By Sibout Nooteboom / Shaping Sustainable Futures conference series
In a world where raw power dominates, countries often find it difficult to govern their internationally embedded value chains from a position of equality. Knowledge diplomacy may help to overcome this difficulty, as experiences from the Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) suggest.
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By Gyinadu Abubakar and Evans Odoom / Shaping Sustainable Futures conference series
When classical agrarian theory points to rising food prices as the driver of land value, it assumes a single, agricultural use for land. David Ricardo’s rent model is a good example: more demand for corn raises the returns to fertile land and—because the soil’s productive capacity is essentially fixed—landowners capture higher rents. But in many contemporary rural landscapes this model misses a crucial detail: land is multi‑functional. Productive cocoa farms in Ghana—particularly in the Western North, Ashanti, Bono, and Eastern regions—sit atop significant gold deposits, creating a conflict between agriculture and mining.
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