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Displaying 791 - 800 of 3363Paramount Chiefs welcome chiefdom farms in Port Loko
The Resident Minister for North West, Madam Isata Abdulai Kamara, District Agriculture Officer, Charles A. Bangura, and 18 chiefs from 13 chiefdoms in Port Loko on Tuesday 25th February 2020, held a one day high profile consultative meeting with the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry at the administrative headquarters in Port Loko. The District Agriculture Officer, Charles A. Bangura welcomed the Minister’s delegation and gave an overview of the purpose of the ministerial visit.
Sime Darby Plantation completes sale of Liberia operations PLANTATIONS
PETALING JAYA: Sime Darby Plantation Investment (Liberia) Pte Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sime Darby Plantation Bhd (SDP), has fully disposed of Sime Darby Plantation (Liberia) Inc.
The disposal of 100% equity interest to Mano Palm Oil Industries Ltd was completed on Wednesday for a cash consideration of US$1, plus an earn-out payment to be determined by the average future crude palm oil (CPO) price and future CPO production of SDP Liberia in 2022.
The earn-out consideration will be payable quarterly over a period of eight years, commencing from April 2023.
Reconnecting with nature in the shadow of war
Woman and her children in Timor-Leste. In a country where historic conflict has drastically impacted the environment and community dynamics, CI is helping to spark dialogue between local community members and government officials to promote peace through conservation agreements. (© Conservation International/photo by Lynn Tang)
This is the second blog in our series on environmental peacebuilding, which chronicles CI’s growing role in this emerging field of research. Today’s post focuses on our case study in Timor-Leste.
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We Say the Land is Not Yours: Breaking the Silence Against Forced Displacement in Ethiopia
Over the past six years, the Oakland Institute has been at the forefront of exposing the social, economic, and environmental impacts of foreign land grabs in Ethiopia.
The Philippine mining clampdown that wasn´t
On February 2, 2017, Philippine Environment Secretary Gina Lopez, who has the full backing of the country’s controversial president Duterte, announced the closure of 23 large-scale mining operations. Two weeks later, on February 14, she announced the cancellation of 75 large-scale mining contracts, as a
Radbout Universiteit
According to the Dutch university information guide Keuzegids Universiteiten 2020 (for Bachelor's programmes), Radboud Unversity is the best traditional, general university in the Netherlands. Two programmes have received a Top Programme designation, nine programmes are deemed the best in their field by the Keuzegids.
Report: Risk & Resilience: Advancing Food and Nutrition Security in Nigeria through Feed the Future
This report examines the challenges and opportunities of Feed the Future, the U.S. government’s global hunger and food security initiative, working in the complex political, economic, environmental, and cultural context of Nigeria. With the initiative moving into its second phase, adding resilience as a strategic objective and including more fragile target countries like Nigeria, Feed the Future needs to evolve its model to meet the needs of the world’s most at-risk populations.
MOYA urges youth to focus on agriculture
Young people should focus on agriculture, said the Minister of Youth Affair (MOYA), Mohamed Orman Bangura. According to the International Labour Organization data in 2019, the estimated youth unemployment rate in Sierra Leone was at 84.9% and 85.9% in 2018. The Ministry of Youth and the World Food Program (WFP) recently signed an MOU to encourage youth a agriculture project. One of the opportunities the Minister highlighted was through agriculture the economy would stabilize in chiefdoms and districts. He also added agriculture will create jobs for the youth.
SOCAPALM, Groupe BOLLORE et Groupe SOCFIN, au Cameroun : Communiqué de suivi du PCN français
Les PCN français, belge et luxembourgeois ont été saisis le 3 décembre 2010 par un collectif de quatre ONG dont l'association Sherpa. Le PCN français, désigné chef de file, a examiné la saisine puis il a publié un Rapport le 3 juin 2013 et a conduit une médiation entre le Groupe Bolloré et Sherpa qui a abouti à un plan d'action par la Socapalm.