"Land, Power, and Custom" explores the implications of the controversial 2004 Communal Land Rights Act, criticized for reinforcing the apartheid power structure and ignoring the interests of the co…
WFP is governed by the WFP Executive Board, which consists of 36 Member States. The organization is headed by an Executive Director, who is appointed jointly by the UN Secretary General and the …
Women Initiative for Development and Environmental Protection (WIDEP), formerly known as Environment and Development Action Plan for Women (EDAPW) is a non Governmental Organization (NGO) which was…
This recipe book is an outcome of the cassava flour production and utilisation workshop organised by the Justice, Development and Peace Commission (JDPC), as an interest group training and demonstr…
This recipe book is a proceeding from the soyabeans utilization workshops held in different locations with the women farmers under the Diocesan Agricultural Development Project (WIA unit). It is ho…
Under the guidance of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Ghana has carried out profound structural adjustment of its economy to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) over…
The future of off-reserve timber resources in Ghana is uncertain. Off-reserve timber production decreased from 95 million m3 - representing 80 percent of the totally harvested volume - in 1996 to 3…
Inspired by women's struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization o…
Almost as soon as they can walk, small girls go with their mothers and older sisters to the well or river. The tin they carry grows bigger as they get older, starting out no larger than a fruit jui…
Extrait de la couverture : "Increasing recognition of the interaction between poverty, and resources and environmental degradation has led to interventions that put more emphasis on working with lo…
Protecting our environment is one of the biggest issues facing our planet today. But how do we solve a problem that can seem overwhelming-even hopeless? As Diane MacEachern argues in Big Green Purs…
In the face of extreme weather events, desertification, and a rise in sea levels, governments and communities around the world increasingly recognize that the need to mitigate and adapt to climate …
Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940. In 1960, she won a Kennedy scholarship to study in America and earned a master's degree in biology from the University of Pittsburgh and becam…
This case study, commissioned by International Alert, examines the governance of natural resources in São Tomé and Príncipe by focusing on the management, oversight and transparency mechanisms o…
In South Africa, reports on progress towards the development of a genuinely post-apartheid society invariably spell out the benchmarks of housing, education, health and water provision as indicati…
A report in the Sida Studies series. "Mind the gap please", warns well-articulated, friendly although somewhat metallic sounding voice when passengers are about to leave or enter the trains on the …
The last few decades have seen food insecurity as an emerging crisis that has bedeviled many African countries. While many post-colonial African governments have widely recognized the role of agric…
"South African agriculture has always been ideologically contested, because of its relationship with controversial land ownership issues. This book takes the question of farm workers' fortunes beyo…
Climate change is increasingly being recognised as a global crisis, but responses to it have so far been overly focused on scientific and economic solutions. How then do we move towards more people…
The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunitiescaptures the debate about how to go forward and…