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The Amazon Is Nearing the Point of No Return

Unless governments across South America join together to protect the vast rainforest ecosystem, its southern and eastern regions will eventually turn into a grassland savanna.

Thomas Lovejoy

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Environment Feb 10, 2020 Snapshot

The Amazon Is Nearing the Point of No Return

Unless governments across South America join together to protect the vast rainforest ecosystem, its southern and eastern regions will eventually turn into a grassland...

Thomas Lovejoy

Climate Change Nov 29, 2018 Snapshot

Climate Shocks and Humanitarian Crises

Which countries are most at risk from climate-related instability and humanitarian crises in the coming years?

Joshua Busby and Nina von Uexkull

A woman and her child in a drought-stricken region of Somaliland, April 2016.

Food & Agriculture Jun 15, 2017 Snapshot

Puntland’s Problems

The recent al Shabab attack in Af Urur reveals far less about the jihadist group’s persisting strength than about the cauldron of problems stirring in Puntland, a...

Vanda Felbab-Brown

A soldier keeps guard at the opening of the new Bossaso International Airport in Puntland, Somalia January 2016.

Food & Agriculture Jul 11, 2016 Review Essay

Toward Animal Personhood

Every year, humans inflict tremendous suffering upon other animals. They do this because they can—under the law, nonhuman animals are only “things.” Animals will...

Reviewed by Steven M. Wise

Food & Agriculture Apr 3, 2016 Snapshot

Down on the Farm

Last month, India unveiled its latest federal budget. To the surprise of many, it includes a strong emphasis on farming.

Michael Kugelman and Rozina Kanchwala

An Indian agricultural worker walks in a paddy field in Naxalbari, in the northeastern state of West Bengal, September 3, 2004.

Environment Mar 22, 2016 Snapshot

The Curse of Ethiopia’s Success

Eithiopia is competing for aid during its drought with other grave humanitarian disasters. And in that, Ethiopia could be hurt by donor fatigue at yet another...

James Jeffrey

A mother sits with her malnourished child in Seriel health centre in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region, February 13, 2016.

Economic Development November/December 2015 Essay

Food and the Transformation of Africa

African agriculture has long been a symbol of the continent's poverty. But that is starting to change. Thanks to digital technology, Africa’s leaders can today...

Kofi Annan and Sam Dryden

A farmer tends to maize in Central African Republic

Environment Aug 23, 2015 Snapshot

Rivers of Babylon

The Tigris-Euphrates river basin, which feeds Syria and Iraq, is rapidly drying up. This vast area already struggles to support at least ten million conflict-displaced...

Mukad Al Jabbari, Norman Ricklefs, and Robert Tollast

A view of a water canal running from the Euphrates river into the semi-desert region of eastern Syria November 11, 2010.

Food & Agriculture May 12, 2015 Letter From

Mali’s Land Deal With the Devil

One of Africa’s largest land deals—between Libya and Mali—has stalled, leaving thousands of local farmers in limbo.

Chris Arsenault

Economic Development May/June 2015 Essay

The Precision Agriculture Revolution

"Precision agriculture" is revolutionizing farming as we know it. Taking advantage of information technology, farmers can now collect precise data about their fields...

Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer

Economic Development Aug 30, 2012 Response

Growth, Interrupted

Bjørn Lomborg’s recent essay on environmental alarmism overlooked a number of grave threats to the planet, most notably overconsumption. As poorer countries grow out...

John Sulston

Climate Change Aug 16, 2012 Snapshot

The Road From Rio

Despite high expectations and an ambitious agenda, the Rio+20 Conference failed to deliver meaningful progress on environmental issues. Fortunately, government...

Peter M. Haas

Economics September/October 2012 Response

Is Growth Good?

The warnings of The Limits to Growth were far more prescient than Bjørn Lomborg suggests, argue several critics, including two of the book’s authors. No they...

Frances Beinecke; Dennis Meadows; Jørgen Randers; John Harte; Bjorn Lomborg

A worker stands on a crane parked at a construction site at Keihin industrial zone in Kawasaki, south of Tokyo October 22, 2008.

Environment July/August 2012 Letter

Save the Chimps

Jud Nirenberg

Economic Development July/August 2012 Essay

Environmental Alarmism, Then and Now

Forty years ago, the Club of Rome produced a best-selling report warning humanity that its escalating wants were on a collision course with the world’s finite...

Bjorn Lomborg

Large fields of corn growing in fields in Louisville, Kentucky, August 26, 2009.

Human Rights May 21, 2012 Snapshot

Prioritize the Poorest

UNICEF officials explain why development approaches that emphasize equality are also the most cost-effective.

Robert Jenkins and Anthony Lake

Economics May/June 2012 Review Essay

India's Broken Promise

Indian elites are cheering their country’s newfound status and influence. But two recent books reveal the ugly underbelly of India’s success story. A vast gulf has...

Reviewed by Basharat Peer

Environment Mar 14, 2012 Snapshot

Glowing Pork, Exploding Watermelons

Since the scandal four years ago over melamine-laced powdered milk that sickened thousands of children, China's food record hasn't improved. Companies have been caught...

Thomas N. Thompson

Climate Change March/April 2012 Essay

The Globalization of Animal Welfare

As demand for meat has spread around the world, so, too, have the brutal industrial scale methods used to raise and slaughter animals for food, raising a host of...

Miyun Park and Peter Singer

People dressed in costumes take part in a demonstration against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a proposed free trade agreement between the European Union and the United States, in Munich April 18, 2015. The posters (L-R) read:

Economics October 1956 Essay

Economic Development and Agricultural Surpluses

Matthew J. Kust

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