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Irresponsible investment: AGRICA's broken development model in Tanzania
The Oakland Institute, 2015Kilombero Plantations Ltd (KPL) is a 5,818 hectare (ha) rice plantation located in the heart of the fertile Kilombero Valley, Tanzania. In addition to developing a large-scale rice farm, KPL works with local smallholder farmers through an outgrower model based on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) technologies.DocumentDead in the water - Ethical ownership and water management in the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global
Association for International Water Studies, Norway, 2015The world is facing a serious water crisis with increasing water scarcity and overuse globally. The demand for water resources is growing rapidly mainly due to industrial use, and beverage companies are one of the major industrial consumers.DocumentConfronting the ‘oil curse’: state–civil society roles in managing Ghana’s oil find
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015Ghana discovered large oil deposits at Cape Three Points, on its western coast, in 2007.With the discovery of additional oil it is anticipated that the oil sector will significantly boost the economy, which in turn will have a positive developmental impact.DocumentConsidering the relevance of peacebuilding within external interventions in Africa
Institute for Security Studies, 2015Critiques of peacebuilding have generally fallen within one of two categories – those critical of programming and impact but still believing that these flaws can be cured through increased expertise, technical skills and improved operationalisation and those critical of the conceptual validity of peacebuilding as a function of the power dynamics of the liberal world order.DocumentPower and influence in Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Africa
Institute for Security Studies, 2015Africa has been peripheral in approaches to international relations that have tended to focus on so-called ‘great powers’ or the ‘states that make the most difference.DocumentHomicide Monitor
Igarape Institute, 2015The Homicide Monitor is a data-driven data visualisation tool designed to show the distribution, dimensions and dynamics of homicidal violence in an interactive and accessible manner. Since homicidal violence is concentrated in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Monitor includes additional information at the national, state and city scale.DocumentA climate of conflicts?
Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2015Political violence correlates strongly with climate: Civil conflict risk is seven to ten times higher in dry and tropical climates than in continental climate zones. Yet, there is little evidence that climatic variability and change are important in understanding this pattern.DocumentA horizon scan of environmental drivers of poverty
Evidence on Demand, 2015This report presents the results of a rapid desk-based study of the environmental drivers of poverty, based on a review of peer-reviewed and grey literature for the last 10 years. The major non-climate environmental drivers of poverty are identified: biodiversity loss (at the global scale) and a variety of pollution and resource degradation issues at smaller scales.DocumentThe impact of crop raiding by wild animals in communities surrounding the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
Academic Journals, 2014Crop damage is a serious source of conflict in communities adjacent to protected areas. Data on crop raiding were collected through questionnaires in villages at different distances from the Serengeti National Park in northern Tanzania.OrganisationInternational Centre for Prison Studies (ICPS)
Since its foundation, the aims of the Centre have been to conduct research into prisons and imprisonment; to develop and disseminate a body of knowledge about the principles on which the use of imprisPages