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Globalising Hunger
Globalising Hunger cover page
October 2011
Thomas Fritz

While the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) persists with its central focus of fostering competitiveness and exports of European agribusiness, it will continue to undermine small-scale farming and create greater food insecurity in the global South.

 

Is water the hidden agenda of land acquisition in Africa?
October 2011
P. Woodhouse and A. S. Ganho

Implicit in the global land grab is the potential for a major water grab. A study of sub-Saharan Africa raises concerns that  large-scale commercial agriculture could cause unforeseen but disproportionate impacts on access to water by small-scale producers.

Fighting corruption with the Water TAP plus A
August 2011
Satoko Kishimoto

Using research, workshops and local user's committies to help tackle corruption in the governance of private and public utilities - a case study from Kenya.

The Politics of Agrofuels and Mega-land and Water deals
June 2011
David Fig
Jun Borras
 Sofía Monsalve Suárez

The Procana Bioethanol project in Mozambique is a clear example of how agrofuel investments contribute rather than mitigate climate change, and are often accompanied by dispossession and impoverishment caused by landgrabbing.

The Coming Global Food Fight
March 2011
John Cavanagh
 Robin Broad

As anger mounts in response to rising global food prices, small-scale farms rooted in local markets are showing how to avert international disaster and lead the way to "food democracy."

Assumptions in the European Union biofuels policy: frictions with experiences in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique
July 2010
David Fig
Jennifer Franco
Lucia Goldfarb
 Les Levidow, Mireille Hönicke, Maria Luisa Mendonça

EU biofuels policy is based on the assumption that it will lead to greenhouse gas savings, energy security and rural development, however in-depth research in Germany, Brazil and Mozambique reveals fundamental contradictions between EU policy assumptions and practices in the real world.

Agrofuel Crops
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April 2010
Jennifer Franco
Lucia Goldfarb
David Fig
Luisa Mendonca
 Les Levidow, Mireille Hoenicke

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in developing agrofuels on a large scale as an alternative to fossil fuel. EU biofuels policy, in particular, assumes that the environmental impacts associated with agrofuels production will be largely beneficial. This study questions such...

Power-sharing and the implications for state restructuring in Kenya
March 2008
TNI
 Antony Otieno Ong\'ayo
While the move brokered by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for a coalition government under which the contending parties will share power has brought peace to Kenya, and has been widely welcomed, the initiative is not without its problems, especially in terms of governance. Antony...
The Kenya case and media bias
February 2008
TNI
 Antony Otieno Ong\'ayo
Antony Otieno Ong'ayo provides an in-depth analysis of the Kenyan crisis, sparked by rigged elections.

While the whole world is aware of the crisis is in Kenya, thanks to the international and local media, most of their reporting is accurate, however, there is need for an honest...

Khat chewing in the Horn of Africa
May 2007
TNI
 Antony Otieno Ong’ayo
 
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