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EMPLOYMENT: IIRR African Regional Director
EMPLOYMENT: Marketing Specialist, International Potato Center (CIP)
Can the Global Land Rush benefit investors and farmers?
Neil MacFarquhar’s recent piece in the New York Times describing how African farmers are being displaced by large-scale land investments raises some important issues. As he points out, large-scale investment in land in developing countries has accelerated rapidly in recent …
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FUNDING: Development Innovations Ventures
Landlessness is Not Forever
After more than a decade meeting with government officials and families in rural areas of the developing world, I have yet to encounter anyone who would discount the importance of land, or who would challenge the fact that landlessness is …
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