Global brands, including Coca-Cola, Unilever and Vodafone offer African township residents a ‘lick of paint’ in exchange for turning their homes into advertisements
Top global brands accused over controversial 'painted home' adverts in Africa Sarah Bentley | 25th April 2012 News Coca-Cola Pepsi Advert Africa News Society Unilever Politics And Economics …
Development secretary Justine Greening is facing questions over UK involvement in a massive land-grab in Nigeria that is evicting local farmers from 300 square kilometres of fertile farmland to clear the way for a rice farm owned and controlled from the US and Canada. A 45,000-strong community faces landlessness and destitution.
Nigerian farmers face destitution from 300 sq.km land grab backed by UK aid Oliver Tickell | 28th January 2015 News Land Grabs Nigeria Africa Farming Corporations Development gassol-lands.jpg …
The 'New Alliance', backed by £600m of UK aid, is meant to improve food security, reduce malnutrition and lift people out of poverty, writes Aisha Dodwell. But it's all a huge con - delivering corporate welfare, attacking small farmers, enabling land grabs - and leaving a trail of poverty and human devastation. It draws praise from only a single review of its activities: its own.
Who's telling the truth about the New Alliance and farmers in African countries? Aisha Dodwell Global Justice Now | 15th January 2016 Activism Farming UK Africa Corporations Aid …
Africa's car battery recycling industry is anything but green, write Desirée García & Javier Marín on African Environment Day. Toxic emissions from the re-smelting of lead from old batteries is poisoning workers and nearby communities. And among the buyers of the lead are EU car companies, apparently indifferent to the death, disease and contamination they are financing.
Dirty business: Africa's unregulated lead battery smelting Desirée García Javier Marín | 3rd March 2016 News Recycling Africa Pollution Toxics Health jackson wanyama-former worker at the …
The anti-poaching conference in London today was disrupted by protests at the Botswana delegation - who call the indigenous Bushmen of the Kalahari 'poachers' and are forcing them into death camps.
Bushmen are not 'poachers' - wildlife conference protest The Ecologist | 13th February 2014 News Botswana Indigenous Peoples Africa Wildlife Trade bushman-woman.png The anti-poaching conference in …
Indonesia's move to bring in a two-year moratorium on new palm oil plantations to protect its remaining rainforests has seen agribusiness giants like Sime Darby switch expansion plans to Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia
Palm oil giants target Africa in 'land grab' following Indonesia deforestation ban Tom Levitt | 25th March 2011 News Palm Oil Africa Natural World Energy Food And Farming Indonesia palmoil.jpg Palm …
Higher temperatures cause declines in crop yields and 'economic welfare' which increases the risk of conflict
Climate change linked to civil war in Africa The Ecologist | 25th November 2009 News Climate Change Africa Conflict conflictafrica.jpg Africa needs investment in agriculture to reduce the risk of …
The Democratic Republic of Congo is to consult UNESCO, writes Melanie Gouby, over its wish to 'explore judiciously' for oil in Africa's first and most biodiverse National Park and World Heritage Site.
DRC Congo wants to develop Virunga's oil Melanie Gouby the Guardian Environment | 17th March 2015 News Oil Africa DRC Corporations Un hippos-virunga-cut.jpg The Democratic Republic of Congo is to …
Despite increased poaching threats, a difficult political situation, drought and climate change, Goldman Prize Winner Raoul du Toit has pioneered a new approach in community stakeholding to save the black rhino
Raoul du Toit: Saving Zimbabwe's black rhino Matilda Lee | 31st May 2011 Activism Natural World Rhino Africa Goldman Environmental Prize Raoul Du Toit Eco Tourism Wildlife 1picraoul_1_gadd.jpg …
Human rights violations have been reported at plantations in virtually all major tea producing countries, while tea growing itself has a profound effect on the local environment. William McLennan reports
Environmental damage and human rights abuses blight global tea sector William McLennan | 13th April 2011 News Tea Africa Food And Farming Pesticides billy-final-tea-image.jpg Tea being loaded in …
Children are learning to use stoves made from cow dung and termite mud in a battle to reduce consumption of timber for fuel
Atlantic Rising: energy-efficient cooking in Guinea Bissau Tim Bromfield | 23rd November 2009 Comment Atlantic Rising Biomass Energy Renewable Energy Africa fire.jpg Children are learning to use …
In an effort to address the joint problems of poverty and environmental degradation, Vivienne Westwood has joined up with the International Trade Centre for the launch of her second ethical range
Not charity but work: Vivienne Westwood's 'Ethical Fashion Africa' collection goes on sale Rosie Spinks | 9th August 2011 Ethical Living Fashion Society Green Living Africa Vivienne Westwood Ethical …
Green revolution approach of expensive fertilisers and seeds is failing and needs replacing with projects that prevent food waste, build resilience to climate change, and strengthen city farming
Worldwatch report attacks criminalising of seed saving and promotes agroecology Tom Levitt | 13th January 2011 News Agroecology Food And Farming Worldwatch Seeds Gm Biotech Africa …
The Gates Foundation - widely assumed to be 'doing good', is imposing a neoliberal model of development and corporate domination that's opening up Africa's agriculture to land and seed-grabbing global agribusiness, writes Colin Todhunter. In the process it is foreclosing on the real solutions - enhancing food security, food sovereignty and the move to agroecological farming.
