The slaughter of half a million Tutsis by rival Hutu in Rwanda in 1994.
The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.
The amount of greenhouse gases produced for any given person, entity or practice.
A crop that is easy to bring to market and is also considered a primary good, such as wheat.
The downsides of a heavy reliance on one or more primary commodities such as oil, that include corruption, wildly fluctuating government revenues and stunted economic development
The belief that non-human entities have spirits, prominent among hunter-gatherers yet evolving into subsequent cultures.
An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.
Name given to a series of innovations that were especially prominent from the late 1960s to the 1970s, that increased agriculture production through new high-yielding varieties of crops, irrigation, and the use pesticides and fertilizers.
A grassy plain that contains few trees.
A giant continent that broke up around 180 million years into Africa, Australia, Antarctica, India and South America.
A French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.
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