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Recent Posts
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- Foreign Farmland Acquisition – Controlling ‘Land Grabs’
- Land Grabs aren’t all that bad?
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rural development Archive
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Land Grabbing
I’m about to start with my Honour’s research thesis to complete my studies in Utrecht. I chose the topic ‘land grabbing – opportunities and threats to less economically developed countries and regulatory measures and policies for effective control’. One of the lingering effects of the food price crisis of 2007–08 on the world food system is the [...] -
Refugee Settlement
After one week in a Refugee Settlement I’m now back in town, Kampala. I have been staying close to the border to Congo, in the west of Uganda near Lake Albert. There is a refugee settlement which hosts about 20,000 refugees from Sudan, Congo, Rwanda, Somalia and also some internal displaced people from Northern Uganda.I was [...] -
It is getting closer
While I am still busy working in the Asian Rural Institute (ARI) in Japan (for the last two weeks), my trip to East Africa, however, is approaching. Thanks to, first of all, ARUWA (Asian Rural Welfare Association), my family and my supporters in Germany, this trip has been made possible. To me, it is a wonderful [...]