Blog Marcel Rutten: Africa in the Dutch 2017 Elections

In his blog Marcel Rutten writes about the little attention development cooperation with Africa received in the Dutch election campaign. The Dutch Party for the Animals did point to climate change causing people to suffer most from weather vagaries, as witnessed in Africa's drylands today. However, the party has also actively called for the protection of wildlife. By doing so it touches on a dilemma: the expansion of land exclusively set aside for wild animals is making a growing nomadic pastoralist population less resilient. Read Rutten's blog.