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The AP reports the Nobel laureate agricultural scientist and Texas A&M professor's passing at the age of 95. Borlaug remained acti...

From an op/ed in Friday's Financial Times by Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda ( "Africa has to find its own road to prosperity...

In a post last fall ( "An Unprecedented Investment in Food Security" ), we noted the report by the Financial Times that the Korea...

In a post last month ( "An African Economist on Western Aid to Africa" ), we mentioned the Zambian-born economist and author Dambi...

In a recent post ( "The UN High Commissioner of Refugees Imitates The Onion" ), we mentioned the NYU development economist William...

On his Atlantic blog, Jeffrey Goldberg notes a similarity between the Israeli operation in Gaza and the American one, years ago, in Somalia...

Vaalco Energy (NYSE: EGY ) ended the week up over 20%, after releasing an update on its drilling program. From the release: HOUSTON, Dec. 3...

Yesterday, the Financial Times reported that South Korea's Daewoo Logistics had leased half the arable land on Madagascar ( "Daewo...

The CEO of Vaalco Energy (NYSE: EGY ), Robert L. Gerry III, was kind enough to spend a few minutes on the phone with me today. A few notes ...