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Complex global issues like rising food prices, a changing climate, and predictions that a 70 % increase in food production will be needed by 2050 to feed the earth’s projected 9 billion people requir

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While there has been much discussion of the importance of innovation in African agriculture, remarkably little has focused on mobile pastoral systems. Everyone agrees that science, technology and inn

A series of shocks have launched the global payments industry into a transition that promises to redefine parts of the value chain for years to come. In advanced economies, the financial crisis has d

The world of peace operations has changed tremendously in recent decades and will surely continue to do so in the future. That’s not exactly news. But how will it change? What will be the drivers and

Explains resource peaking and energy depletion and how this process is likely to affect us. Energy decline explains much of why nations and the global economy are behaving the way they are and why e

Peak oil does not mean that oil production ends. It refers to the maximum oil production capacity, after which oil production goes into a terminal decline until nearly ending by the end of the centur

Looks at the world’s possible reaction to peak oil by analyzing the experiences of 3 countries that experienced oil disruptions in the past and derives clues from their respective handling of the cri