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Current Status of Agriculture and Future Challenges in Sudan
No full textUrbanisation and long-lasting civil wars and conflict mean that the demographic pattern in Sudan is changing drastically. Nevertheless, 60%–80 % of Sudanese engage in subsistence agriculture. Agriculture remains a crucial sector in the economy as a major source of rawmaterials, food and foreign exchange. It employs the majority of the labour force, and serves as a potential vehicle for diversifyingthe economy. However, no rigorous studies have explained productivity in this sector inrelation to food security. The situation has worsened because agriculture in particular has been neglected sincethe advent of oil production in the early 2000s. Moreover, Sudan’s agricultural growth has been unbalanced, with the majority of irrigated agriculture concentrated in the Centre and ahuge disparity in development indicators between the best- and worst-performing regions. Thus, studies show that the vast majority of Sudanese are reported to be food insecure, especially internally displaced persons and in conflict regions such as Darfur, Kordofan and other regions
Illicit Flows and African Security
No full textContents: Introduction / Maria Lignell Jakobsson -- Introduction / Iina Soiri -- Speech / Carl von der Esch -- Trafficking panel -- Trafficking and Smuggling in Human Beings / Helené Lackenbauer -- Soldiering Shaky Grounds: Sierra Leonean Ex-Militias as Local Threats and Global Security Providers / Maya Mynster Christensen -- Connecting Conflict Zones to Global Markets: the Role of Trafficking Networks / Koen Vlassenroot -- Undocumented Migrants in West Africa / Christian Vium -- Small Arms panel -- Small Arms and Light Weapons Proliferation in Africa: Monitoring, Diagnosis and Response / James Bevan -- Maritime Trafficking and the African Coastline: Threats, Challenges and Policy Options / Hugh Griffiths -- Diversion of Weapons and Ammunition in Africa: Peace Operations as a Contributing Factor / Eric G. Berman -- Obstacles to Small Arms Control in the Gambia / Niklas Hultin -- Illicit Goods panel -- Drug Related Organised Crime as a Driving Force to Disrupt States in Africa -- Stewe Alm -- Central Marginality: On Critical States and Cocaine Connections / Henrik Vigh -- Illicit Trade in Consumer Goods and Normally Licit Products / Karl Lallerstedt -- How Trafficking Flows Redraw the Sahara-Sahel Map of Territories / Laurence Aïda Ammour -- Final Words / Maria Sjöqvist</p
Ebola exhausts health systems : more resources are needed
No full textEpidemics and institutional responses to them reveal the strengths and weaknesses of health systems. They also often engender and reflect existing political, economic and social tensions whenever and wherever they occur. This policy note outlines some of acute and chronic political and social conditions that have facilitated transmission and continue to pose a challenge for community and government responses to Ebola. It also highlights the significance of building health systems to avert and address future health crises
Africa information on the Internet
No full textContents: Search engines -- Social media -- Link collections -- Language -- Evaluation of sources -- References -- Web resources</p
Periodicals
No full textContents: News Reporting -- Development and aid issues -- Scholarly journals -- Older newspapers and periodicals on microfilm, in digital or printed form -- References -- Databases and other web resources</p
Official publications
No full textContents: Main groups of official publications -- Official publications on the Internet -- National statistical agencies -- National banks -- References -- Web resources</p
Literature searching and searching for facts
No full textContents: Part 1 Literature searching -- Bibliographies, article indexes and journal collections -- Databases and library catalogues -- Digital archives, web portals and link collections -- Part 2 Searching for facts -- Country sources -- News services -- Subject related information -- References -- Subject related databases -- Web resources</p
Diasporas, Development and Peacemaking in the Horn of Africa
No full textExiled populations, who increasingly refer to themselves as diaspora communities, hold a strong stake in the fate of their countries of origin. In a world becoming ever more interconnected, they engage in 'long-distance politics' towards, send financial remittances to and support social development in their homelands. Transnational diaspora networks have thus become global forces shaping the relationship between countries, regions and continents. This important intervention, written by scholars working at the cutting edge of diaspora and conflict, challenges the conventional wisdom that diaspora are all too often warmongers, their time abroad causing them to become more militant in their engagement with local affairs. Rather, they can and should be a force for good in bringing peace to their home countries. Featuring in-depth case studies from the Horn of Africa, including Somalia and Ethiopia, this volume presents an essential rethinking of a key issue in African politics and development.CONTENTS: Introduction: Diasporas for peace and development - Petri Hautaniemi and Liisa Laakso -- PART ONE: Contextualising the Horn of Africa and the diaspora -- 1. Diaspora and multi-level governance for peace - Liisa Laakso -- 2. Regional political history and the production of diasporas - Guenther Schlee -- PART TWO: Case studies from the Horn of Africa -- 3. Rebuilding Somaliland through economic and educational engagement - Markus Virgil Hoehne and Mohamed Hassan Ibrahim -- 4. The Somali diaspora in conflict and peacebuilding: the Peace Initiative Programme - Mahdi Abdile -- 5. The 2007 delegation of the Muslim diaspora to Ethiopia - Dereje Feyissa -- 6. The Ethiopian diaspora and the Tigray Development Association - Bahru Zewde, Gebre Yntiso and Kassahun Berhanu -- PART THREE: European approaches to diaspora engagement -- 7. Interaction between Somali organizations and Italian and Finnish development actors - Petra Mezzetti, Valeria Saggiomo and Päivi Pirkkalainen -- 8. Approaches to diaspora engagement in the Netherlands - Giulia Sinatti -- 9. Norwegian collaboration with diasporas - Rojan Ezzati and Cindy Horst -- Afterword - Petri Hautaniemi, Liisa Laakso and Mariko Sato</p
China and India, "rising powers" and African development : challenges and opportunities
No full textIn this report, the challenges and opportunities arising from the growing ties between two key “Rising Powers,” China and India, and Africa are more fully explored. This trend has given rise to speculative, exaggerated and ideological responses and a mixture of anxiety and hope. What is needed is an interdisciplinary political economy study to investigate the ways in which global, regional and national linkages in the relationship impact on the prospects of sustainable development in Africa. The necessity for this is underscored by the growing influence of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in reshaping the world.In this frame, the focus is on the nature of the shift in China’s and India’s strategic vision of Africa in terms of politics, ideology and economic development. This shift impinges on trade and investment and, in turn, the scope for inducing structural economic change in the context of colonial and postcolonial tensions. Comparative observation of countries in Eastern and Southern Africa, particularly Ethiopia in the former, illustrates their capacity to cope with the new powers. This is a critical aspect of the continent’s complex interplay with states and institutions within and beyond its borders. Ultimately, African nations have to individually and collectively confront the challenges and opportunities stemming from their evolving relationships with these Rising Powers