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Add to that fertile soils and some of the world’s greatest hydro-power potential, and the DRC should be a regional, if not continental, economic powerhouse.
Indeed, Poland, with its rich Jewish heritage and history, was believed to be among the most fertile environments for a Jewish revival after the fall of communism.
A famine in a country as fertile as Ukraine was hard to imagine before it happened.
For poorer rural areas, this means creating a fertile environment for entrepreneurs and small power producers to develop mini-grids – generally powered by solar, small hydro, or solar-diesel hybrids – that can bring electricity to communities that would otherwise wait for years for grid connections.
For example, disputes over fertile land and fresh water fueled the war in Darfur, and even the current crisis in Syria – one of the greatest sources of human displacement today – began after successive droughts pushed Syrians from rural areas into cities.
And social protest has found fertile ground everywhere: a sense that the “system” has failed, and the conviction that even in a democracy, the electoral process will not set things right – at least not without strong pressure from the street.
This obscures potential conflicts of interest, creates plausible deniability for state actors intervening in foreign information environments, and creates fertile ground for bots to thrive.
A mixture of instability, government weakness, and ideology in countries such as Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and Nigeria are providing fertile territory for terrorists to organize, train, and mount operations – much as they did in Afghanistan did a decade ago.
The soils of Uruguayan pampas are among the most fertile in the world.
Instead, the continued divergence of economic systems has been a fertile source of trade friction.
In a world increasingly dominated by the forces of free markets, France may be naturally fertile ground for a Front National phenomenon.
Gaza’s poverty was fertile ground for Islamic radicalism.
When sea levels rise, those island-state inhabitants, living just a meter or two above sea level, will be the first to be driven off their land, followed by tens of millions of people farming small plots in fertile delta regions in Bangladesh, Southeast Asia, and Egypt.
The current focus on austerity and structural reform carries severe social and economic risks, in part because disenchanted electorates are fertile ground for extremist parties.
It should come as no surprise that the group known in the region as Daesh (the Islamic State) believes that it can find fertile ground for recruitment in this vast population of dispossessed and disaffected young people.
Because growing public distrust of the cognoscenti provides fertile ground to demagogues, it poses a threat to democracy.
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, for example, have shown that white rhinos rarely produce fertile offspring in captivity.
The American occupiers of Iraq, through their policy of “de-Baathification,” left Iraq without an army or a government, which proved to be fertile ground for Sunni insurgents, al-Qaeda, and violent Shia groups.
If so, then would it not be acceptable for "family balancing," when a fertile couple with three boys strongly desires a girl, or if a couple wants to choose the sex of their first-born child?
As many of Lebanon’s poorest are Shia, this provides fertile ground for Hezbollah recruiters.
In a matter of weeks, Bank Underground already has established itself as a fertile source of provocative ideas.
Efforts by external actors to keep Assad in power infuriate many Syrians and other Sunni Muslims, creating even more fertile ground for ISIS recruiters.
As water becomes increasingly scarce in traditionally fertile zones such as the Indo-Gangetic Plain, rising seas will ruin vast swathes of farmland.
An openly anti-euro political party has emerged, and, though it did not make it into the Bundestag in September’s general election, it has fertile ground to grow.
Now, memory laws have become one of the preferred instruments of nationalist populists attempting to consolidate their own power – and to incite the very xenophobic nationalism that once provided fertile soil for the Holocaust.
Increasing the nitrate levels in groundwater is hardly a hallmark of sustainability, especially with many of the world’s most fertile farming regions in the throes of drought.
Whether it makes sense for leftists to advocate exit hinges on whether a nation-state freed from EU institutions provides more fertile ground for cultivating a progressive agenda of redistribution, labor rights, and anti-racism.
Feelings of dispossession and disenfranchisement are fertile ground for populists.
Even though we have fertile land, water and hardworking people, somehow we have not managed to master the process of adding value to what we produce and have, as a consequence, been reduced to being at the whim of the world's unpredictable and capricious commodity markets.
In Bangladesh, where millions of people live on fertile but flood-prone river deltas, the non-profit organization Islamic Relief found that by raising the land on which people lived, it could provide long-term protection from floods at a cost of £400 ($525) per family.
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