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Malawi: Irrigation, Rural Livelihoods and Agricultural Development Project, and Agricultural Development Program Support Project Format Project Background and Description Malawi is one of the poorest countries in Africa, and as the dominant economic activity in rural areas, agriculture plays a crucial role in poverty reduction. With high population growth rates, increasing land degradation, and high susceptibility to climate shocks, Malawi will need to increase its agricultural production substantially and sustainably to feed the growing population on a shrinking per capita farm size. Yields ...

While nobody could have anticipated the challenges of 2020, the right-of-way industry worked through difficult issues to move critical infrastructure projects forward last year. Please join our Eminent Domain & Valuation Group for “Eminent Domain in 2020: A Year in Review” on February 11, 2021, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. PT. Our panel will discuss decisions in key cases and trends from California and around the country that will continue to impact the right-of-way industry going forward, including new opinions addressing issues that continue to vex right-of-way practitioners, such as...

Non-Resident Scholar Shahrokh Fardoust is a research professor at the Institute of the Theory and Practice of International Relations at the College of William and Mary. He has more than 30 years’ experience in crafting economic development policy and analyzing the global economy and prospects. From 2008 to 2011, he was director of strategy and operations for development economics at the World Bank, where he contributed to the research and policy priorities of the chief economist and ensured the operational relevance of the Bank's research. His previous senior positions at the World Bank in...

A regional group is forming to improve career and technical education for students in the Roanoke Valley and Alleghany Highlands. A 2020 study of career and technical education programs at K-12 schools and community colleges in eight localities revealed potential to better connect students with careers in trades, services and industry, said Morgan Romeo, executive director for the nonprofit Virginia Career Works of the Blue Ridge. “We’re trying to figure out who from the schools is going to represent,” Romeo said of the assembling collaborative. “It’s probably going t...