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AFRASO Lecture Series: Interactions between China and Africa

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The AFRASO-Lecture Series started on the 7th of May 2013 with the first session on “Working and Living Together: Realities of Life for Africans in Asia and Asians in Africa”. This session gave some insight into the everyday life perspectives of the thousands of Africans and Asian...

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Debating “China in Africa” at the World Social Forum 2013

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At the World Social Forum 2013 in Tunis only one session dealt explicitly with the issue of “China in Africa”. Enda and CACID organized a session entitled “China and Africa: Commerce, Investment and Public Aid for Development.”

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Debating “Land Grabbing” at the World Social Forum 2013

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From March 26 to March 30, 2013, the 11th World Social Forum (WSF) took place in Tunis. In only three days, more than 50,000 participants visited over 1,000 sessions. The issue “land grabbing” was less present in Tunis...

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The Land Matrix celebrates its first anniversary – discussion of the major developments regarding African and Asian data

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 One year ago, the 26th of April 2012, during the Land and Poverty Conference organised in Washington by World Bank, the Land Matrix partnership launched the online database “Land Matrix” [http://www.landportal.info/landmatrix]. The main purpose was to encourage researchers, governments, citizens and companies to provide more data on land acquisitions.

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The Asian roots of cultural change in The Gambia

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In the last 3 weeks I have been conducting fieldwork in The Gambia and Senegal in the framework of the AFRASO project Asian development assistance in Senegambia. My focus is on development cooperation in the agricultural sector. And in the case of The Gambia, the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan) is one of the most important bilateral donors, particularly after 2005.

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