On 6 August, I had an opportunity to deliver the 11th Annual Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Lecture at the University of Limpopo. The theme was on the role of agriculture in improving rural development.

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Glenn Denning is Director of the Earth Institute's Millennium Development Goals Centre in Nairobi, in which he played a lead role in its establishment. He joined the Institute at Columbia University ...

ural development globally faces interconnected challenges, including poverty, food insecurity and lack of economic opportunities, inadequate infrastructure and the impacts of climate change. These ...

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The International Exchange Recommendations for Rural Craftspeople, an event under this year's Chinese Farmers' Harvest ...