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International Course on Governance of Landscapes, Forests and People: Deadline for Scholarships 20 October
Forested landscapes worldwide are increasingly integrated in global processes of trade, market development, resource exploitation and climate change. Site-based or community level approaches can no longer cope with these issues which exceed the local sphere of influence. Although landscapes are usually considered to be appropriate levels to negotiate land use options, they are rarely recognised as units of political- administrative decision making, hence do not have any formal place in decentralised structures of states.
Tanzania turns to drones to bring peace in bitter fight for land
By: Kizito Makoye
Date: September 8th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"The use of drones will help us to define the boundaries of plots of land on the ground with great accuracy"
Water shortage fuels conflict between herders, farmers in Laikipia
By Agencies, Citizen Digital
Published on 24 November 2015
It’s a hot, windy afternoon in Kiboya village. Dusty leaves swirl around William Ekidor, his wife Martha and their two sons as they sit under an acacia tree by the Kajunge dam, queuing with their animals for water.
Zambian women part of group to climb Mt Kilimanjaro
By: Linda Nyondo
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Zambia Daily Mail
A GROUP of African women including Zambians are next month expected to climb Mount Kilimanjaro to advocate for women’s land rights.
Action Aid communications officer Hellen Mwale confirmed the development in a statement in Lusaka recently.
Why Kampala holds single biggest growth opportunity for Uganda
By Astrid Haas, London School of Economics and Political Science and Paul Collier, University of Oxford
Uganda's economy has been growing steadily over the past decade. Like many other developing countries, its growth has benefited from a confluence of external events, including a sustained increase in commodity prices and partial debt relief.