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Development news: Louise 'In Congo's Shadow' Linton is back! Bill Easterly admits that he was wrong! Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 special department on a 'Reading The Congo'; quitting Peace Corps; how to teach into the conservation industry? Reality TV & humanitarians; global wellness & men - too thence much more!

Our digital lives: Uruguayan Barbie; do advocacy documentaries work? The U.K. Home Office 'disrupted' NGO data; how men are shaping our contemporary cities.

Publications: Agribusiness inward Latin America.

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Development tidings
In the delineate of fire


Finally, nosotros must supply meliorate duty-of-care to all staff on the frontlines, especially national staff. International assist agencies are increasingly providing assist remotely inward highly insecure environments. This agency they are delivering relief through local partners too transferring the endangerment to them. Local too national partner organizations confront an inadequate story of safety too back upwards from their international partners. We must supply meliorate safety preparation to equip them inward the field, every bit recommended yesteryear the recent Presence too Proximity written report on assist workers. Donors too international partners should ensure that national partners’ safety needs are factored into proposals too budgets, thence they take maintain the resources needed to protect their staff.
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Wars take maintain rules. It is fourth dimension to enforce these rules, rather than take maintain brave assist workers needlessly endangerment their lives, too likewise many of the most vulnerable to live left solitary inward the crossfire too lose theirs.
Jan Egeland & Stephen O’Brien for Thomson Reuters Foundation with an of import overview of key issues of in conclusion week's World Humanitarian Day.

Chinese vendors 'exploiting' African children removed from Taobao
The BBC got inward behave upon with 1 buyer, who wanted to live known alone every bit Mr Zhang, who said he paid 200 yuan ($30) for a video featuring African children for his wheel business. He justified it yesteryear maxim the advertizement was a expert marketing fox too had attracted to a greater extent than customers.
When asked well-nigh whether the coin reached the children inward the halt he said: "Why should I tending that much? I alone tending well-nigh the marketing effect."
Customers on Taobao appeared to live delighted with the services spell they were on offering too at that topographic point appeared to live to live petty consideration yesteryear vendors too customers of the endangerment of cultural insensitivity or fifty-fifty an awareness of China's chequered history with regards to race too advertising.
Yashan Zhao for BBC Chinese. As Communist People's Republic of China engages to a greater extent than globally, including on the African continent, it seems that nosotros volition live seeing to a greater extent than replications of 'Western' mistakes when it comes to representation too communication!

The worst lady: how dodgy memoirs too Insta-spats made Louise Linton an infamous political spouse
Thank you, Treasury Barbie! Alas, it seems that other Instagram users couldn’t quite bask the post every bit the reach-out to the left behind that it was clearly meant to be. “Glad nosotros could pay for your petty getaway,” remarked some other user, Oregonian woman rear of 3 Jenni Miller. “#deplorable.”
Did Louise realise that it would live smart to ascension inward a higher identify this off-brand comment from 1 of her husband’s average Americans? I’m afraid she didn’t. Instead, she shot correct back, too at some considerable length:
Marina Hyde for the Guardian. You in all probability noticed this calendar week that Louise Linton is dorsum too is adding to a greater extent than misguided communication to her #LintonLies notoriety after publishing 'In Congo's Shadow'. I purchased a print-on-demand newspaper re-create of the volume too volition treasure it for enquiry too instruction purposes!

'Reading Conrad inward the Congo'

On NYT’s Misguided Nostalgia for Conrad
The indicate hither is non necessarily to telephone telephone out Prof. Jasanoff, but to highlight what seems to live an insatiable demand at the Times for orientalist pieces on Africa too Africans.
Ken Opalo also comments on Maya Jasanoff's NYT piece.

