Africa is being opened up like a tin of sardines to a new wave of resource extraction, writes Colin Todhunter. Masked under the soubriquets of 'investment', 'growth' and 'free trade', a handful of vast global corporations are systematically plundering the continent's mineral wealth and leaving desolation in their wake, backed to the hilt by that ever-faithful servant of capital - the UK government.
… The corporate scramble for Africa's minerals: Britain's new colonialism … Colin Todhunter | 14th July 2016 News Africa Mining Corporations War Economics … Western Sahara Morocco bou-craa-cut.jpg Africa is being opened up like a tin of …
From slave labour to armed conflict, our thirst for natural resources has created serious problems for Africa. Pádraig Carmody’s latest book attempts to unravel the moral morass, says Mark Newton
… The New Scramble for Africa Mark Newton | 9th May 2012 Reviews Books Reviews Africa Minerals Natural Resources Conflict … resources has created serious problems for Africa. Pádraig Carmody’s latest book attempts …
Two of Asia's three rhino species are 'critically endangered', writes David Tosh, yet the lion's share of rhino conservation resources is lavished on Africa. The reason is simple: Africa's rhinos generate more cash from tourism. But should this really be the point?
… Africa's rhinos grab the cash while their … Tosh | 2nd October 2015 Comment Mammals Asia Africa Conservation Finance Economics … rhino conservation resources is lavished on Africa. The reason is simple: Africa's rhinos …
The trade ban on rhino horn is not working, writes Keith Somerville. But non-lethally and sustainably harvested rhino horn can earn income to encourage breeders, pay rangers and anti-poaching teams, provide surveillance and supply wider benefits that will gain the support of people around parks, reserves and ranches.
… 2016 Comment Wildlife Trade Economics Africa Swaziland Conservation Hunting Farming … of people around parks, reserves and ranches. Africa's rhinos are seriously threatened by … or cocaine. Over the past nine years 5,940 African rhinos have been killed for their …
China has now overtaken the European Union as the largest new market for solar power, writes Paul Brown - as solar PV becomes one of the world's fastest growing industries - and one that's sure to keep on getting cheaper!
… 2015 News Renewables Economics Solar Wind EU Africa China Asia solar_leo_house_bipv-cut.jpg … but Asia and the US are now catching up fast. Africa, which has the most potential to … its possibilities - especiallin South Africa. While investment in small domestic …
What was NATO's violent intervention in Libya really all about? Now we know, writes Ellen Brown, thanks to Hillary Clinton's recently published emails. It was to prevent the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc, shaking off the last heavy chains of colonial exploitation.
… Why Qaddafi had to go: African gold, oil and the challenge to … | 14th March 2016 News Finance Economics Africa Libya War Politics USA France … creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from …
Two-weeks increase in food billionaires’ wealth is enough to fully fund East Africa hunger crisis response.
… | News Billionaires Oxfam Social Inequality Africa East Africa Climate Breakdown Economics … wealth is enough to fully fund East Africa hunger crisis response. Food inflation …
In her new book The Vandana Shiva Reader, the celebrated campaigner and scientist deplores the way in which the Green Revolution forced India's poorest farmers off their land, writes Colin Tudge. Now she fears even worse outcomes in Africa where a GMO-fuelled farming revolution is under way.
… Tudge. Now she fears even worse outcomes in Africa where a GMO-fuelled farming revolution … from on high of another Green Revolution in Africa - which indeed is already train. But … be true, and seen to be above all criticism. Africa's GMO revolution, courtesy of Bill and …
The 'Global Redesign Initiative', a project of the World Economic Forum, aims to replace UN-based intergovernmental decision-making with unaccountable 'multi-stakeholder governance' run by and for corporations, writes Margi Prideaux. What future for nature and people in this brave new world? Generate profits for investors, or face extinction or exclusion to the margins of existence.
… of the world (meaning large swathes of Africa and Asia) are woefully inadequate. But … reached out and colonized distant lands , Africa, Asia and Latin America have been a … More poignantly, it robs communities in Africa, Asia, South America and the Arctic of …
As investors flock to the resource-rich but still poverty-stricken African nation of Mozambique, Thembi Mutch warns that - as usual - it won't be the Mozambiquans who reap the multi billion dollar rewards of an economic boom in what remains the world's second poorest country......
