Friday, August 31, 2012

Recent activities, spring 2012

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With the end of the 2011 - 2012 academic session it was, as usual, extremely gratifying to meet graduating students one last time. They wi...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Reframing R+20: zero ten twenty

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The media portal that seeks change, tve, has started to post a series of short films that follow the lives of 11 boys and girls born in diff...
Friday, June 1, 2012

Memories of the Sahel

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An excellent perspective of the food crisis in the Sahel from expatriate Africans from the region living in New York. Perspective is everyt...
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

UN food envoy decries 'shocking' conditions in Canada

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A hard-hitting article on what Oliver de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, has found on his mission to Canada, his f...
Friday, April 27, 2012

land matrix | land portal

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 The International Land Coalition has created a new website that compiles data about large-scale land deals around the world.  It is quite a...
Monday, April 23, 2012

resistance to land grabbing in Mali and Uganda

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An excellent expose of the impact of land grabbing in Mali: Followed by an excellent expose of the impact of land grabbing in Uganda:
Thursday, April 19, 2012

What does the rapid uptake of mobile money transfer in Kenya really mean for financial inclusion?

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An excellent analysis of mobile money transfer that pours cold water on the way that it is perceived by the global development institutions:...