The conference is taking place at the University of
Dodoma, Tanzania, hosted by the Department of Geography and Environmental
Studies.
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. These include 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.
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