Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA-16/17/Inf.11.1
Session: Sess. 16
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2016Mauritius, Kenya, Zambia, Gambia, Mali, Burundi, Germany, Guinea-Bissau, Eswatini, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Comoros, Cameroon, Rwanda, Tanzania, Senegal, Chad, Gabon
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsSeptember, 2016Seychelles, Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Malawi, Somalia, Madagascar, Central African Republic, Eswatini, Ghana, Djibouti, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Africa
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksSeptember, 2016Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone is one of the least developed countries in the world and is still recovering from a civil war that ended in 2002. Increasingly, the Sierra Leonean government seeks to attract foreign investors through providing opportunities for large-scale land leases for the development of agribusiness. This has triggered a rapid transformation process that poses a considerable threat to food security and social stability. Despite being a pilot country for the implementation of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure, there is no real change on the ground as yet.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksAugust, 2016Sierra Leone
Policy Brief
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchSeptember, 2016Sierra Leone
Following the financial and food crisis in 2008 the phenomenon of land grabbing through large-scale investments in land leading to forcible displacement of rural population, increasing their food insecurity and disregarding Human Rights became a hot topic on the global agenda. At the same time it became clear, that more investments were needed into the agricultural sector to increase food security and secure agricultural productivity.