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Why Africa Needs Open Legislatures

By Peter Veit on December 18, 2012
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This post was co-written with Gilbert Sendugwa, Coordinator and Head of Secretariat for the

Managing Land for Mining and Conservation in the Democratic Republic of Congo

By Anne-Gaelle Javelle and Peter Veit on August 9, 2012

This paper originally appeared on the Africa Biodiversity Collaborative Group website. The full text of the paper is available here.

Why Land Rights Should Be on the Rio+20 Agenda

By Peter Veit and Janet Ranganathan on May 25, 2012
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As government leaders prepare for next month’s UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in Brazil, one issue is conspicuously abse

For Oil Industry Transparency, Uganda Should Look to Other African Countries

By Peter Veit and Candy Schibli on April 4, 2012
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Since the discovery of an abundance of oil in 2008, and despite the Parliament’s drafting of the

Biofuel Investments Threaten Local Land Rights in Tanzania

By Peter Veit, Mercedes Stickler, Candy Schibli, and Catherine Easton on February 28, 2012

This piece originally appeared on the International Land Coalition Land Portal. This full text is available here.

Threats to Village Land in Tanzania: Implications for REDD+ Benefit- Sharing Arrangements

By Peter Veit, Darryl Vhugen (Landesa), Jonathan Miner (Landesa) on January 13, 2012

This piece originally appeared in Lessons About Land Tenure, Forest Governance and REDD+: Case Studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America.[^1] The full text of the article is available here.

Q&A: Avoiding the Resource Curse in Uganda

By Peter Veit and Florence Landsberg on April 8, 2011

The following Q&A and photo essay originally appeared on allAfrica.com, and are reposted with permission.

Stopping the Resource Wars in Africa

By Sarah McHaney and Peter Veit on August 10, 2009

Two upcoming Senate bills could have a big impact on the Democratic Republic of Congo, by exposing how its 10-year conflict is being funded.