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[18/06/2013] Regional Communication Officer (Nairobi)
Procasur Corporation is a global organization specialized in harvesting and scaling-up homegrown innovations. The organization’s mission is to foster local knowledge exchange to end rural poverty. By sharing innovations through customized local knowledge- management tools and methodologies, the organization connects global institutions with local talents, providing the structured learning platforms necessary to spread innovation. Procasur has facilitated learning...
[18/06/2013] African Agricultural Growth Corridors and the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. Who benefits, who loses?
This brief report looks at how governments, international finance institutions and global corporations are collaborating in major new projects in Africa (currently in Mozambique and Tanzania) to reorder land and water use and create industrial infrastructure over millions of hectares in order to ensure sustained supplies of commodities and profits for markets. The Corridors concept first emerged at the World Economic Forum and a number of major corporations are...
[17/06/2013] Good News– Bangladesh: UK Accepts Complaint over Coal Mine
British company GCM Resources was dealt a serious blow today as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) agreed to consider complaints regarding severe human rights violations associated with the company’s planned coal mine in Bangladesh. GCM wants to open a massive open-pit coal mine in Phulbari in the north-west of Bangladesh, displacing up to 220,000 people and threatening the Sundarbans, one of the world’s largest remaining mangrove...
[13/06/2013] Global consultation reinforces CIARD in making agricultural knowledge accessible and useful for smallholders
Representatives of national, regional and global organisations attended a Global Consultation in May 2013 at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Addis Ababa where they endorsed the CIARD movement and agreed on a new focus to support innovation in smallholder agriculture. The partners reaffirmed their commitment to enlarge the movement, reinforce efforts to make agricultural knowledge more easily accessible and enhance its...
[13/06/2013] The deadline of the Online Discussion on Legal Pluralism in Madagascar is extended.. Join the debate until June 23, 2013!
  Legal pluralism in Madagascar: can customary and statutory law be reconciled to promote women’s land rights? Online discussion, 3-23 June 2013   Due to the good response of the land community to this important issue, the deadline is extended: This discussion is open until 23 June 2013! The discussion is facilitated on the Land Portal by experts from FAO, ILC, Landesa and the Observatoire du Foncier in Madagascar...
[13/06/2013] Cambodia: Land Titling Campaign Open to Abuse
(New York) – “A land measuring and titling campaign launched and financed by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen lacks transparency and accountability and could leave thousands dispossessed from their land. On June 11, Hun Sen announced that the campaign would be suspended until after national elections on July 28. Human Rights Watch called on Cambodia’s donors to insist that the program be reformed into a professional and apolitical process, or cancelled...
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