Sub-Saharan Africa

A country in which the city and the state are essentially one and the same.

Goods that come from agriculture, forestry, mining, and fishing.

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

A crop that is easy to bring to market and is also considered a primary good, such as wheat.

The region of the world that falls between the Tropic of Cancer (23.43 degrees North) and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.43 degrees South).

The amount of greenhouse gases produced for any given person, entity or practice.

The money that temporary and permanent migrants send back to their home country.

White Dutch settlers in South Africa. Also the name of their language.

A legal system based on the precepts of Islam.

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 French-based creole language spoken in Mauritius.

The slaughter of half a million Tutsis by rival Hutu in Rwanda in 1994.

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