Jeffrey Gettleman’s tired tome
But it is probable that a to a greater extent than self-aware, self-critical version of Gettleman would non take maintain come upwards to occupy such a plum seat inside the hallowed halls of journalism. Gettleman is a keen story teller. His prose is lite too engaging. Handsome too photogenic, he is able to tell seductively elementary stories well-nigh a continent that seems thence overwhelming to most Americans. There volition ever live an audience for this type of work.
Keren Weitzberg for Africa is a country comments on some other heavily criticized recent (mis-)representation of 'Africa' that makes me fifty-fifty to a greater extent than interested inward finally reading Gettleman myself...

Bikinis non bombs: why isn’t the humanitarian sector getting intimate with Love Island?
Humanitarian workers take maintain a prescribed identity too Thurlow does non conform. She’s most unremarkably seen inward a bikini, on a demo that is perceived every bit ‘lowbrow’ too she’s publically talking well-nigh her operate on a platform that is non a conference – the Castilian villa had no trees to hang pledges too no communiqués were handed out. Tradition too a dour, do-gooder identity is belongings dorsum the sector.
Mel Paramasivan shares some interesting reflections on how a reality format like Love Island tin live a tool for communicating evolution issues. I concur that humanitarian issues demand pop back upwards too that traditional campaigns or celebrity engagement take maintain limitations inward our mediatized environment. But at the halt of the twenty-four hours the sector needs good prepared, reflective practitioners who tin bargain with complex situations too that's when reality formats oftentimes compass their limits.

A rich person’s profession? Young conservationists struggle to create it
“Foreign researchers too students arrive, conduct a project, seat out a newspaper after returning home, too never go dorsum again; is this conservation?” said Seth Wong, 26, who’s working on a graduate grade at Mississippi State University.
To assist globalize conservation, Milner-Gulland called for to a greater extent than grants for students from developing countries to study conservation every bit good every bit for disadvantaged students at home. She proposed a computer program that would sponsor graduates to go to other continents for conservation preparation inward a one-to-two yr paid position, which she compared to the “type of fast-track graduate-level preparation that the large firms too civil service offering to their best too brightest.“
For Lucas Ruzo conservation is stuck inward a non-profit model that is limiting.
“We demand to displace beyond the charity model, too encompass unlike legal operating structures,” he said. “Let’s fund innovation, excogitation of the form that doesn’t take maintain a publication attached to the halt of it.”
Jeremy Hance for Mongabay with a long-read that is relevant for large parts of the assist manufacture too how traditional forms of entering the sector seem to a greater extent than too to a greater extent than exploitative too outdated.

My Letter to PC
if I experience strongly well-nigh the changes that demand to live made inward PC, I should remain too operate towards it internally. On the other hand, I experience I am taking upwards infinite when other voices take maintain already been decentralized. PC too most PCVs take maintain been co-opting HCN spaces since 1961, centering their reputed mission to assist spell crowding out the voices too efforts of HCNs, inadvertently prolonging neocolonialism. After a keen bargain of deep reflection too counsel from those who take maintain dedicated their operate to social justice, including RPCVs too others who take maintain had experience inward international aid, I experience it is to a greater extent than meaningful for me to do this operate with my social justice-driven community dorsum inward the US. I take maintain late reconciled that my criticisms of PC are fair – that I do non concur with this operate too I do non experience that choosing to remain too improve it volition live productive. Furthermore, my criticisms of PC too this operate to undo oppression (such every bit neocolonialism) is non just well-nigh PC, it is well-nigh a broader social jurist mission too it is also personal (i.e. my experience every bit a woman somebody Asian American). Decidedly, it is wiser for me to go out PC too homecoming to Baltimore.
Hyoyoung Minna Kim with a long opened upwards missive of the alphabet to the Peace Corps on why she is quitting her assignment too returning to the U.S. to engage inward 'aid work'.

How Do You Know When Your Resilience is Low?
Our resilience may erode tardily overtime if nosotros are non bouncing dorsum from normal stress too pressure. Or, it tin driblet apace after experiencing a important emotional lawsuit or a especially stressful period. Knowing your electrical current province of resilience tin assist y'all create upwards one's hear whether to carve out extra fourth dimension for resilience enhancing activities.
Beth Payne for GovLoop with a handy overview on how to spot depression resilience too some of the symptoms of psycho-social problems.

