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Chinese trade and investment and the forests of the Congo Basin
Since 2000 and the implementation of China’s ‘going abroad’ policy, mainland Chinese state-owned and private companies have significantly increased their interests in the resources and investment opportunities of the Congo Basin, bringing new opportunities as well as potential social and environmental costs. This report is a synthesis of some main findings of preliminary scoping studies conducted by CIFOR and partners in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo and Gabon. It focuses on how Chinese trade and investment in the forestry, mining and agricultural sectors might relate to effects on forests and forest-dependent communities in the region. All studies were conducted under the CIF...
Expulsions
Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, according to Saskia Sassen. They are more accurately understood as a type of expulsion—from professional livelihood, from living space, even from the very biosphere that makes life possible. This hard-headed critique updates our understanding of economics for the twenty-first century, exposing a system with devastating consequences even for those who think they are not vulnerable. From finance to mining, the complex t...
Le commerce et les investissements chinois, et les forêts du bassin du Congo
Depuis lan 2000 et la mise en uvre de la politique dexpansion internationale de la Chine, lintérêt des entreprises chinoises dÉtat et privées pour les ressources et les possibilités dinvestissement dans le bassin du Congo a considérablement augmenté, générant de nouveaux débouchés mais aussi de potentiels coûts sociaux et environnementaux. Ce rapport synthétise les principaux résultats des études de cadrage préliminaire réalisées par le CIFOR et ses partenaires au Cameroun, en République démocratique du Congo et au Gabon. Il se concentre sur les possibles liens entre le commerce et les investissements chinois dans les secteurs forestier, minier et agricole et ...
Will Africa Feed China?
"In Will Africa Feed China?, Deborah Brautigam, one of the world's leading experts on China and Africa, challenges the conventional wisdom that the Chinese are leading the great African land grab. Her eye-opening analysis sheds new light on the myths and realities of China's evolving global quest for food security"--
Expulsiones
La economía global no se expande sin consecuencias: creciente desigualdad y desempleo, cada vez más poblaciones desplazadas o encarceladas, destrucción de la tierra y del agua. Se trata de dislocaciones socioeconómicas que no pueden ser explicadas con las herramientas tradicionales de la sociología, en los habituales términos de "pobreza" e "injusticia". De acuerdo con Saskia Sassen, esas dislocaciones se comprenden con mayor precisión si se conceptualizan como tipos de expulsiones: "En las últimas dos décadas, dice la autora, se ha presenciado un fuerte crecimiento de la cantidad de personas y empresas expulsadas de los órdenes sociales y económicos centrales de nuestro tiempo". ...
Ausgrenzungen
Eine klare und harte Kritik der Wirtschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts Zunehmende Ungleichheit, krasse Einkommensunterschiede, Flüchtlinge, Zerstörung von Land, Wasserknappheit: Die aktuellen Verwerfungen in der globalisierten Welt können nicht mehr mit den üblichen Begriffen von Armut und Ungerechtigkeit verstanden werden. In ihrem neuen Buch schlägt die renommierte Soziologin Saskia Sassen vor, dass man sie viel besser als Ausgrenzungen verstehen muss: aus dem Berufsleben, dem Wohnort, aus der Biosphäre. Erst dieser gemeinsame Gesichtspunkt macht eine luzide politische Analyse möglich, welche die grundlegende Logik und den Zusammenhang dieser scheinbar getrennten Effekte sichtbar macht.
The context of REDD+ in the Democratic Republic of Congo
DRC has committed to reduce its emissions effectively, efficiently, and equitably from deforestation and degradation (REDD+). The country experiences complex relationships between drivers, agents, and institutions of deforestation nationally. The REDD+ policy arena is influenced by both governmental and non-governmental actors whose number have increased in the policy arena over the years; however, weak coordination among these actors remains an issue. Since 2009, the DRC has announced several reforms relating to land tenure, land-use planning and agricultural policy, to create an institutional environment that motivates the implementation of REDD+ in the DRC. By 2019, none of these reforms ...
The context of REDD+ in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Drivers, agents and institutions
Reviewing the conditions in which the Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) mechanism is being established in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is part of Component 1 of the Global Comparative Study on REDD+ (GCS-REDD) being conducted by the Center for International Forestry Research. The overall aim of this global study is to provide decision-makers, practitioners, donors and the scientific community with reliable information on the dynamics of national actions related to the REDD+ mechanism. Discussions on REDD originally seemed to focus on the construction of a global structure and the establishment of a multilateral instrument to replace the Kyoto ...
