate energy, leads...

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Group: EU Working Group on Land Issues
Rural Energy in developing Countries

Cesar Carmona uploaded a new Document | 13 October 2009

RuralEnergyIndevelopingCountries.pdf 310.25 KB

This chapter describes experience with and prospects for improving the technologies used to cook with biomass in several countries, as well as the development of clean, non-toxic cooking fuels. Progress in rural electrification—using both centralised, grid-based approaches and small-scale,...

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Project: European Union Energy Initiative (EUEI)
The Environmental Food Crisis

Gervase Poulden uploaded a new Document | 12 June 2009

environmental_food_crisis.pdf 15.13 MB

Publication Date: 2009 In 2008 food prices surged plunging millions back into hunger and triggering riots from Egypt to Haiti and Cameroon to Bangladesh. I n order to understand the factors underpinning the food crisis and to assess trends, UNEP commissioned a Rapid Response team of internal and...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development
Organic Agriculture and Food Security in Africa

James Morris uploaded a new Document | 24 September 2008

ditcted200715_en.pdf 463.72 KB

Publication Date: 2008 This study examines the relationship between organic agriculture and food security in Africa, particularly East Africa, which is where UNCTAD and UNEP have, through their joint Capacity-Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development (CBTF), have been implementing a...

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Group: UN Environment Programme - Environment for Development

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