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SUSTAINABLE MARKETS – Strengthening capacity for advocacy in food systems of the poor (IIED)

Effective and progressive civil society movements are critical for tackling poverty and protecting the environment in low-income countries. Strengthening the capacity of citizens and advocacy...

UGANDA – Park Action Plans: Stories of Change from a community enterprise programme around Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda (IIED)

In Uganda, people are involved with wildlife crime because of human-wildlife conflict (HWC) or a lack of income earning opportunities. To help address these issues,...

SUSTAINABLE SANITATION – How small changes can make a big impact in achieving sustainable sanitation (Laia Gemma García, IIED)

Facebook guest blogger Laia Gemma García describes how the traditional pit latrine got an upgrade as part of a project in rural Tanzania. https://www.iied.org/how-small-changes-can-make-big-impact-achieving-sustainable-sanitation

TURKEY – Erdoğan’s “Please Sanction Me” Challenge (Burak Bekdil, BESA Center)

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, photo by Russian Presidential Executive Office via Wikimedia Commons The EU does not have the option of being indifferent to the antics of...

AFRICAN TRADE/AfCFTA – How the digitalization of African trade will help realise the AfCFTA (UNECA)

Participants at the 2020 edition of the African Economic Conference have been told that digitalization of trade across the continent can significantly boost free...

AFRICA – Hope for a more prosperous Africa beyond COVID-19 (UNECA)

Beyond the dark cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic is a silver lining of a more sustainably prosperous Africa.  This was the message from the...

AFRICA – Dealing with the micro- and macroeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on Africa (UNECA)

Experts agree that Africa’s governments will have to strike a balance between health, economic and social policy interventions in the coming months to mitigate...

CHINA/UIGHUR – China uses big data to select Muslims for arrest in Xinjiang: HRW (Al Jazeera)

A big-data program in China’s Xinjiang “arbitrarily selects” Muslims for detention, flagging behaviour such as wearing a veil, studying the Quran or going on...

AUSTRALIA/GOOGLE/FACEBOOK – In partial victory, Google and Facebook win Australia concession (Al Jazeera)

Google and Facebook Inc. won a key concession in Australia as the government unveiled details of a world-first law to force the digital giants...

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