By SUSAN NAKACWA and FAITH LUMONYA As people around the world recognised and celebrated World Environment Day 2021 we wondered why efforts to address the climate crisis are not yielding any major victories. We believe that the missing link in ongoing climate actions is the non-recognition that climate change is a social issue. Climate action must be linked to the social justice struggle and center those ...
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NYERERE RESOURCE CENTER SUMMER SCHOOL – CO-OPERATISATION OF SMALL PEASANT PRODUCTION AND VILLAGE LEVEL DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE
In the extant development literature, small peasant production has been considered backward, inefficient, unproductive and a brake on development. Borrowing from the development trajectory of the developed countries of Europe, it is argued that small production is destined to disappear with the march of large-scale agriculture and industrialization. Yet peasant production persists in many African countries in spite o ...
Analysis: Liberation, Self-reliance and Marxism – the Tanzanian Way of Socialism
By Joachim Abunuwasi Lugansya Mwami | January 2018 2018 mark several anniversaries whose significance for the critique of capitalist society is hardly to overestimate. It is the 170th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto in February 2018, and it would have been Karl Marx’s 200th birthday in May 2018. Joachim Abunuwasi Lugansya Mwami about Marxism as the ideological core of a developmental strategy emerged in Tan ...
Interview: Creating Employment through Climate Adaptation
Interview with Fazal Issa (ForumCC) | Broadcasted by Deutsche Welle Swahili Program | April 2017
In this radio interview, Fazal Issa, ForumCC’s Programme Officer, tells Deutsch Welle’ (DW) Swahili service how it is planning to encourage agricultural and solid waste management practices that are not only climate-friendly, but will likewise enable them make an income in the process.
In November 2016, the Nyerere Resource Centre (NRC) organized a short course training on “Financialisation of Land and Ecology”. After the training, Prof. Carlos Castel-Branco from Maputo sat down with Prof. Issa Shivji of NRC to discuss the pitfalls of raising Public Debt and what Financialisation of the world economy means.
Published by NAPE | July 2016
The third issue of the weekly newsletter discusses the impacts of a planned oil refinery for affected communities in Hoima / Uganda. Read more ... ... Published by NAPE | July 2016
The second issue of the Community Green Radio Weekly Round Up has been released by NAPE. Read more ...
... Published by NAPE | June 2016
As a way of keeping the public informed about what happens on the Community Green Radio, NAPE has launched a short weekly publication. Read more ... ...Short course training: “Financialisation of Land and Ecology”
Newsletter: Community Green Radio Weekly Round Up No 3
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