Innovations in Access to Land: Land Grab or Agricultural Investment?
0Sanitation Too Often Overlooked in Developing Nations
0Cotonou, Benin: Le Chant D’Oiseau
0Triggering Development with Improved Education
0Getting to Market
By Bernard Pollack on August 4, 2010 in Africa, Asia, Central Asia, East Africa, Featured, Kenya, Nepal, North Africa, Photos, Sri Lanka, Sudan
0Giving Family Farmers a Bigger Voice and a Bigger Impact
By Bernard Pollack on August 3, 2010 in Africa, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Gambia, Guinea, Niger, Photos, Senegal, West Africa
0Large Scale Land Investments do not Benefit Local Communities
0Bernard Pollack, an expert on local labor movements and communications, is currently traveling across the continent of Africa with his partner Danielle Nierenberg BorderJumpers.org, meeting with farmers, community organizers, labor activists/leaders, non-governmental organization (NGOs), the funding and donor communities, and others.
His travel writing from Africa has recently been featured in the Montreal Gazette, the NC News Observer, the Omaha World-Herald, and the Des Moines Register.
He holds an M.A. in Political Management from The George Washington University School of Political Management and a B.A. from the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University.
His travel writing from Africa has recently been featured in the Montreal Gazette, the NC News Observer, the Omaha World-Herald, and the Des Moines Register.
He holds an M.A. in Political Management from The George Washington University School of Political Management and a B.A. from the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University.
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