Beyond a click: Regional assessment on state of digital right
Digital age has brought many opportunities and challenges. The key challenges are: how to harness the opportunities while enjoying and protecting human rights; and, how to translate ‘traditional’5 offline rights into online rights. The key question is ‘how to guarantee and protect human rights online? The nature of digital age and globalization has broken geographical boundaries, legal territories and jurisdictions. Africa and specifically Southern Africa as part of the global digital village has not been spared by the dilemma of technology and human rights. Digital rights are an extension of ‘human rights in the offline’ world as recognised, protected and promoted by international laws and conventions6. These include the right to freedom of expression, the right to privacy, and the right to freedom from censorship and online surveillance, to name a few7. These rights are in line with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR)8. The UN Human Rights Council has affirmed in a number of resolutions that “the same rights that people have offline must also be protected online.” Read more by clicking the link below
Beyond-a-Click-Assessment-of-digital-rights-in-Southern-Africa.pdf
State led contract farming in maize production and farmers’ lived experiences
The dynamics of contract farming are different between food crops and cash crops with experiences, perceptions and outlook between these schemes entirely different. The government of Zimbabwe implemented a Special Maize Programme for Import Substitution from the 2016/17 agricultural season also known as command agriculture which is a state led contract farming scheme for maize. While the impacts, challenges and structure of contract farming have been documented (e.g. Mazwi and Muchetu, 2015, Moyo 2013), much of the focus of these studies have been on contract farming for cash crops. The objectives of these case stories are, therefore, to document farmers' production and market experiences in state-led contract farming for maize as a food crop and mirror their perceptions and reflection of contract farming for food crops across production gradients, gender and varied production capacities. Click below for the rest of the paper.
Maize_Case_Stories_Final.pdf
Contract farming and peasant livelihoods: The case of sugar out-grower schemes in Manhica District, Mozambique
The focus of the study was to investigate the effect of contract farming on peasant livelihoods in Manhica District, Mozambique. A mixture of approaches which combine qualitative and quantitative methods were used in the study. The results show that small scale farmers have no control over cane prices and there is a lack of transparency between out-growers and the milling companies on price issues. Fuelling the power asymmetries between the plantation estate and sugar out-growers is the monopsonistic nature of the sugar industry as well as the weak nature of producer associations in Mozambique. Women participation in out grower schemes and in employment opportunities at the Maragra estate was found to be very low and this is attributable to patriarchy and low levels of education. The study also established that the process of differentiation was taking place in Manhica and being driven by non- agriculture sources of income derived from working at Maragra Estate as well as migratory work. To read more follow the link below
AIAS-Policy-Brief-The-Case-of-Sugar-Outgrower-Schemes-in-Manhica-District-Mozambique_.pdf
The 2018 National Budget Analysis. How Child Sensitive and Pro-Poor is it?
The National Budget is a key development tool that can be used to transform the lives of the general citizenry. This can only happen if the National Budget is pro-poor and pro-people. A budget that is pro-poor and pro-people can adequately address the unique development needs of diverse citizens for instance children, youth, women, elderly, persons with disabilities, and indigenous people amongst others. Thus, the National Budget is an effective tool to ensure that No One is Left Behind in development matters, thereby contributing immensely to the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs seek to integrate the three dimensions of sustainable development: the economic, social and environmental. Click the PDF link below to view the whole document.
2018-Budget-Review.pdf
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