"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
“The CAP is a 50 billion euro contradiction of the EU’s commitment to help put developing world agriculture back on its feet, and will remain so under today’s reform plans. Farm subsidies of this magnitude will always produce distortions,” warned the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, in response to today’s CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) reform proposals from the European Commission.
The politics of policy underlying transnational commercial land deals in Africa will be the subject of the forthcoming global land grabbing conference from April 6 – 8, 2011 at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex, Brighton, (UK).
UXBRIGE - Eco-farming could double food production in entire regions within 10 years while mitigating climate change, according to a new U.N. report released Tuesday in Geneva.
Food Security, Good Governance, ‘Land Grabbing’, Agriculture and hunger. Mr. Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, answers to all the questions made by Afronline and other four African newspapers – Sud Quotidien (Sénégal), Les Echos (Mali), L’Express de Madagascar (Madagascar) and Addis Fortune (Ethiopie).
Food Security, Good Governance, ‘Land Grabbing’, agriculture and hunger. Mr. Olivier De Schutter, Special Rapporteur on the right to food for the Human Rights Council of the U.N., answers to all the questions made by Afronline.org and other four African newspapers – Sud Quotidien (Sénégal), Les Echos (Mali), L’Express de Madagascar (Madagascar) and Addis Fortune (Ethiopie). The exclusive interview will be published in five reviews – on the Italian weekly magazine Vita non Profit too – and newspapers on August 17. It will be on www.afronline.org in the full version on the same day, with a special cartoon by Damien Glez.
Ory Okolloh, the Executive Director of Ushahidi , is from Kenya but currently lives in Johannesburg. Her blog is "outlet for her opinions. While it is primarily focused on Kenya, she reserves to write about whatever she wants."
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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