October 2013
Watch this trailer for a powerful new documentary about how supposedly well-meaning Dutch and Swedish investments can result in land grabbing and human rights abuses in one small community in Mozambique.
October 2013
A powerful new documentary film “Seeds of discontent” was launched today that draws attention to the role of a Swedish investment firm, Dutch pension fund and Norwegian church endowment firm in land grabbing in Mozambique.
January 2013
A Haroon Akram-Lodhi
Around the world, rural social movements and urban food activist-citizens have proposed that food sovereignty has the potential to be the foundation of an alternative food system that can transcend the deep-seated social, economic and ecological contradictions of the global food economy.
September 2012
How do the treeplantations in Niassa province impair the rights of peasant communities? And what are the recommendations to the different actors involved?
August 2011
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.
March 2011
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."
July 2010
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.
March 2008
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 Otieno Ong'ayo examines some of these.
While the tensions and apprehension as a result of the post-election violence in Kenya subside, focus is now placed on the newfound relationship between the antagonists during the 2007 elections.
February 2008
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 analysis of the situation in Kenya
The media
It is sad at this moment in time to apply outdated tactics of muzzling the people who are expressing a democratic right.
May 2007
Antony Otieno Ong’ayo