Global health: generation men
Generation Men inward global wellness extends beyond multilateral too funding institutions. While the editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal is a woman, both The Lancet too Science take maintain men inward this post. Of the top pharmaceutical companies, alone 1 has a woman somebody principal executive officer.1 Furthermore, at to the lowest degree inward the USA, most global wellness academic leadership positions are also dominated yesteryear men.2 These leaders are unquestionably fine men––but also unquestionably men.
There is much speculation well-nigh why this is the case. One explanation is that this is an expanse of operate that favours those who do non serve every bit primary caregivers because working inward global wellness requires spending extensive fourth dimension inward the acre too travelling.
When I directed wellness programmes for the Open Society Foundation too was the acting Chief of Health at UNICEF, I travelled 75% of the time. For anyone serving every bit a primary caregiver, this much move is merely impossible
Nina Schwalbe for The Lancet with a small reminder well-nigh the long way to go inward global wellness leadership to accomplish meliorate inclusiveness too broader representation of women.

How tin nosotros construct meliorate partnerships for global health?
This is non to cite that “the computers take maintain plastic over them one-half the time. Electricity, computers, literacy, at that topographic point are all these issues. And the TelCo infrastructure! We take maintain layers of capacity gaps to address,” said 1 person.
Linda Raftree for Wait...What? shares a summary from the latest NYC Tech Salon that read a fighting similar is 'who is who' of challenges inward international evolution to a greater extent than broadly...

From Fiction to Fact
“NGOs too nonprofits for years take maintain been able to take maintain a transactional human relationship with the public. What that agency is that they’ve ever had such high levels of trust with the public, with the government, etc that they’ve been able to tell a one-dimensional story,” Walkom says. “The way I await at it is, we’ve told y'all the story of demand for thence long that nosotros haven’t genuinely stopped too started telling y'all the story of how we’re responding to that need.” She adds that the crisis inward trust inward business, governments too NGOs, that enquiry similar the Edelman Trust Barometer, has been indicating for years, agency that one-dimensional storytelling isn’t working anymore.
Brittany Golob for Communicate with a portrait Save the Children’s Global Communications Director Kirsten Walkom.

Our digital lives
 
An interesting project, but I experience a fighting ambivalent well-nigh the conventional utilisation of Barbie every bit a representation of 'beautiful women' too her empowering activities.

The truth well-nigh inconvenient truths: ‘big issue’ documentaries don’t ever alter our behaviour
Advocacy documentaries should also live coupled with other behaviour alter techniques to increment their chances of success. For instance, they should inquire viewers to publicly pledge to alter their behaviour or to laid goals, give them tools to assist cast a novel habit, or tell them just how to petition organisations too governments to create structural changes.
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Documentaries tin live a useful musical instrument inward the behaviour alter toolkit. But lasting alter needs to a greater extent than than an engaging story on its own.
Kim Borg too Bradley Jorgensen for The Conversation. To live honest, I'm fifty-fifty to a greater extent than skeptical well-nigh conduct alter than the authors-especially inward the context of low-hanging fruits similar pledges too petitions which require petty personal travail too fifty-fifty smaller personal change.

Home Office used charity information map to deport crude oil sleepers
A chain of emails sent yesteryear senior Home Office immigration officials demo how they used information that was designed to protect crude oil sleepers to target vulnerable individuals for deportation. The internal correspondence shows the Home Office repeatedly requesting too finally gaining access to a map created yesteryear the Greater London Authority (GLA) that identified too categorised crude oil sleepers yesteryear nationality.
The hugger-mugger organisation meant frontline outreach workers tasked with helping the homeless yesteryear collating information for the GLA were inadvertently helping the Home Office to take away people who were from the European Union or key eastern Europe. In May 2016, the Home Office introduced guidance enabling immigration enforcement teams to deport European Union nationals, purely on the grounds that they were sleeping rough.
Mark Townsend for the Guardian. Data is political. Data tin too volition live ab-/re-used if available. Governments oftentimes do non part your vision of transparency too openness-we volition live reading to a greater extent than stories similar this inward the futurity non to the lowest degree inward the context of 'ICT4D'.

