In an update to our article last month, the National Association of Professional Environmentalists of Uganda was successful in pressuring the government to protect the valuable Mabira Forest Reserve from sugar cane development.
West Africa Advisory Board member Nnimmo Bassey, of Environmental Rights Action, discusses why he believes that the latest Gates/Rockefeller initiative will deepen the problems faced by African farmers
The last few weeks in Uganda have been marked by a protest to protect the Mabira Forest Reserve from a sugarcane plantation and the World Bank’s decision to finance the Bujagali Dam on the Nile River by Lake Victoria.
Greengrants has been funding grassroots groups involved in a campaign to stop illegal gas flaring in the Niger Delta of Nigeria for years. Despite a precedent-setting court decision, Shell Oil continue with the practice.
Greengrants grantees NAPE and Save Mabira Crusade organize a protest to protect the Mabira Forest Reserve from a sugarcane plantation. While the protest turned violent, the government is now slowly moving towards protection of this vulnerable and ecologically diverse forest that many people rely on for their livelihoods.
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