This will require devoting a substantial share of public resources to the agricultural sector and improvements to the legal and institutional environment to encourage Ethiopian farmers to invest in their land and innovate.

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Resources are scarce because of the harsh environment of the highland plateau and limited agricultural space in the lowlands.

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Commodities, such as oil, agricultural resources, and precious metals, like gold and silver, will all be big winners in this negative real rate environment.

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At a time of massive and rapid increase in agricultural productivity, when natural resources still seemed limitless to the casual eye, it changed our understanding of the environment and of our role in it.

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