But with so much fertile, productive land degraded each ... pushing forward to green 100 million hectares of degraded land across Africa. A similar replanting initiative in China and Mongolia's ...

Cotton transformed the United States, making fertile land in the Deep South ... To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African Americans were carried off into the Deep South.

The descriptive findings reveal five key features of land markets in Africa today (figure): The amount of land ... The main exception is Niger, where land is less fertile and cultivation more ...

Global evidence suggests that well-functioning land institutions and appropriate land policies could greatly help African countries respond to the challenges of climate change, urban expansion, ...

Ancient Egyptians called their land "Kemet," which meant "black," after the black fertile silt-layered soil ... entire nation and a good part of the African continent.