Violent conflict is a major cause of acute food crises. In 2021, at least 155 million people in
10 countries were severely food insecure and eight of those countries were experiencing …

This article is the third in a series of historical reviews on sub-Saharan Africa (SSA),
exploring why agricultural production and irrigation schemes are underperforming, and how …

Land use is central to addressing sustainability issues, including biodiversity conservation,
climate change, food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable energy. In this paper, we …

We discuss recent trends in agricultural productivity in Africa and highlight how
technological progress in agriculture has stagnated on the continent. We briefly review the …

The tropics contain the overwhelming majority of Earth's biodiversity: their terrestrial,
freshwater and marine ecosystems hold more than three-quarters of all species, including …

In this article, I contribute to theorization of the modern era as the Plantationocene, a concept
grounded in life on the land and centered around the role of the plantation in sustaining a …

Research suggests that the scale of human population and the current pace of its growth
contribute substantially to the loss of biological diversity. Although technological change and …

Although global food demand is expected to increase 60% by 2050 compared with
2005/2007, the rise will be much greater in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Indeed, SSA is the …

Numerous sources provide evidence of trends and patterns in average farm size and
farmland distribution worldwide, but they often lack documentation, are in some cases out of …

In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance
of Indonesia's contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of …