Hanson Tamfu interviews AMY SULLIVAN, Limpopo Basin Focal Project

The water available in the Limpopo River basin, which stretches across Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe and Mozambique, is both in great demand and highly variable. Managing it effectively and to the satisfaction of all users is a challenge.

Dr Amy Sullivan is the project leader of the Limpopo Basin Focal Project.

Africa has contributed the least to climate change but the continent has suffered the most…

Nalisha Kalideen interviews FIRMINO MUCAVELE, from Eduardo Mondlane University

In the rural areas of Mozambique increasing numbers of families are growing their own food and lifting themselves out of poverty.

Over the last decade the country has reduced rural poverty by 15 percent through agricultural growth. But the industry is still technologically underdeveloped and food harvests are still not sufficient to sustain an increasing population.

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Interview with Letty Chiwara, UNIFEM Cross Regional Programmes Manager
ACCRA, Sep 4 (IPS) – As the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness draws to a close in the Ghanaian capital, gender activists are reflecting on the way ahead. Having successfully raised the visibility of gender equality and women’s empowerment on the Accra Agenda, attention [...]

ROME – Ines Alberdi has worked for over 25 years on gender issues and in politics.
She comes to the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) from her previous position as professor of sociology at Madrid University where she has taught political sociology and sociology of gender since 1993. Prior to that, she was director for research at the Centre for Sociological Research. Her main interest has been gender-based violence.

Birte Rodenberg, Policy Advisor of Action Against Aids, Germany.

The Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), a coalition of women’s groups, held a forum for international women’s organisations in Accra in the leadup to the High Level Forum. Birte Rodenberg, Policy Advisor of Action Against Aids in Germany, who participated in the forum, spoke to IPS.