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Eric Smaling

Eric Smaling

Eric Smaling is Professor of Sustainable Agriculture, University of Twente, and Senator for the Socialist Party (SP) in the Netherlands.

Priorities for agricultural development in Africa

We were not able to agree in Copenhagen, the FAO Summit after the 2008 food crisis did not get us anywhere either, and yet the conference ‘It’s Down 2 Earth’ thinks we should look at agriculture and climate change in an integrated fashion!? Four suggestions are given here that serve both purposes for Africa.

Eric Smaling: Help! De hulp helpt. Of niet?

Het duurde twee jaar maar dan heb je ook wat: het WRR-rapport over ontwikkelingshulp is verschenen. De titel (Minder pretentie, meer ambitie) doet wat vreemd aan, want aan ambitie heeft het Nederland zeker niet ontbroken de afgelopen decennia.

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