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Four years ago, Asira Nzamwitaakuze, a Rwandan farmer and mother of four young children, more than doubled her harvest when

Zack Foreman was among the wealthiest men in the West during the 1890s. He had his own private railroad, herds

National governments across the world continue the slow march toward legislating gender equality, but in countries with gendered patterns of

Too often at the Clinton Global Initiative we hear how companies and NGOs are partnering to fix a problem. That

Regardless of what matters to you – access to education, universal food security, strengthening women’s rights, or a healthier environment

A severe drought in the Horn of Africa is forcing millions of people into starvation, leaving many with no option

I was recently reminded of the importance, and the potency, of locally legitimate law reform (law reform which is based

While Landesa’s recent 17-province survey of farmers found a worrying upswing in farmland loss across much of China, there is

In my last post, I wrote about the risks and benefits of large-scale land acquisitions in developing countries. Judging by

Hernando De Soto’s Op-ed in the Feb. 3rd Wall Street Journal rightly points out that “Egypt’s legal institutions fail the