By Gerald Businge on November 24, 2011
African governments, change, climate change, contractual commitments, development, Environment, ethiopian government, future prospects, global water crisis, half a million, harm, IIED, lake turkana, land, Land Acquisitions, land deals, news, paper, pastoralist, Report, Study, today, water issues
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News Release: A paper published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development warns that African governments are signing away water rights for decades with insufficient regard for how this will affect millions of local users, including fishing, farming and pastoralist communities. The water rights often feature in the growing number of large land […]
By Gerald Businge on February 15, 2011
Africa agriculture, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, International Institute of Environment and development, Land Acquisitions, Land grabs Africa, r. Camilla Toulmin
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Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire and leading philanthropist has come under attack by civil society organizations for his remarks that seemed to justify a phenomena that has been termed as land grabs in Africa. The Director of the International Institute of Environment and Development Dr. Camilla Toulmin wrote an open letter to Bill Gates expressing […]
