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High School Lesson Plans: Environmental Resources

Previously filed under: Asia, Grades 9-12
These resources are appropriate for grade levels 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th.

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Primary School Lesson Plans: Global Climate

Previously filed under: South America, Grades K-2
These resources are appropriate for grade levels Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd.

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Elementary School Lesson Plans: Global Climate

Previously filed under: Europe and Middle East, Grades 3-5
These resources are appropriate for grade levels 3rd, 4th and 5th.

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Middle School Lesson Plans: Global Climate

Previously filed under: North America, Lesson Plans
These resources are appropriate for grade levels 6th, 7th and 8th.

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High School Lesson Plans: Global Climate

Previously filed under: North America, Grades 9-12
These resources are appropriate for grade levels 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th.

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High School Lesson Plans: Economics and Globalization

Previously filed under: North America, Lesson Plans
These resources are appropriate for grade levels 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th.

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Middle School Lesson Plans: Economics and Globalization

Previously filed under: South America, Lesson Plans
These resources are appropriate for grade levels 6th, 7th, 8th.

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High School Lesson Plans: Economic Development

Previously filed under: North America, Grades 9-12
These resources are appropriate for grade levels 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th.

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Making Waves: A Courageous Widow Opens Opportunities for Girls

Previously filed under: Asia, Success Stories
With the help of Mercy Corps, leaders like Tutinisso Nasarova are fighting to increase options for young women in rural Tajikistan.

Stories We're Watching

Remittances: Over the sea and far away

Economist - Special Report - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 08:05
For consumers who want to “wire” money to some far corner of the world, not much has changed since the days of the Old West. If you try to send a small amount of money from America to the Philippines, say, or Mexico, you will probably have to queue at a neighbourhood money-transfer agent and pay a fee that could easily reach 10% of the value of the remittance.

Mobile payments: A wealth of wallets

Economist - Special Report - Thu, 05/17/2012 - 08:05
Turn left off the main reception to PayPal’s offices in San Jose, open a nondescript door and you step into a garish living room dominated by a flat-screen television. This is a laboratory for what PayPal calls “couch commerce”: people sit in front of the television buying things with their mobile phones or tablet computers.

Expose, engage, empower: Connecting unlikely entrepreneurs in the mobile era

The infoDev team has taken a closer look at his and the other five finalists’ backgrounds, and we found some helpful insights about new sources of innovation, their promise, and their needs.

Breeding Wheat To Grow Where Other Plants Can’t

Fast Company's Co.Exist - Wed, 05/16/2012 - 14:00
We need to nearly double the amount of food we grow by mid-century if 9 billion people are going to have enough to eat. Yet most of the world’s prime farmland is already planted. The rest of the available land tends to lie under forests, or suffer from problems that keep it fallow. But feeding the world will mean redefining what is "arable" land.

More African nations hit agricultural investment target

Science and Development Network - Wed, 05/16/2012 - 10:45
Five more African countries have met the Maputo Declaration goal of investing ten per cent of their national budgets in agriculture.

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