Sub-Saharan Africa

An forested area in the tropics marked by substantial rainfall.

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

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.

The belief that non-human entities have spirits, prominent among hunter-gatherers yet evolving into subsequent cultures.

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

Currency from another country.

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

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

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

A Somali-based militant Islamic group.

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

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