PART ONE: CHALLENGING THE GREEN REVOLUTION IN AFRICA

Africans Face Competing Visions of Agricultural Development at a Critical Juncture

Richard Jonasse, Food First Blog

Richard Jonasse 04/13/2010

"EPAs Will Undermine Democracy in Africa"

Patricia Handley interviews YASH TANDON, Ugandan political economist.

CAPE TOWN, Apr 8 , 2010 (IPS) - The current course of the talks on economic partnership agreements (EPAs) is particularly destructive for low income African countries and may contract democratic space in such countries even further.

Compiled by Rick Jonasse. 01/07/2010

CARBON MARKETS:

Sinking Feelings About Storing Carbon Emissions on the Farm

By Nicholas Kusnetz, December 10, 2009

Climate legislation says we can stop global warming, improve our soils and help our farmers all at once. Not so fast.

Richard Jonasse 12/09/2009 

AAAGRrrr! #18

Could failure (in Copenhagen) be the best outcome?

Morning Star | Friday 27 November 2009

Alan Simpson

Over the next couple of weeks we will see a level of political frenzy let loose on the international stage. Ministers will try desperately to salvage something from the crushed expectations of the Copenhagen summit. ...

AAAGRrrr! # 17

Compiled by Richard Jonasse

Legitimating common property in Africa and the Nobel Prize

Korir Sing'Oei  2009-11-10, Pambazuka News Issue 457

Compiled by Richard Jonasse 10/06/2009

International Financial Institutions, African Agriculture and Global Trade:

New undemocratic "Washington Consensus" won't fix global crisis, state over 630 groups from 104 countries

October 29th, 2008

Richard Jonasse 09/24/2009

Mamadou Goita Interview: Farmers are central to the success of any African Green Revolution

 

Africa: The Continent And the End of Hunger

New Book, "Food Rebellions," by Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel with Annie Shattuck

http://allafrica.com/stories/200907160985.html

Compiled by Richard Jonasse, 07/03/2009 World Bank Group Establish Agriculture Finance Support Facility with $20 Million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Contribution

compiled by Richard Jonasse October 2009

Africa seeks financial compensation for climate change