Tag: agriculture
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Trade Liberalisation Kicked Away African Development Ladder
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram in IPS 8 May 2024 Africans have long been promised trade liberalisation would accelerate growth and structural transformation. Instead, it has cut its modest production capacities, industry and food security. Berg helped sink AfricaThe 1981 Berg Report was long the World Bank blueprint for African economic reform. Despite lacking support in theory and…
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Dissenting Voices at Nairobi Soil Health Forum Over Increased Fertilizer Use
By Isaiah Espisu in IPS, 9 May 2024 As the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit convened in Nairobi to review the progress made in terms of increasing fertilizer use in line with the 2006 Abuja Declaration, experts, practitioners, activists, and even government officials pointed out that accelerated fertilizer use may not be the magic…
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Farmers’ Protest in India Reignites: A Struggle for the Future of Food and Agriculture
Colin Todhunter in Dissident Voice, February 18th, 2024. // In 2021, after a year-long protest, India’s farmers brought about the repeal of three farm laws that were intended to ‘liberalise’ the agriculture sector. Now, in 2024, farmers are again protesting. The underlying issues and the facilitation of the neoliberal corporatisation of farming that sparked the…
