A group of cacao farmers in Ecuador have become the world’s most unusual chocolate entrepreneurs by making and marketing their own chocolate.

The government announced a rural reform policy that for the first time would allow farmers to lease or transfer land-use rights, a step that advocates say would boost lagging incomes.

Chinese leaders have yet to announce details of a rural reform policy, contributing to speculation that officials are in disagreement on major aspects of the policy.

Chinese leaders have yet to announce details of a rural reform policy, contributing to speculation that officials are in disagreement on major aspects of the policy.

Chinese leaders have yet to announce details of a rural reform policy, contributing to speculation that officials are in disagreement on major aspects of the policy.

Cotton is at the core of Tajikistan’s economy and farmers are forced to grow cotton through a complex system of debts and obligations.

Landless peasants see President Fernando Lugo as their best chance in decades to help them win back land for small-scale cultivation.

Chinese leaders saidthat they would adopt a rural growth policy aimed at vastly increasing the income of China’s hundreds of millions of farmers by the year 2020.

The shift could draw hundreds of millions of farmers more firmly into China’s city-centered market economy.

The shift could draw hundreds of millions of farmers more firmly into the city-centered market economy.