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Dodoma, Tanzania-7 July 2014 –
The Green Economy in the South conference will take place this week at
the University of Dodoma, Tanzania, hosted by the Department of
Geography and Environmental Studies. The conference which takes place 8-10 July 2014 will critically examine different tools and approaches that inform Africa’s green economy
strategies and will be opened by Professor Idriss Kikula, the Vice Chancellor of University of Dodoma who will give the keynote address.
The
momentum gathering behind the idea and practice of the Green Economy is
coinciding with financial instability and continued economic woe in the
North, but generally happier economic circumstances in the South.
Africa’s economies are growing and ‘green economic initiatives’ are part
of these changes.
The
three-day international conference will bring together researchers and
activists mainly from the South to debate and learn different phenomena
of green economic initiatives, including carbon payments, ecotourism,
community-based wildlife management, Corporate Social Responsibility
initiatives and
offsets by mining companies exploiting new resources which are all a
part of a landscape offering new commodities, opportunities for
commercialisation and integration into wealth-generating markets. One of
the aims of the event is to bring together field-based research with
theoretical ideas about framing and context of Green Economy issues.
“We are convening it in Tanzania because we want the focus of this
conference to be about the growth of Africa’s green economy initiatives.
Africa’s expanding economy calls for initiatives that pave way for a
better, more sustainable development,” says Thabit Jacob of University
of Dodoma.
This conference builds on a series of sister conferences held in Europe and North America. It is sponsored by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the UK Department for International Development (UKAID) and co-hosted by the Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape; the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM), University of Manchester; the Institute for Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University; the Sustainability Platform, Copenhagen Business School (CBS); and the Future Agricultures Consortium.
More information about Green Economy in the South conference is available at: http://greeneconomyinthesouth.
For press inquiries, contact:
Thabit Jacob, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Dodoma
Mobile: +255 753 58 73 34 or +255 783 58 73 34, E-mail: thabitsenior.jacob@gmail.com
Thabit Jacob, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Dodoma
Mobile: +255 753 58 73 34 or +255 783 58 73 34, E-mail: thabitsenior.jacob@gmail.com
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Beatrice Ouma
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