Gates Foundation is spearheading the neoliberal plunder of African agriculture Colin Todhunter | 21st January 2016 News Africa Farming Corporations Development GMOs Seeds bill-melinda-cut.jpg The …
While the Gates Foundation and conservative politicians are bigging up GMOs and agribusiness, writes Colin Todhunter, a quiet revolution has been working its way across Africa. Agroecological farming, constantly adapting to local needs, customs, soils and climates, has been improving nutrition, reducing poverty, combatting climate change, and enriching farmland.
The tremendous success of agroecology in Africa Colion Todhunter | 21st November 2015 News Farming The Land Africa GMOs Climate Change Green Economy farm-africa-cut.jpg While the Gates Foundation and …
Hundreds of thousands of small-scale cocoa farmers in Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire will be forced to adapt or relocate by higher temperatures
Melting chocolate: climate change threatens West Africa's cocoa dominance Tom Levitt | 29th September 2011 News Chocolate Food And Farming Africa Cocoa Climate Change cocoatree.jpg Cocoa production …
Department for International Development (DfID) accused of failing to support long-term agricultural programmes and being obsessed with an 'industrial model' of food production
UK overseas aid ignoring small scale agriculture The Ecologist | 3rd February 2010 News Aid Africa Food And Farming Trade Agriculture Organic Farming ploughs_into_swords_01.jpg MPs have called on the …
Perhaps all the 'do gooders' busy forcing industrial models of agriculture onto poor but independent African farmers really do think they are helping them, writes Colin Todhunter. But if so they are deeply deluded. All they will achieve is the takeover of export-oriented agribusiness and GMOs, the destruction of agroecological farming systems, and a future of debt and landlessness.
Philanthropic colonialism: embedding agribusiness and GMOs into African agriculture Colin Todhunter | 8th April 2016 Comment Farming Africa GMOs Nutrition Health Finance rice-farmer-burundi-cut.jpg …
Overfishing along West Africa’s coast is endangering fish stocks and livelihoods, but local fishermen are not to blame.
Pirate politics Kate Eshelby | 1st February 2007 News Illegal Fishing Africa Fish Stocks Sustainability Fishing Crisis Food Security Natural World Pirate-politics_MAIN.jpg Overfishing along West …
How do the Maasai in northern Tanzania reconcile their values of reciprocity and social interaction with social distancing and the impacts of globalisation?
Covid-19 in the global community Francis Shomet Ole Naingisa | 27th April 2020 Comment Coronavirus Covid-19 Tanzania Indigenous Peoples Africa International 6032679829_ec6933320b_o.jpg How do the …
Unilever denies some female employees at its Rainforest Alliance-certified tea plantation in Kenya are subjected to sexual harassment. But Dutch research outfit SOMO paints a very different picture. Verity Largo and Andrew Wasley report
PG Tips and Lipton tea hit by 'sexual harassment and poor conditions' claims Verity Largo Andrew Wasley | 13th April 2011 News Tea Natural World Food And Farming Africa tea-main-image.jpg Unilever …
Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson, authors of Walking Thunder, explain why the survival of the elephant is critical for our own future
Among necessary giants: why we can’t afford to lose the elephant Cyril Christo Marie Wilkinson | 27th July 2011 Ethical Living Elephants Conservation Africa Travel Kenya Namibia Tanzania Samburu …
After six decades of oil exploitation, Nigeria's failure to provide for its citizens and develop its economy has exposed a hollowed-out state that benefits only the politicians and plutocrats, writes Joshua Goldfond. This is the environment in which Boko Haram has flourished, and as Nigeria proves incapable of effective action or reform, there's no end in sight to the nation's misery.
Nigeria's resource curse: Boko Haram and the poverty of plenty Joshua Goldfond | 10th June 2015 News Nigeria Africa Oil Politics War Society boko-haram-refugees-cut.jpg After six decades of oil …
Across Africa, laws are being rewritten to open farming up to an agribusiness invasion - displacing the millions of small cultivators that now feed the continent, and replacing them with a new model of profit-oriented agriculture using patented seeds and varieties. The agencies effecting the transformation are legion - but they are all marching to a single drum.
Land and seed laws under attack as Africa is groomed for corporate recolonization GRAIN AFSA The Ecologist | 12th February 2015 News Africa Food Farming Seeds Corporations Un Development …