… Thembi Mutch | 27th September 2013 News Africa Resources Economics Politics … the resource-rich but still poverty-stricken African nation of Mozambique, Thembi Mutch … from one of the smartest five star hotels in Africa. Dom Perignon champagne at $320 a …
Based on current performance tropical forests, the world's most biodiverse ecosystems, are set to be reduced to species-impoverished fragments by the end of the century, writes Simon Lewis. But it's not inevitable. Decisive action by the world's governments in Paris in December could secure desperately needed change.
… together: in the decade to 2011 some 62% of Africa's forest elephants were killed for … and Malaysia's forests is now moving into Africa, which up to now has had relatively low … A study of 80 forest commons across Asia, Africa, and Latin America showed forest was …
Climate breakdown risks a supercycle where the price of goods - including food - rises as supply breaks down. So who is going to pay?
… Editor’s Picks 0.41432800_1485252890_africa-drought.jpg Climate breakdown risks a … and revolutions, most famously across North Africa in the Arab Spring. The volatility of …
Revenues obtained from the often illegal extraction and supply of commodities such as timber and diamonds are directly bankrolling corrupt regimes and armed insurgency groups, and fund the purchase of weapons and other contraband goods that perpetuate cycles of conflict.
… across large swathes of South East Asia, Africa and Latin America. Logging concessions … rackets have since been uncovered in several African countries, including Liberia and the … also fuelled a number of deadly conflicts in Africa, particularly in Sierra Leone, Ivory …
Ann Pettifor has changed the world once; now she wants to do it again.
… After all, she was born in apartheid South Africa; she knows the world can change. … of the earth’. Later, she learned that South African gold was taken to build up the … an idealist. She was born in apartheid South Africa; she knows the world can change. …
Robin Maynard tells the Ecologist why he is trying to encourage environmental NGOs to have the courage to move beyond a politically correct stance on issues of population growth and really engage with the big questions......
… inevitable. Two million women in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and other parts of the Arab … of parents has already been born (70% of Africa's population is between 15-30 years of … least humans. Dr Eliyah Zulu, director of the African Institute for Development Policy based …
Conventional economic analyses of trade tend only to discern the flows of money, writes NICK MEYNEN. But by also considering biophysical metrics - such as material and energy flows, and embodied water and land - ecological economists can identify the asymmetric flows of resources obscured by the apparent reciprocity of market prices.
… academic or activist groups from Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia worked together … bonanzas as in South America and parts of Africa between 2000 and 2008, or perhaps 2012, …
The struggle for collective rights unites all Indigenous peoples from North America to Palestine, writes Sarah Marusek - as does their common narrative of resistance to colonialism, imperialism and capitalism.
… of the liberation of Palestine, from South Africa to India to North America. The struggle … "Israeli Jews - especially those from North Africa and the Middle East - can also be an …
Peter Mandelson is 'intensely relaxed' about growing inequality, but he shouldn't be. It's the result of a 'trickle up' economy which perpetuates and fosters injustice, violence and ill health, writes Global Justice Now, and corrodes democratic societies at their very foundations.
… there were 288 million people in sub-Saharan Africa living on less than $2 a day (205 … improvement in poverty rates in sub-Saharan Africa since 1981. Other continents have done …
'Sharpe’s favoured alternative to neoclassical economics is a form of evolutionary economics: when it comes to the energy transition this notion is deeply flawed.'
… a just transition except in relation to South Africa (see below). For him, shifting to … Transition Energy Partnership led by South Africa at COP26 in 2021, which offered to … power instead; if we can do some more South Africa-style deals to support large emerging …
Economics claims to be a science - yet it fails to engage with the world's only real economic actors - people, not theorems. It's time to rethink economics, write David Boyle and Andrew Simms, and ask the revolutionary question: 'What if ... ?'
… Comment Economics Green Economy yam-market-africa.png Economics claims to be a science - …