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The UN warns of a looming food crisis and the spotlight falls on an underperforming powerhouse. Plus, what next for UK aid?
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We're hosting a debate on the future of farming at the Development Studies Association conference, which we'll record as November's podcast. What should we ask our panelists?
High and volatile food prices, together with growing concern about climate change, population growth, and other pressures on land and resources, have pushed food production up the international agenda.
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Anti-slavery activists are fighting to stop former masters using the crisis to recapture Malians whom they see as their property
For the estimated 800,000 people of "slave descent" in Mali, life is precarious at the best of times. In the most extreme cases, people descended from slaves are treated as objects and their children do not belong to them but to their "masters".
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When 23 Chinese cocklepickers died in 2004, their families were left grieving and deep in debt. Hsiao-Hung Pai went to Fujian province to talk to some of them
On the three-hour bus trip from the southern port city of Xiamen to central Fujian province, you move into a landscape of largely abandoned villages, once the homes of so many departed Chinese migrants. Here, around Fuzhou and the counties of Lianjiang, Changle, Fuqing and Putian, tens of thousands of villagers have left in the past three decades, driven away by low agricultural incomes and land developments that left them without compensation or livelihood. Seeking new ways to survive, they headed in waves for Japan, the US and Europe, including the UK.
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• wake-up call from former soldier
• distinction between war and peace dangerously blurred
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In August, floods swept through the Philippine capital Manila, forcing thousands of people to flee. Now, NGOs and scientists are exploring ways of improving the area's disaster resilience
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A discovery would turn one of the world's poorest countries into a multi-billion dollar economy, but who would benefit?
The prospect of oil under Lake Nyasa (known as Lake Malawi in Malawi) holds great promise for one of the poorest countries in the world. With an economy dependent on agriculture and one of the world's lowest GDP per capita, oil wealth could revolutionise the fortunes of Malawi's economy.
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Wannabe developers work on new traffic light system as country turns to hi-tech solutions for everyday problems
Like all Nairobians, Jessica Colaço hates traffic jams, especially the out-of-nowhere monster tailbacks that make travelling in this sprawling city a gut-clenching gamble. Unlike most drivers, Colaço is doing something about it.
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In our second feature on development thinking, we examine economist Andre Gunder Frank and his dependency theory
• Read part one on Walt Rostow and post-1945 development
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Trading their animals instead of holding on to large flocks and using their land in different ways may help herders in northern Kenya survive when drought and hunger strike
By 7.30am, the livestock market in Lodwar is packed with goats, traders and men in traditional dress. Lodwar is the economic centre of Kenya's northern county of Turkana, which, despite the apparent health of its animal stocks, is still struggling to recover from a drought in 2011 that left many dead and the majority of the region's people surviving on food aid. This year has been kinder, with just enough rainfall. Next year, though, another drought is forecast.
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