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Low-hanging fruits are sometimes the sweetest: how tree-sourced foods can help transform the global food system

Low-hanging fruits are sometimes the sweetest: how tree-sourced foods can help transform the global food system

The global food system is dominated by a limited number of actors and mainly focusses on the production of only a handful of relatively innutritious foods. The system in its ...

No choice but to grow: debt and economic growth in rural Colombia by Lorenza Arango Vásquez

No choice but to grow: debt and economic growth in rural Colombia by Lorenza Arango Vásquez

A majority of Colombia’s rural areas now hold large levels of interest-bearing debt as a result of the increased popularity of bank credits. This article through interviews with debtor peasants ...