You are the head of an international granting agency that assists farmers with soil conservation and sustainable agriculture. You have $10 million to disburse. Your agency’s staff has decided that the funding should go to (1) farmers in an arid area of Africa that is prone to salinization, (2) farmers in a fast-growing area of Indonesia where swidden agriculture is practiced, (3) farmers in Argentina practicing no-till agriculture, and (4) farmers in a dryland area of Mongolia undergoing desertification. What types of projects would you recommend funding in each of these areas, how would you apportion your funding among them, and why?

"[because of the emancipation proclamation] the condition of things [became] … unsettled, revolutionary, with nothing clearly defined, neither slave nor slaveholder having any rights which they felt bound mutually to respect … slave property in the state of missouri was almost a dead weight to the owner; he could not sell because there were no buyers."—h.c. bruce, a former slave in missouri what does this excerpt suggest about the effects of the emancipation proclamation? a. it also undermined slavery in the border states despite not being in effect there.b. it caused complete disintegration of southern society in the states that seceded.c. it led to slave owners not even trying to stop their slaves from leaving the farms.d. it prevented riots or chaos as both owners and slaves simply ignored each other.