To Farm or Not to Farm? This Is the Question
The dilemma is critical: on the one hand, there is an absolute need to produce more food for the world’s steadily growing population; on the other, there is pressing urgency to halt -and further revert-
Published : 19 July 2016
UN: Agriculture and Forestry can improve Food Security
Agriculture and forestry can improve food security, according to a new United Nations report released today, at the start of World Forest Week. Farming is globally the most significant driver of deforestation, but promoting a more
Published : 18 July 2016
Property Rights Still Wretchedly Insecure in Africa
COSMAS MURUNGA was always proud to show off his mud-walled home, set in a clearing on the wooded slopes of Mount Elgon; to explain how his people coexisted with, and cared for, the forest and
Published : 16 July 2016
Brazil: Rio Water Privatisation Imposed for Games
Brazil’s new government imposes Rio water privatisation to pay for Olympic Games A few weeks after the May coup against Dilma Rousseff by conservative parties backed by the country`s largest corporations, Brazil`s “interim” government, led by
Published : 14 July 2016
Obstacles to Development: Data on fragility, Conflict and Violence
Latin America and the Caribbean have high homicide rates. Over half a million people were killed by intentional homicide in 2012, while in 2014 there were more than one hundred thousand battle-related deaths. Episodes of such
Published : 13 July 2016
How Eviction Feeds Poverty
Sociologist and Harvard Professor Matthew Desmond spent a year living in Milwaukee’s inner-city neighborhoods studying the implications of poverty. Staying in rooming houses and trailer parks, he spent his days with tenants being evicted and the landlords
Published : 11 July 2016
China: Profiting from Confiscated Tibetan Lands
In the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China is confiscating lands at a low price and then reselling at a profit to Chinese developers. Newly built apartments in these lands are then sold
Published : 11 July 2016
U.S. Congress Mulls Lifting Protection of Commons
Congressional proposal would create a Texas-sized “Republic of Cliven Bundy” Cliven Bundy may be in jail, but he still has friends in Congress. The U.S. House of Representatives next week is expected to vote on a proposal
Published : 10 July 2016
India Mine Displaced 400 Adivasi Families
The mine that displaced India`s indigenous people. About 400 Adivasi families once lived near the Chaal coal mine, but blasting and water contamination forced them to leave The earth-shattering sound of dynamite welcomed us to
Published : 07 July 2016
