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	<title>Riches of the Poor</title>
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		<title>Rufiji: what do they know about SEKAB?</title>
		<link>http://www.lars.intanzania.org/rufiji-interviews-what-do-they-know-about-sekab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 09:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lars</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These videoclips are work in progress. They are from a collection of six hours of video interviews recorded by Kassim Mustafa, Maweni Farm, and Joseph Shayo, JET, in Rufiji and Kisarawe districts in Tanzania in November 2008. The material shows very clearly that the people who have agreed to give out their land for free [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.lars.intanzania.org/184/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 10:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lars</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting map from IFPRI on global land grabbing movement. 
View “Land Grabbing” by Foreign Investors in Developing Countries in a larger map
From: http://www.ifpri.org/pubs/bp/bp013.asp
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		<title>Cry of the Forest</title>
		<link>http://www.lars.intanzania.org/cry-of-the-forest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 08:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lars</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a short documentary about the Critical Ecosystem Partnership fund that we made with Tanzania Forest Conservation Group:
20 minute documentary about efforts to protect what remains of the incredibly rich montane and coastal forests of East Africa through a grants programme by the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund. NIKE DOGGART from the Tanzania Forest Conservation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Article in DN: &#8220;Swedish aid to save environmentally harmful ethanol project&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.lars.intanzania.org/article-in-dn-debatt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lars</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biofuels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter  just published a  critical article about SEKAB by me and a group of Norwegian and Swedish researchers
Swedish aid to save environmentally harmful ethanol project

Dagens Nyheter, 14th April 2009.
http://www.dn.se/opinion/debatt/svenskt-bistand-ska-radda-miljofarligt-etanolprojekt-1.843272

Researchers reveal: The Swedish energy company Sekab is restarting its criticized project for ethanol production in Tanzania that can increase emissions of carbon dioxide. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEKAB greenwashed the EIA</title>
		<link>http://www.lars.intanzania.org/sekab-greenwash-eia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lars.intanzania.org/sekab-greenwash-eia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lars</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biofuels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you do first when you get a thick technical EIA report in your hand? I flick through the summary to the conclusions chapter where I expect to find something like a verdict.  In the case of SEKAB&#8217;s draft EIA report I am met by  this all-important  little  paragraph that could well be the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEKAB doctored the EIA</title>
		<link>http://www.lars.intanzania.org/sekab-doctored-the-eia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lars</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biofuels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damning news on SEKAB from development-today.com:

SEKAB ‘substantially altered’ biofuel study, kept Orgut’s name
SEKAB has made changes in the environmental study of the Bagamoyo biofuel plantation project in Tanzania without consulting the Swedish firm Orgut that wrote the original report. SEKAB submitted the report to Tanzanian authorities last December with Orgut’s name on it. Orgut now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do they want from Sida?</title>
		<link>http://www.lars.intanzania.org/what-do-they-want-from-sida/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lars.intanzania.org/what-do-they-want-from-sida/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lars</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biofuels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tanzanian daily The Citizen  (pdf) picked up the news  about Sekab meeting with Sida in Stockholm and called the new CEO Björn Edström in Örnsköldsvik. He said Sekab had seen the Development Today report but that &#8220;there is no truth in it&#8221;. Edström says Sekab is NOT going to &#8220;apply for any assistance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEI and SEKAB</title>
		<link>http://www.lars.intanzania.org/sei-sekab/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lars.intanzania.org/sei-sekab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lars</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biofuels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mats Widgren at Uppsala University comments on a Swedish version of the Guardian article that I talked about yesterday,  published in Swedish newspaper Göteborgsposten.
He says he doesn&#8217;t understand what the authors from the Swedish Environment Institute  want:
They want biofuel investment in Tanzania that is good for the poor, good for the environment and good for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debates about SEKAB worlds apart</title>
		<link>http://www.lars.intanzania.org/debates-sekab-worlds-apart/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lars.intanzania.org/debates-sekab-worlds-apart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lars</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biofuels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Brief background: Sekab is a Swedish company seeking a 99-year land lease to large areas in Tanzania for producing  sugercane fuel ethanol for export.  The project is controversial in both Tanzania and Sweden, for different reasons. The local councils that own Sekab have instructed the company to sell or wind up it&#8217;s activities in Africa. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr Ivarsson in Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.lars.intanzania.org/mr-ivarsson-in-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lars.intanzania.org/mr-ivarsson-in-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lars</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biofuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development cooperation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As an avid, some would say obsessive, blog reader, I&#8217;ve been thinking I should start my own for commenting on the documentary projects I work on for the moment, specifically the oil industry in the Niger Delta. I&#8217;ll do that  as soon as I have some time. Now I don&#8217;t have time, but yesterday I [...]]]></description>
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