Sri Lanka

The island of Sri Lanka is 65,610 km², and is densely populated with 21.8 million people . The location, lying 50 km south of India, gave the island a strategic importance as trade shipping routes opened up around the world. This

Ulaanbaatar - The Ger District, photo by Bob Glennan, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license

Mongolia

Mongolia is a large land-locked country of 157 million hectares, bordering Russia to the north and China on all other sides. It is situated on high plateaus with an average altitude of 1,580m above sea level, and over 80% of the country

Ethiopia

Located in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia is ecologically and culturally highly diverse and the most populous landlocked country worldwide. Its economy largely depends on agriculture and agricultural commodity exports. Farming and herding

Wood truck, photo by CIFOR, 2012, CC BY-NC 2.0 license

Cameroon

Cameroon has an abundance of natural resources, and forests in particular. Despite rapid urbanization, more than two thirds of the population still depend on agriculture. After independence in 1960 and reunification in 1961, cotton,

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