20211015 Thomson Reuters Foundation Aloysius Uche Ordu
Africa is the world’s breadbasket—or should be. It has vast arable land, grows a wide variety of crops and has vast irrigation potential with seven major rivers. Yet, Africa imported $43 billion worth of food items in 2019. Digital technologies … are eliminating the traditional inefficiencies of smallholder food production and helping to close the yield gap.
20210820 AP Douglas A. Rediker
[Even if the Taliban could get money from the IMF…the process] would take, I think, months at the earliest, if at all. […] The U.S. still retains a lot of political heft in the global, political and economic systems to twist some arms. The Taliban are not going to be popular.
20210525 World Trade Online Joshua Meltzer
[On provisions related to cybersecurity in USMCA and a digital trade agreement between the U.S. and Japan] It’s about information sharing and so forth, but I think it’s clearly the beginning of what I would expect to be a more elaborated set of ways that trade partners can cooperate on cyber issues, because I think this will be an increasingly important part of trade policy going forward.