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The global farmland rush
OVER the last decade, as populations have grown, capital has flowed across borders and crop yields have leveled off, food-importing nations and private investors have been securing land abroad to use for agriculture....
Resolving the food crisis: The need for decisive action
What progress has been made in the last year in addressing the underlying causes of the global food crisis? Far too little....
The rise of the permanent temp economy–low wage and insecure
Politicians across the political spectrum herald “job creation,” but frightfully few of them talk about what kinds of jobs are being created....
Do global summits help to tackle poverty?
Disappointment at the collective performance of our leaders at global summits goes far beyond the development movement....
Fixing our food problem
Nothing affects public health in the United States more than food. Gun violence kills tens of thousands of Americans a year....
Africa: the next twenty years
Sixty years ago, emboldened by such figures as Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere and Leopold Senghor, Africans were enjoying the fresh air and the expectations of independence....
Congo: The world’s worst war
LAST month, as I was driving down a backbreaking road between Goma, a provincial capital in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kibumba, a little market town about 20 miles away, I...
HSBC—Too big to indict? A dark day for the rule of law
It is a dark day for the rule of law. Federal and state authorities have chosen not to indict HSBC, the London-based bank, on charges of vast and prolonged money laundering, for fear that criminal prosecution would topple the bank and, in the process, endanger the financial system....
Hunger in plain sight
There are hungry people out there, actually; they’re just largely invisible to the rest of us, or they look so much like us that it’s hard to tell....
Why fighting corruption in Africa fails
Post-independence African countries inherited deeply corrupt institutions, laws and values from colonial and apartheid governments....
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