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Extensive information about the !Kung, !Khwe, /Xam, Gana, Hadzabe, Sandawe, Dahalo (als known as San or "Bushmen") in the southern African countries. You will find many texts concerning different aspects of their lives, but first and foremost about current (political) questions concerning the survival of their peoples and cultures. Furthermore, there is a bibliography. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
"The interdisciplinary research project IMPETUS examines since mid-2000 the main aspects of the water cycle on the basis of two river catchment areas in Benin and Morocco. The main objective is to enable to our partner countries a sustainable management of scarce resource 'water'. (...) The implementing of [Spatial Decision Support Systems] as well as the training and further training in the domain of the water management and the food security are ... key duties of the project." The website offers a lot of information and studies (fulltexts) about the results of the projects, as well as two e-books in Engl. and French with the whole report on Benin and Morocco. The e-books also have chapters on society and economy. [according to site editor’s information] ... [supplemented]
The Ushaidi Platform can be used for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping of a specific topic. It was created as a tool for documenting the post-electoral violent events in Kenya 2008. Meanwhile, a number of other initiatives in Africa use this platform. For a list of projects see table of contents (as at April 2011). Ushaidi Blog was awarded best of the blogs by Deutsche Welle in 2010. ... [editors ilissAfrica]
www.ushahidi.com/products/ushahidi-platform
Programme of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences in the field "International Relations > South-South Cooperation > Cooperation with Africa and Asia". You will find information on publications, networks, conferences and more. [editors ilissAfrica]
www.clacso.org.ar/area_r_internacionales/3b.php
The Land Matrix is a global and independent land monitoring initiative that promotes transparency and accountability in decisions over land and investment. This website is a Global Observatory - an open tool for collecting and visualising information about large-scale land acquisitions. The institutions behind are CIRAD (Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement), CDE (Centre for Development and Environment), GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) and ILC (International Land Coalition). ... [according to site editor's information]