The United Nations’ first global assessment of the planet’s land resources makes for grim reading when it comes to agriculture. It warns that a quarter of all farmland is already highly degraded at a time when the world’s population is growing exponentially. The UN estimates that farmers need to produce 70 percent more food by […]
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Biography
Hans Binswanger is a development economist and freelance consultant based in South Africa. He has been a manager in the World Bank’s central Rural Development Department, as well as in the Latin America and Africa regions. He has assisted a number of countries in the development of agricultural and rural development strategies and in the design of community-driven development programs and HIV/AIDS programs.
