By: Fabiana Frayssinet
Date: October 13th 2016
Source: IPS News
EL PATO, Argentina, Oct 13 2016 (IPS) - Her seven children have grown up, but she now takes care of a young grandson while working in her organic vegetable garden in El Pato, south of the city of Buenos Aires. Olga Campos wants for them what she wasn’t able to achieve: an education to forge a different future.
By: Sarah McColl
Date: October 7th 2016
Source: Take Part
By: Patrick Adoga
Date: September 21st 2016
Source: Today
As the world celebrates the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations today, conservationists have warned transnational companies from Europe, America and Asia against scramble for land in Nigeria and Africa for industrial agro-business.
By: Roy Prosterman (Landesa)
Date: September 20th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Since World War II, there have been five great Asian development success stories founded upon land tenure reforms that allocated land ownership, or equivalent long-term land rights, into the hands of small farmers. Will Burma be the sixth?
By: Bryan Thomas
Date: 19 September 2016
Source: Diplomaticourier
An Emerging Philippine Case Study
Throughout human history, the contact between developed economies and indigenous people in undeveloped areas has created tension, and often tragedy. Today the challenge of creating a positive connection between developing and advanced orders remains a pressing, if elusive goal.
Date: September 14th 2016
Source: Economy Lead
Economic growth is not enough to save those threatened daily with starvation. Governments need to tailor policies and investments to transform rural areas in developing countries if they want to eliminate poverty, according to a new global study released by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) today.
By: Shivani Chaudhry
Date: September 6th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
By: Gaurav Madan
Date: August 31st 2016
Source: Motherboard
Depending on the season, the journey to Rivercess County requires either bumping along dirt paths or navigating endless stretches of mud. In the heart of Liberia the dense tropical forests, some of the last intact in West Africa, are omnipresent.
By: Zoe Tabary
Date: Thursday, 9 June 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
