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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

How do you grow rice faster?

3 billion people depend on rice for survival & owing to predicted population increases, land that provided enough rice to feed 27 people in 2010 will need to support 43 by 2050. In this week's podcast episode we ask: how do you grow rice faster?
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

Earthquakes, can we make smarter buildings?

Major earthquakes across the world have damaged or destroyed numerous buildings, bridges, and other structures. But is there a way of monitoring the building structures to see if it is at risk of falling after an earthquake has struck?
States of fragility (Forced Migration Review 43)

FMR 43 The displaced claiming their rights in fragile states

To date, displaced persons in fragile and conflict-affected states have had little success in claiming their rights for housing, land and property violations. Creative legal thinking and strategic litigation has the potential to change this.
DRC: Past. Present. Future? (Forced Migration Review 36)

FMR 36 Land, IDPs and mediation

Unmanaged resettlement of IDPs in eastern DRC might threaten an already fragile security situation.
DRC: Past. Present. Future? (Forced Migration Review 36)

FMR 36 Land and property disputes impeding return and reintegration

A survey conducted by UNHCR in 2009 in IDP camps in North Kivu shows that access to land is the second factor after security which prevents people from returning to their zone of origin.
1909: The People's Budget

Institute of Fiscal Studies - Current Issues in the Taxation of Land and Income: Part Two

Paul Johnson from the Institute of Fiscal Studies talks about current issues within land tax as part of the 1909 People's Budget Symposium.

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