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...that it signed a 99-year lease to farm oil palms and corn on more than 2.5 million acres of land in Madagascar. A Madagascar land minister refuted the claim, however, saying the agreement allowed Daewoo only the right to search for about 250,000 acres of arable farmland. Other countries being scouted...
...agencies and other critics call Nkunda a power-obsessed warlord whose troops have raped and terrorized civilians in a quest to control a part of Congo with rich farmland and valuable mineral deposits. Nkunda, of course, sees things differently. He professes to be a protector and liberator of ethnic Tutsis like himself, still hunted by Rwandan Hutus who crossed the border into Congo after the genocide of the mid-1990s...
...severe economic downturn, the U.S. - like other countries - would find it much harder to export its goods and services around the world. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 12 million American jobs depend on trade, including 1 in 5 factory jobs. One in 3 acres of U.S. farmland is planted for export, and many of the nation's biggest corporations, from Coca-Cola to Microsoft and Google, depend on substantial revenues from overseas...
...June of 2008, hidden on farmland in a small town in Tennessee, a village of nearly 100,000 people was constructed for four brief days, just at it has been every year since 2002. Since its inception, the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has grown in both size and scope into the summer music festival. I made the voyage to what’s been called this generation’s Woodstock, harboring an empty hope that the experience would be an appropriate comparison to that summer of ’69. I would like to believe that...
...Landscape in Flux, a remarkable exploration of the human impact on Europe's terrain. It's much more than just a catalog of environmental degradation. Franklin, 52, and a Magnum photographer for more than 30 years, found his early inspiration for the series on a 2003 trip through Andalucian farmland; it was there that he saw vast swaths of the countryside covered - and intriguingly altered - by plastic sheets designed to protect against the elements and infestation. Franklin then crisscrossed Europe (from Portugal to Russia, Norway to Greece) documenting the changes he saw. His startling work captures artificial beaches, groomed...