Cultural diversity encompasses a wider range of ideas and notions focussing on different products, industries and methods of expression. Deciding what makes this range of activity 'cultural' is not fixed, but changes from individual to individual. It's impossible to find a single magical 'core'...

Is there something really new about "land grab" except its extent? What is wrong with an investment contract allowing the holder to buy a farm and to export wheat to Saudi Arabia, or soybeans and maize as cattle feed to Korea, or to plant and process sugar cane and palm oil into ethanol for...