Gaza will be in the shadow of famine as long as we cannot plant our land | Israel-Palestine conflict

Gaza will be in the shadow of famine as long as we cannot plant our land | Israel-Palestine conflict

Last week, a ceasefire was announced after two years of genocide in Gaza. The bombs have stopped falling, but the devastation remains. The majority of homes, schools, hospitals, universities, factories, and commercial buildings have been reduced to rubble. From above, Gaza looks like a grey desert of rubble, its vibrant urban spaces reduced to ghost…

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Africa: Black History Month – the Scramble for Africa, Partitioning Lives and Land

Africa: Graduated, Now What? Survey of Young Africans Shows Degrees Don’t Always Land Them a Job

Study hard, get your degree, and then step confidently into a stable, well-paid job. That’s long been the assumption about how to secure a livelihood: in neat, predictable stages. But it is increasingly out of touch with reality. Secure jobs are no longer guaranteed after obtaining a tertiary qualification. Up-to-date and reliable data on graduate…

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Africa: Black History Month – the Scramble for Africa, Partitioning Lives and Land

Africa: Documenting Killings and Disappearances of Land and Environmental Defenders

Every year, Global Witness works with partners to gather evidence, verify and document every time a land and environmental defender is killed or disappeared. Our methodology follows robust criteria, yet undocumented cases pose challenges when it comes to analysing data Global Witness documents killings and long-term disappearances of land and environmental defenders globally. In partnership…

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Africa: Black History Month – the Scramble for Africa, Partitioning Lives and Land

Africa: Wildfire Disasters Are Increasingly in the News, Yet Less Land Is Burning Globally – Here’s Why

Worldwide, an estimated 440 million people were exposed to a wildfire encroaching on their home at some point between 2002 and 2021, new research shows. That’s roughly equivalent to the entire population of the European Union, and the number has been steadily rising – up 40% over those two decades. With intense, destructive fires often…

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CIO Faith Burn takes up new role at Land Bank

CIO Faith Burn takes up new role at Land Bank

Faith Burn, chief technology and operations officer of the Land Bank. Technology executive Faith Burn has been appointed as chief technology and operations officer (CTOO) of the Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank). Established in 1912 and reconstituted in 2002, the Land Bank is a wholly government-owned agricultural development finance institution,…

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