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More and more, the candidate turns out to be a woman, under 40 or both. Even more often, the ideal choice is an immigrant to the U.S. who can take back to the country of her birth the skills and experience honed in her adopted land. Rebecca Weiner, a China consultant who has lived in the country on and off since 1985, says she has seen an evolution of expats there from the 1980s, when corporations sent anyone who stuck his hand up, to the booming 1990s, when they sent over any heavy hitter, regardless of adaptability, to today, when...
Real reform, Babson says, would require North Korea to abandon its pipe dream of agricultural self-sufficiency--with a dearth of arable land, the country is literally dirt poor--and invest in labor-intensive manufacturing. But rebuilding the country's roads and ports and installing a reliable electrical grid would take billions of dollars in international loans--hardly a bright prospect given the country's history of defaulting on its obligations...
...commercial operations are still gobbling up family farms and producing an increasing share of farm output. But in some cases, rather than demolishing yet another farmhouse and barn and turning that small portion of the land over to industrial cultivation, new owners will put those buildings and a few acres on the market untouched, and find ready buyers among the city slickers yearning to raise llamas or alpacas or grow grapes or lavender...
...curious new customer at the local supply store. Dude farmers, says Carol Ekarius, author of Hobby Farm: Living Your Rural Dream for Pleasure and Profit, are "picking up bales of hay in their Jaguar." Amusing as that is, the results are not all good. Hobby farmers drive up land prices in hot areas. They also raise big-picture concerns about total farm output. Hobbyists get far less yield per acre than the lifetime pros, and in times of food shortage they would further crimp the supply, usda officials warn...
...there appears to be no stopping the trend, which is fueled not just by retirees getting in touch with the land but also by a rapid rise in the market for organic foods, which these farms tend to produce. If it sounds like something you'd like...