Posts Tagged: agriculture

China’s unprecedented economic growth and rapid urbanization have created a massive demand for arable land to be converted to real

I just returned from the annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington, DC.  I was happy to

Last year, the government of West Bengal and Landesa’s partner in India, RDI, started a revolution in that Indian state

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

After more than a decade meeting with government officials and families in rural areas of the developing world, I have

What happens when you send 130 college students to thousands of villages in rural China, armed with pens and camera

Sia and Polet work for a small Cambodian NGO. They have some funding from a New Zealand charity, but barely

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

This post was commissioned by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship blog. Photo by Deborah Espinosa One billion people around