Rural development

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28 August 2011

Don't Cut Down Mabira - Donors

The European Union's top envoy to Uganda, Ambassador Roberto Ridolfi, has thrown his weight behind the chorus against a proposal by President Museveni to hand out part of Mabira rainforest to sugar manufacturer-SCOUL to grow sugarcane.

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Aug 9, 2011

World Bank stops funds for Cambodia over evictions

Aug 9 (Reuters) - The World Bank said on Tuesday it had stopped providing loans to Cambodia and would not resume lending until the government did something to help hundreds of families facing eviction from land around a lake in the country's cap

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14 August 2011

Four months to save the world's last great wilderness from 'oil curse'

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11 Aug 2011

Rick Perry to run for president; climate deniers cheer

The climate skeptics can finally get excited about the 2012 election: Rick Perry, their candidate of choice, is about to officially

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12 August, 2011

Local stakeholders crucial to end the fight over coal in Kutai National Park

Kutai National Park in East Kalimantan made the headlines in 2009 as a conservation area in danger of being split apart for its enormous deposits of high-grade coal.

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June 20, 2011

Silence of the Lambs

SLATE: On a typically warm, muggy evening in Phnom Penh earlier this year, I asked a twentysomething British woman for directions to Titanic, a restaurant overlooking the Tonle Sap River.

"Why?" she asked.

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Jul. 26 2011

This U.N. Program Should Have Taxpayers Seeing REDD

While the Obama administration’s push to regulate domestic greenhouse gas emissions has mostly stalled, the worldwide fight for carbon suppression continues.

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25 July 2011

Ethiopia gives farmland to foreigners while thousands starve

A Survival investigation has uncovered alarming evidence that some of Ethiopia’s most productive farmland is being stolen from local tribes and leased to foreign companies to grow and export food – while thousands of its citizens starve during the devastating drought.

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July 9, 2011

Jagdeo frets about non-release of Norway funds

President Bharrat Jagdeo continues to fret about the non-release of the Norway climate funds, and has decided to push ahead with the project to give Amerindians electricity using funds from the treasury.
The solar panel project, which President Jagdeo yesterday said would cost US$2.5 million, was expected to be financed through the five-year forest-saving deal with Norway.

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Jul. 8 2011

Will African Farmland Yield the Elusive Alpha for Portfolios

Looking for a 270% return on investment over the next five years? Emergent Asset Management, a London hedge and private equity fund, says it has the perfect investment vehicle for you. Farmland in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Don't Cut Down Mabira - Donors

World Bank stops funds for Cambodia over evictions

Four months to save the world's last great wilderness from 'oil curse'

Rick Perry to run for president; climate deniers cheer

Local stakeholders crucial to end the fight over coal in Kutai National Park

Silence of the Lambs

This U.N. Program Should Have Taxpayers Seeing REDD

Ethiopia gives farmland to foreigners while thousands starve

Jagdeo frets about non-release of Norway funds

Will African Farmland Yield the Elusive Alpha for Portfolios

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Don't Cut Down Mabira - Donors

World Bank stops funds for Cambodia over evictions

Four months to save the world's last great wilderness from 'oil curse'

Rick Perry to run for president; climate deniers cheer

Local stakeholders crucial to end the fight over coal in Kutai National Park

Silence of the Lambs

This U.N. Program Should Have Taxpayers Seeing REDD

Ethiopia gives farmland to foreigners while thousands starve

Jagdeo frets about non-release of Norway funds

Will African Farmland Yield the Elusive Alpha for Portfolios

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