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Knowledge, Technology and Society team blog: The new irrigation entrepreneurs: commerical horticulture in Masvingo
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Monday, 1 December 2014. The new irrigation entrepreneurs: commerical horticulture in Masvingo. This week, we are releasing the next video in the 'Making Markets' series. This time it focuses on vegetable production in Mavingo (if you’ve seen the other ones, you can skip the first 1 min and 30 secs, as it’s the same intro. The total length is 11 mins. Also, if your internet connection is slow, there’s a lower resolution version. The post was written by. Labels: Land and agricultural commercialisation.
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Cecil the lion: a lens on land, wildlife and elite politics in Zimbabwe | zimbabweland
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Tackling climate change: the contested politics of forest carbon projects in Africa. Struggle is not a destination, but a river that runs forever →. August 3, 2015 · 5:21 am. Cecil the lion: a lens on land, wildlife and elite politics in Zimbabwe. A lion called Cecil from Zimbabwe hit the headlines this week. He had been shot by a dentist from Minnesota. Including the UK PM David Cameron, and countless ‘celebrities’. The Zimbabwean government has demanded his extradition. The whole episode is for me a fa...
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Knowledge, Technology and Society team blog: January 2014
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Friday, 31 January 2014. 29 January 2014: China and Brazil in African Agriculture - news roundup. This news roundup has been collected on behalf of the. China and Brazil in African Agriculture (CBAA) project. For regular updates from the project,. Sign up to the CBAA newsletter. Gadco’s rice farming investments in Ghana. Ethiopia prepares 50,000 hectares of land for horticulture. Chinese company in Mozambique to address labour concerns. The China Road and Bridge Corporation has been given 15 days by the ...
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Knowledge, Technology and Society team blog: December 2014
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Thursday, 11 December 2014. Knowledge, Technology and Society blog will no longer be updated but you can read all the latest opinions from the IDS community on our website. This will be the last post to be published on this blog. The Institute of Development Studies. Now publishes all our members’ and guest bloggers’ posts directly onto our website. Business, Markets and the State in Development. Conflict, Violence and Development. Power and Popular Politics. The IDS Communications and Engagement Unit.
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Knowledge, Technology and Society team blog: November 2014
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Monday, 24 November 2014. Tobacco: driving growth in local economies. The rebound of tobacco. Production in Zimbabwe is striking. From a low in the mid-2000s of only around 48 million kgs, the last season produced 216 million kgs, almost hitting the levels of historical peak production 236 million kgs. Last season recorded exports of some US$450m. How does tobacco production, spread across so many farmers, affect local economies? Including many from the former farm compounds, and are sinking their profit...
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Struggle is not a destination, but a river that runs forever | zimbabweland
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Cecil the lion: a lens on land, wildlife and elite politics in Zimbabwe. Catch up on Zimbabweland →. August 10, 2015 · 5:04 am. Struggle is not a destination, but a river that runs forever. These lines come from a poem ‘. 8211; by Comrade Freedom Nyamubaya who has sadly died at the age of 55. Along with the loss of Chenjerai Hove. We have lost two greats of Zimbabwean literature; superb commentators on life and politics, and inspirations for many of us. On the Road Again. In ‘The Dog and the Hunter’, she...
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Knowledge, Technology and Society team blog: June 2014
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Monday, 30 June 2014. Forests for the future? Carbon forestry and climate compatible development in Mozambique. Following the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Bonn Climate Change Conference in Germany earlier this month, an Institute of Development Studies (IDS)-led project funded by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) examines the recent lessons they have learnt on how ‘ climate compatible development. PDF), the case studies focus on:. The debate around the global ...
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Knowledge, Technology and Society team blog: October 2014
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Thursday, 30 October 2014. STEPS América Latina at the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network. Between 13 and 15 October the Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network. Held its first workshop in Nairobi. The objective of the workshop, organized and funded by the Canadian International Development Research Centre, and supported by the University of Toronto and Kenya iHUB. Was to kick-start the construction of a research network to promote 'open science' for the Global South.
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The UK election, Africa and Zimbabwe | zimbabweland
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BRICS and development: new hubs of agrarian capital. Nutrition puzzles: the shit factor →. May 4, 2015 · 5:08 am. The UK election, Africa and Zimbabwe. How then are the various parties addressing ‘international issues’, and African and development issues in particular? On African Arguments, Magnus Taylor and Hetty Bailey. On the extreme pathologies hampering DFID’s work). What does this all mean for Africa and Zimbabwe in particular? The Tory grandees with post-colonial connections to ‘kith and kin’ in Z...
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zimbabweland | Debating Zimbabwe's Land Reform | Page 2
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Newer posts →. September 12, 2016 · 5:54 am. Zimbabwe’s political uncertainty continues. In Zimbabwe, a day not a week seems like a long time in politics. It is difficult to get a sense of perspective when so much is happening, and so fast. Just scanning the daily compilations made by the amazing Zimbabwesituation.com. What a service this has supplied since 2000! Is overwhelming, and being immersed in the day-to-day means that it is difficult to separate wood from trees. Movements and wider protests.
