Analysts who focus on the Asia-Pacific have long been ranting that Russia is not paying enough attention to what is going on in the region, especially Southeast Asia. The ASEAN population is neither aware of what interests Russia nor understands how Russian particpation in their ...
The Food Economy – El Niño’s First Casualty
A connection between ocean temperatures and food supplies may seem remote, but when the warm waters of ‘El Niño’ appear in the Eastern Pacific, half of the world has cause to worry. This ‘Little Boy’ – named after the Christ child in Spanish – can affect crops and food supplies over a wide arc from Brazil through Australia and the Philippines to East Africa. Nevertheless, although a warmer Pacific affects the...