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26 November 2023
The Conversation
Getting climate funds to frontline communities may require rich countries and the UN easing control over how the money is spent.
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29 November 2023
African Arguments
Local communities are not beneficiaries in action on the climate and biodiversity crises. They are the experts we must learn from and support
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22 November 2023
AFSA
National Land Policy Study Reports on Senegal, Mali, Togo, Ghana & Cameroon. AFSA is delighted to launch a series of five national reports, within AFSA's Our Land is Our Life land rights initiative in these countries. These reports aim to: Examine Land Policies and Governance: They seek to understand the national land policies and governance
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30 November 2023
LUSA
Mozambican environmental associations are criticising "empty speeches" and fruitless summits on climate change, calling for a "complete boycott" of the UN summit (COP28) taking place from Thursday in Dubai, and suggesting an environmental tribunal. "Years and years of empty speeches at the variou
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14 November 2023
Bloomberg
While faucets in coastal Dakar barely trickle, an investment company uses Senegal’s only lake to irrigate crops it plans to send to Saudi Arabia.
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16 November 2023
Daily Maverick
It is estimated that Michiru Forest has now lost over 1,904ha, with most of these being home to indigenous tree species. It is also feared that other forms of biodiversity are rapidly disappearing.
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21 October 2023
African Arguments
Carbon credit projects across 20% of Zimbabwe may make profits for a UAE firm, but will it also benefit communities and the climate?
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09 November 2023
The Elephant
The traumatic legacy of British colonialism lingers in Kenya to this day, and this is why Kenyans were demanding an apology from King Charles.
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25 October 2023
Farmlandgrab
Elite Agro Projects plans to establish a wheat farm in Ethiopia, where it already operates a flower farm.
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24 October 2023
Mongabay
In the two decades since the Franco-British multinational Perenco established operations at Muanda, at the mouth of the Congo River, surrounding communities have suffered the loss of the natural resources they depend on for a living. Now, the company is bidding on two new oil blocks in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Local and international […]
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