Agenda 23 - 29 Augustus 2015

Thesis: Shrimp quality and safety management along the supply chain in Benin. PhD candidate: DS (Sylvain) Dabade. This thesis focuses on quality and safety management of tropical shrimp (Penaeus spp.) along the supply chain in Benin (West Africa), as an example developing country that exports shrimps to developed countries.

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Thesis: Certifications, Child Labour and Livelihood Strategies: An Analysis of the Cocoa Production in Ghana. PhD candidate: R (Rita) Owusu Amankwah. The global cocoa industry has been pressured to improve the conditions of producers and safeguard children’s rights. This has imposed responsibilities on businesses, government and farmers to implement innovative interventions to improve the situation. This thesis investigated the innovative interventions being implemented by the actors to reduce the WFCL and improve the livelihoods of farmers and exploring how these may offer opportunities for sustainable structural change in the cocoa value-chain.

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ZAM kindly invites you to participate in another exciting event! Emmelie Koster, director of NMAG, will present the works and share observations and insights about the ‘collaborative spirit’ amongst young artists and the art scene in South Africa. A series of exquisite prints by William Kentridge are part of the exhibition. Please confirm your attendance at info@zammagazine.com and put 'Tour & Talk' in the subject line. Alternatively, you can confirm your presence at the eventspage of our Facebook account, www.facebook.com/zamthemagazine

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On Friday 28 August the Voice4Thought festival presents a debate where young leaders from West and Central Africa and the Netherlands discuss the upcoming resistance of young people in Central Africa, and the Western 'export' of human rights. Various locations in Leiden. Discussants: Rapper Smockey (one of the leiders of the Burkina Faso uprising, 2014), poetry slam artist Croquemort (Chad), political activist Maina Ibangolo Abel (Chad), human rights lawyer Pangmashi Yenkong (Cameroon) and Isa Yusibov (political activist from the Netherlands).

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