Butlers to the cosmopolites? We’ll pay the price
Are nosotros non – similar those well-meaning natives inward San Sebastian, Venice, Barcelona too Berlin – also suffering some of the brunt of cosmopolitanism? (...), renting an story if y'all do non take maintain a task inward i-gaming is directly close impossible, too waste matter volumes take maintain increased exponentially with evening-time collection hours rendering the streets a correct dump.
It is a curt gentrification that is hollowing out the community’s erstwhile haunts, directly replaced with the vanilla blandness whose main consumer is the short- too long-stay tourist. Those with coin dream of smoothening out the crude oil edges of the erstwhile towns to construct waterfront properties. Those without the cash just reckon their streetscapes change, powerless.
Matthew Vella for Malta Today adds to the fence on how contemporary 'globalization', tourism too migration are adding novel aspects of gentrification to globalized spaces, cities too islands...

Mansplaining the city
Not alone are these 4 books yesteryear men, they’re largely well-nigh men. According to the books themselves, the factors that take maintain contributed to gentrification—displacement of marginalized communities, systemically ingrained racism, unequitable housing policy—have been largely implemented yesteryear powerful men over the in conclusion century.
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Even if nosotros fantasize well-nigh cities that foster racial equity, or a matriarchal society-within-a-city, instead of our condition quo of cities designed for too yesteryear men, the reality is that the shift towards just too equitable cities volition alone go on when a to a greater extent than various grouping of Americans are inward positions to create policy decisions that shape our neighborhoods.
Alissa Walker for Curbed with a long-read/book review essay on gender, ability too the contemporary (American) city.

Richard Florida Is Sorry
The notion that inventiveness could solve these urban problems — either from above, with monumental fine art galleries, or from below, with bearded clusters of hipsters, is a symptom of this profound transformation.
Richard Florida was correct when he said that the “creative economy” is the novel way of the world. But its evolution didn’t go on how he imagined. Rather than launching humanity into a novel stage of prosperity, the novel economic scheme merely holds the unlike elements of belatedly capitalism together — making it palatable for some but deepening its crises too contradictions for others.
Sam Wetherell for Jacobin on 1 of the key manlike somebody thinkers behind aforementioned debates on how 'our' cities should await like.

Publications & Academia
Introduction to the Special Issue: Agribusiness, (Neo)Extractivism too Food Sovereignty: Latin America at a Crossroads?
Despite these trends, the study of the ‘everyday’ of agricultural policy-making, production, commercialisation too consumption take maintain late garnered attending inward Latin America, every bit a resultant of the rapid industrial agricultural expansion, too the consequent resistance yesteryear local communities that take maintain attempted to reclaim their agricultural sovereignty. More than ever, the fields of Latin America take maintain teach conceptual too straight battlefields, where ideological, economic, political too cultural positions clash. The expansion of the agroindustrial frontier, fuelled yesteryear technological advances inward genetically modified crops too the large-scale utilisation of pesticides too fertilisers, is 1 facial expression of the intensification of extractivist activities that take maintain dominated the region’s recent political economical model, farther increasing tensions surrounding environmental issues too terra firma utilisation (...).
Counterbalancing the advances of industrial agriculture, some rural communities too environmentalist groups take maintain sought to promote too strengthen choice agricultural models through practices every bit various every bit polycropping, seed saving, agricultural ecology schools too judicial resistance.
Ana Estefanía Carballo, María Eugenia Giraudo, Diego Silva too Johannes Waldmueller with an overview over the forthcoming Alternautas writings on Agribusiness.

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