The ABN 2008 1st Quarter Newsletter | ABNnews_04_08.pdf (628 Kb)
The latest edition of the ABN Newsletter contains news from the network as well as interviews with some of Africa's leading environmental activists. |
Africa’s Wealth of Seed Diversity and Farmer Knowledge | Africas Wealth of Seed.doc (32 Kb)
Africa’s Wealth of Seed Diversity and Farmer Knowledge – Under threat from the Gates/ Rockefeller “Green Revolution” initiative.
A statement signed by 70 African civil society organisations from 12 African cointries at the World Social Forum 2007.
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Biofuels in Ghana | biofuels_ghana.pdf (252 Kb)
This is the story of how a Norwegian Biofuels company took advantage of Ghana's traditional system of communal land ownership, and current climate and economic pressures, to claim and deforest large tracts of land in Kusawugu, Northern Ghana, with the intention of creating "the largest Jatropha plantation in the world". |
Wilderness Trail Reflections | wilderness_trail.pdf (366 Kb)
Participants at the ABN strategic planning meeting in the Baviaan's Kloof in South Africa reflect on their experience and inspirations gained during a two day wilderness trail.
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The Network Approach: Concepts and Applications | Network_AngelaCordeiro.pdf (32 Kb)
This paper explores the analytical study of Social Network Theory as a way to assess the efficacy of a network through analyzing the interactions between the different nodes in a network. |
Burnout : A Few Perspectives | Burnout.pdf (60 Kb)
This article looks at reasons for burnout and offers suggestions for energy management to prevent mental, emotional and spiritual burnout. Katja Abbott |
An African Call for a Moratorium on Agrofuel Developments | ABN_Agrofuels_Africa.pdf (85 Kb)
The agrofuels ‘revolution’ is geared to replace biodiversity-based indigenous farming systems with mono cultures and genetically engineered agrofuel crops to benefit multinational corporations that already control the international market for agrofuels.
The Moratorium calls for:
• A moratorium on new agrofuel developments in Africa
• No agrofuel targets for governments in Europe and the rest of the world
• An international moratorium on agrofuel exports until the true social and environmental costs can be assessed and disaster averted.
We invite organizations from across Africa and the rest of the world to sign up to this moratorium call. Download the full moratorium here. To sign up, please send your name, organization and country to: agrofuelsafrica@gmail.com |
A new scramle for Africa's remaining collective territories: the trends, tensions and challenges
TERRITORY &_LAND CLAIMS IN_SUB-SAHARAN_AFRICA_WORKING_PAPER1.rtf (178 Kb)
This study seeks to interrogate the present status of collective, cultural, communal, territorial and environmental rights in Africa. It is aimed at citizens of Africa and Africa’s development partners to stimulate debate and seek solutions on the subjects of re-claiming territory rights and building community interest in land.
By Korir A Singoei & Adam Hussein Adam
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Agrofuels in Africa – impacts on land, foods and forests | ABN_Agrofuels_Africa.pdf (1930 Kb)
Case studies from Benin, Tanzania and Uganda by the ABN, Envirocare - Tanzania, Nature -Tropicale - Benin, Climate and Development Initiatives - Uganda, Matongo Mundia and Clement Chipokolo - Zambia
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