How does it measure up?
How does it measure up?
The piles of concrete and twisted metal in the Tobago neighbourhood beside Dakar's international airport were home to Senegalese families until bulldozers arrived last month without warning.
1 April, 2015
Golden Veroleum and Golden Agri-Resource’s palm oil operations in Liberia are compounding poverty and food insecurity by taking land without community consent and making hollow promises of development benefits, says new report
In the Bagamoyo District, a lease of over 20.000 hectares of land is being secured for the next 99 years to a Swedish-owned company called EcoEnergy, for a sugar-cane plantation project supported by the African Development Bank, the International Fund for Agriculture and Development, and the Swedish International Development Agency.
Development, the Society for International Development's flagship journal, has published its first issue of the year entitled 'Local Land Grabs'.
A new report has been released to coincide with the forthcoming international conference on the global land grab to be held at IDS, University of Sussex.