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Land systems shape how foreign investment happens and what impact it has.
New research shows that rural America has untapped export potential. Taking advantage of it could be a more effective way to narrow the trade deficit than tariffs.
South Africa’s land reform minister should be distributing land owned by the government to black farmers rather than fussing about new laws.
The essential ingredients in achieving the development goals are partnerships combined with smart thinking about how to deploy 21st century technologies.
The sustainable and inclusive development of the St. Lawrence River is essential. A prolonged laissez-faire attitude will have harmful consequences on people and the environment.
The face of Africa’s educational high-achievers is changing.
If rural communities plan carefully – and some already are – they can reinvent themselves as the perfect homes for people fleeing wildfire and hurricane zones.
Developments in the energy sector shouldn’t be reduced to technological sophistication. They should be guided by how they improve the livelihoods of the intended beneficiaries.
Attempts to formalise charcoal production have been largely unsuccessful.
Step aside, Pablo Escobar. New research shows it was poor farmers who helped turn Colombia into the world’s largest drug producer when they started growing and exporting pot in the 1970s.
Building a lasting peace in Afghanistan will take much more than an accord with the Taliban. In post-conflict nations, economic development and job creation are critical to national security.
Banditry in northern Nigeria is making an already precarious security situation in the region worse.
Agriculture is well placed to provide employment for millions across the African continent.
Policymakers in Africa approach rural and urban development separately. This needs to change.
The latest World Bank report on South Africa addresses solutions to the country’s economic challenges.
Some communities on South Africa’s Platinum Belt have received substantial mining revenues, but these are controlled by chiefs.
South Africa’s land policy is flailing around in the dark, with the haziest of understandings of how well or how badly land reform is doing.
A massive rural on-grid electrification programme in Rwanda has delivered considerable benefits. But is it the most sensible way to deliver power to remote areas?
Across Japan, towns and villages are vanishing as the population ages and young people move to the cities. How the country manages this holds lessons for other developed nations facing a similar fate.
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