The government’s push for agro industrialization is reshaping Ghana’s agricultural landscape, with new processing plants for ...

We are entering a new economic paradigm based on clean energy and organic agriculture, says American economist and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin. Speaking with FoodNavigator ahead of his presentation ...

The Vanuatu Trade Commissioner to Ghana, Ambassador Professor Hugh Keku Aryee, has urged African leaders to take bold and ...

Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution, by Emma Griffin, Yale University Press, x + 303 pages, $45. For over a century the ruling interpretations of the industrial revolution ...

We are in the midst of what many are calling the Fourth Industrial Revolution, or Industry 4.0. This is a time of disruption, massive change, opportunities, and significant risks. Fortunes will shift, ...

Michel Pimbert receives funding from the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC), Oxfam-Novib, Sida, and The Christensen Fund. The Green Revolution that began in the 1940s brought modern methods to ...

Late colonial sugar cane production in Java was characterised by the heavy use of (chemical) fertiliser in tandem with labour-intensive techniques and industrial work processes in the field. This ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Some periods in our history are so transformative that they create a clear divide between ...

The Industrial Revolution in the U.S. was a pivotal period of rapid technological advancement and socio-economic transformation. Following the early stir in Great Britain, the US began its journey ...