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  Resource nationalism: Enabler or spoiler of effectiveness in 'new oil' Tanzania's petroleum sector?

  Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre, 2020

  A great deal of attention has been paid to the distributional aspects of resource nationalism in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, but less is known about its effects on the state’s capacity.
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  Resource warfare, pacification and the spectacle of ‘green’ development: Logics of violence in engineering extraction in Southern Madagascar

  Elsevier, 2020

  Bringing political ecology's concern with the critical politics of nature and resource violence into dialogue with key debates in political geography, critical security studies and research on the geographies and phenomenology of violence and warfare, this paper explores strategies ‘from above’ in relation to the establis
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  Producing localized commodity frontiers at the end of cheap nature: an analysis of eco‐scalar carbon fixes and their consequences

  Wiley Online Library, 2018

  There is no single ‘great’ commodity frontier whose exploitation under current socio‐technical conditions could fuel capital accumulation at the global scale. According to Jason Moore, this represents the ‘end of Cheap Nature’ and signals a terminal crisis for capitalism as we know it.
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  Energy subsidies, international aid, and the politics of reform

  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2017

  Energy subsidy reform is critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and tackling climate change. This paper sets out the evidence on the scale of subsidies and their impact. It then reviews the actions of donors in encouraging and supporting energy subsidy reforms.
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  Green power for Africa: Overcoming the main constraints

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017

  Inadequate power supply in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) means that only 37 per cent of sub-Saharan Africans have access to electricity. Those with access are prone to experience problems with regular power outages. In many sub- SSA countries, electricity access rates are decreasing because electrification efforts are slower than population growth.
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  Better farming practices for resilient livelihoods in saline and flood-prone Bangladesh

  Solidarités International, 2017

  According to the Climate Change Vulnerability Index 2015, Bangladesh is the first and most at risk country to the impacts of climate change. Aggravating climate conditions threaten crop production and now barely allow for small farmers living in the districts along the coast to live decently from their agricultural activities, which represent the main livelihoods in the area.
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  Marine protected areas (MPAs) in relation to fisheries management: challenges and experiences from developing countries

  Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association, 2014

  As pressure from human activities on the natural world intensifies, and as humans become more aware of their impact on the environment, our interest in and need for protection and planning for sustainable use of our environment has increased tremendously.
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  Combating poaching and illegal logging in Tanzania: voices of the rangers - hands-on experiences from the field

  GRID Arendal, 2017

  Poaching  of  wildlife  is  still  a  massive  problem  in  Tanzania.
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  A land grab for pulp- new mill project by Portucel Mozambique

  Environmental Paper Network, 2017

  This latest discussion document explores the plan by The Navigator Company to develop a new pulp mill in Mozambique. The Portuguese company, operating as Portucel Mozambique and with funding from the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, is acquiring huge areas of land for establishing eucalyptus tree plantations to supply the mill.
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  Real-time evaluation of Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative. Empowerment of indigenous peoples and forest dependent local communities through support to civil society organisations

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2017

  The Terms of References (ToR) of the present evaluation have the following objectives:

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