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 ...
Eva-Maria Schreiber, a German Member of Parliament from the Die Linke socialist party has advised Tanzania not to sign the East African Community – European Union Economic Partnership Agreements (EAC –EU EPA). Speaking on 29th April 2019 in Dar es Salaam in an exclusive interview following her one-week visit to the country, Hon. Schreiber regards the EAC-EU EPAS dangerous as they jeopardize the social and economic de ...
PRESS RELEASE From 29th-30th May 2019 SEATINI Uganda in partnership with Diakonia Africa Economic Justice Program, Both ENDS, and Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung held a high-level stakeholder meeting on the Implications of the evolving trade and investment regime on EAC’s realization of the Sustainable Development Goals. The purpose of this meeting was to synthesize civil society positions on three key issues per ...
Allan Kalangi | May 2018 This article is an analysis of the factors that lead to the positive impact and spill over of community driven approaches to empowering communities facing negative consequences of hosting large land based investments in their localities. The article locates the Sustainability School approach in the global sustainable development agenda and the foundation of these approaches in scholarly wo ...
By Kasirye Samuel | Donnas Ojok May 2018 As humanity strives to attain freedom, especially that of expression, a perilous component in the name of hate speech is fast creeping in. In Africa, the vice has contributed to some of the darkest episodes of the continent’s history including the Rwandan genocide (1994) and Kenya’s post-election violence (2007/08), which claimed in short span approximately 800,000 and 1,2 ...
Allan Kalangi and Julius Kyamanwya | May 2018 Uganda is one of the new oil-rich states in the world having discovered huge commercial deposits of oil in its western Albertine graben. Against a huge power asymmetry, communities organise and speak up in an attempt to transform power relations and reclaiming justice in their struggle against the negative consequences of hosting large land based investments in their ...
By Kasirye Samuel | May 2018 The African continent is endowed with enormous renewable energy prospects, varying in type across diverse geographical expanses. To further harness this burgeoning potential, the East African Regional Office of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS) has installed a 25 Kilowatt hybrid system to cover up to 90% of its power needs from solar energy. The RLS is dedicated to contribute to sustai ...
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 ...