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...Thomas Van Devender of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum found evidence that could explain why a once thriving Anasazi Indian community was abandoned 800 years ago. Simply stated, the Indians eventually used all the surrounding pine trees for their dwellings and firewood, depleting the woodland and eroding the farmland vital to the tribe's survival...
Ohmae is one of a number of businessmen and economists in Japan calling for significant restructuring of the economy. First, he wants to see a complete revision of Japan's land policy that would give protected farmland over to industrial and residential use. Another advocate of reform, Akio Morita, chairman of Sony, outlined in January a series of proposals for what he called a "new management philosophy" for Japanese business. In essence, he urged that companies be less aggressive in capturing markets, especially abroad. At home, he wrote, they should build a more humane and fair society by, among other...
While governments around the world are trying to get out of the business of state-owned industries, President Robert Mugabe is on the brink of nationalizing nearly half the white-owned farmland in Zimbabwe...
...unalterable figure is the amount of land -- 8,124 sq. mi. -- that makes El Salvador the most densely populated country in Central America. Disputes over property have often led to bloodshed. A military coup in 1979 was sparked in part by a plan to redistribute farmland, most of which is still owned by a tightly knit oligarchy. Since then, land reform has come to signify justice to those without property and communist conspiracy to those who stand to lose theirs...
...dreams of a wet Christmas, but that's what it was for thousands of Texans last week. Record-breaking December rains sent more than half a dozen rivers overflowing their banks, flooding homes, inundating farmland and drowning cattle in the central and southeastern parts of the state. The fast- rising waters left at least 15 people dead and caused damage estimated in the millions...