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Poor Land Tenure: A Key Component to Why Nations Fail
This article was originally posted on The Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars’ New Security Beat blog The murder of five
Next steps to put voluntary guidelines into action to address the global land rush
Since 2008, a global land rush—sparked initially by a dramatic rise in global food prices and now driven by a
Growing profits – and a greener planet
While many people are aware that agriculture is highly susceptible to the effects of climate change, few know that agricultural
Uprooting Families to Save Trees
Much has been written about the global land rush –the trend in which investors, eager to establish plantations to produce
The Myth of Cheap Land
A severe drought in the Horn of Africa is forcing millions of people into starvation, leaving many with no option
The Next Big Idea
“Exchanging ideas that matter” – Big Ideas. That phrase sums up the Aspen Ideas Festival 2011, which I had the
