Land & Environment

Oakland, CA - As a USAID International Engagement Conference for South Sudan gets underway in Washington DC tomorrow and Thursday (Dec. 14 and 15), a new report cautions against foreign land investments that are being promoted as a solution for development in the new nation.

On 5 November 2010 the president of the Republic of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos, authorised the minister of Mining and Industry to extend the terms of a diamond mining concession in Luanda Norte province, primarily to the benefit of his daughter Welwitschea José dos Santos, usually known as ‘

In late 2010, REDD - the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries - was caught red-handed in Liberia.

‘Tell no lies. Claim no easy victories!’ - Amilcar Cabral

Goldtooth expresses his misgivings about agriculture being included as part of the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD).