International Dialogue & African Perspectives

Adapting Through Agroecology: Why Morocco Should Prioritise the Restructuring of its Agriculture Sector to Prepare for The climate crisis

Like most countries of the global South, Morocco is disproportionately affected by the climate crisis relative to how much it contributed to creating it. Although Morocco contributes only 0.18 percent to global greenhouse-gas emissions each year, current predictions of its future feature increased temperature, decreased rain regularity, sea-level rise and a feedback effect on both forest-cover and fish populations.

By Hazim Azghari

Smarter than Climate-Smart: Agroecological Strategies for Food Security in a Changing Climate

Interview

Million Belay is the coordinator of the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa. For more than two decades, he has immersed himself in issues of sustainable agriculture and the rights of local communities to seed- and food-sovereignty. Perspectives spoke to him about the specific challenges of food security on the continent.

By Million Belay

AFRICA AT +2°C: ANTICIPATED CLIMATIC IMPACTS

Transforming Africa's Food Systems to Withstand a +2 °C World

Analysis

Africa is a continent rich in land, fisheries, natural resources and biocultural diversity, all of which are critical assets for a well-functioning food system. Despite this, Africans remain some of the most food-insecure citizens on the planet.

By Busiso Moyo and Dr Laura Pereira

Perspectives #02/2019: Ecological and Social Transformation in Africa: Rethinking food systems for a +2°C world

This special edition of Perspectives was compiled with the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s North Africa offices and the Transform Africa project. It is dedicated to the emerging conversation of alternative approaches that challenge the historical bias towards the industrialisation of agriculture and the food system as the main strategy to address food insecurity while preparing for a +2°C world.

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The Chronic: Who Killed Kabila

So, who killed Kabila? The new issue of the Chronic presents this query as the starting point for an in-depth investigation into power, territory and the creative imagination by writers from the Congo and other countries involved in the conflict.

Perspectives #01/2019: Robbin’ the Hood: Inquiries into State Capture

This edition of Perspectives tackles questions of state capture, and how the concept can contribute to understanding and strengthening democracies across Africa. Our contributors also open the possibilities that emerge when “state capture” is released from particular institutional settings and national boundaries.

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International Dialogue & African Perspectives

Adapting Through Agroecology: Why Morocco Should Prioritise the Restructuring of its Agriculture Sector to Prepare for The climate crisis

Smarter than Climate-Smart: Agroecological Strategies for Food Security in a Changing Climate

Transforming Africa's Food Systems to Withstand a +2 °C World

Perspectives #02/2019: Ecological and Social Transformation in Africa: Rethinking food systems for a +2°C world

The Chronic: Who Killed Kabila

Perspectives #01/2019: Robbin’ the Hood: Inquiries into State Capture

Could a Different Version of State Capture Be a Good Idea in South Africa?

How to Steal a City

Greasing the Wheels of State Capture: Corporations, Secrecy and Profit

It Was Not Just State Capture, But the Conquest of South Africa’s Soul