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	<description>Africa speaks about Africa</description>
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		<title>Bulletin 133 &#8211; August 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FOCUS OF THIS ISSUE A great deal of attention is focused on Africa today, but hidden beneath all the talk about fighting poverty there are ambitious plans to exploit its enormous wealth. This widely heterogeneous continent, home to almost 900 million people, artificially divided into 53 states by European colonialism, is now under siege in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrmbulletin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1463043&amp;post=109&amp;subd=wrmbulletin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Africa, my Africa!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to this special edition of the WRM bulletin looking at Africa through the eyes of Africans. To many people in the world, Africa is an exotic continent filled with dances and songs of both people and birds. Africa is a big continent. Its land mass covers 31 million square kilometres and takes up 20% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrmbulletin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1463043&amp;post=229&amp;subd=wrmbulletin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The rights of indigenous peoples in Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to analyse the question of indigenous rights in Africa without engaging with the question of statehood, and it is impossible to address the latter without considering its dubious origins. The colonial enterprise in Africa, marked by domination and annexation of territory, was masterminded by Leopold, the Belgian monarch, and Bismarck, the German [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrmbulletin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1463043&amp;post=227&amp;subd=wrmbulletin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s Voices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Mr. Chairman, Honourable Delegates; We, women representatives from different organisations in Africa, representing farmer&#8217;s, Community Based Organisations, Landless Peoples Movements, Pastoralists and Youth, from Western, Southern and Eastern Africa, meeting in Nairobi from June 16-18, 2008, to share our diverse experiences on women&#8217;s access, control and ownership of land/natural and productive resources in Africa and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrmbulletin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1463043&amp;post=225&amp;subd=wrmbulletin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>African Friends of the Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Members of FoE Africa from Ghana, Togo, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Nigeria, Mauritius, Tunisia and Swaziland met for five days in Accra, Ghana reviewing issues that confront the African environment. A particular focus was placed on the current food crisis and agrofuels on the continent. FoE Africa groups deplored the characterisation of Africa as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrmbulletin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1463043&amp;post=223&amp;subd=wrmbulletin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Central Africa: Management of protected areas and participatory approaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Co-management: a situation in which two or more social actors negotiate, define and guarantee amongst themselves a fair sharing of the management functions, entitlements and responsibilities for a given territory, area or set of natural resources.&#8221; (Borrini-Feyerabend et al., 2000) [1] In the countries of Central Africa, numerous programmes have been undertaken since 1990 to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrmbulletin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1463043&amp;post=221&amp;subd=wrmbulletin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oil, Environment and Disaster Economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simple lessons are not necessarily easy to learn. For example: oil is a non-renewable and limited resource (1). Oil and conflicts appear to be twins in today&#8217;s world. When people think of oil, in general terms, what come to mind are ‘progress and development&#8217;. Thus, people speak of oiling the wheel of progress. Today, however, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrmbulletin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1463043&amp;post=218&amp;subd=wrmbulletin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Green Revolution for Africa: disaster in the making</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. -Confucius Introduction A recent World Bank report caused ripples around the world because it blamed agrofuel production in the United States and Europe, speculative trading and food export bans as the main reasons for the steep rise in global food prices. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrmbulletin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1463043&amp;post=216&amp;subd=wrmbulletin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tree Plantations in Africa: A co-ordinated onslaught to grab what remains of Africa&#8217;s natural capital?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past For hundreds of years, it seems the African continent has been viewed as a kind of take-out convenience store by countries in the North &#8211; at first mainly for rare and exotic commodities like gemstones, precious metals, ivory, plants and slaves; and later for more basic items such as minerals, food, timber [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrmbulletin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1463043&amp;post=213&amp;subd=wrmbulletin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Logging in Liberia: reform process or business as usual?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberia has just emerged from a civil crisis. The sanction on the exportations of Liberian Timber was lifted in 2006 by the United Nations Security Council UNSC. The timber industry, which provided substantial revenue for government, is closed pending the completion of a forestry reform process. But unemployment is at an alarming rate. There is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wrmbulletin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1463043&amp;post=211&amp;subd=wrmbulletin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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