At the beginning of 2007 there were 4,755,100 hectares of utilized agricultural area.

The BRICS countries are home to around half of the world s population and the bulk of unexploited economic potential.

The US Defense Department has valued Afghanistan s untapped mineral deposits at 1 trillion.

In the late 1980s, Grameen started to diversify by attending to underutilized fishing ponds and irrigation pumps like deep tube wells.

Otherwise, smaller groups of armed militants supported, or even manipulated, by external actors will dictate Syria s future.

Nobel Prize nominee Hernando De Soto recognized that the key to economic liftoff for most developing countries is to tap the vast amounts of uncapitalized land.

Its hypothesis is that there is a great deal of slack in poor countries, so simple changes can make a big difference.

Several reports stress the need for better water management for the rehabilitation of developed land, combined with the management of pastoral and agricultural forest pastoral lands.

Promoting the investment climate to enable the private sector to realize the opportunities given by the largely unexploited resources in the food processing sector

My best bet is that these countries will maintain rapid growth as they shift their economic focus to their vast and untapped domestic markets.

In the past, to address important financial constraints, the General Conference had frequently suspended the relevant financial regulations and authorized the retention of unutilized balances of appropriation.

The use of unencumbered balances of appropriations due for adjustment to Member States that had fully paid their contributions should be an option open to the Member States concerned.

Such a committee would enable the exploitation of untapped potential of the regional and subregional organizations in the prevention and settlement of conflicts and other important regional problems.

The factors that drove the Putin era of rapid economic growth high and rising oil prices, cheap labor, and unused production capacity are all exhausted.

With so much underutilized productive capacity today, and with immediate economic prospects so dismal, the risk of serious inflation is minimal.

He envisions a new regional order under Turkish leadership, based on a realignment between Turks and Kurds that underpins a strategic partnership for exploiting the region s last untapped energy resources.

In the 1980s, only 3 of all Colombians resided in the Pacific lowlands, a region of jungle and swamp with considerable but little exploited potential in minerals and other resources.

He also explained that Puntland was essentially rich in natural resources that were unexploited due to an inability to attract foreign investment, but that, ironically, the coastal waters and fisheries areas were ruthlessly exploited by foreign vessels.

And we all pay dearly for solid waste costs, health problems associated with pollution and more odiously, the cost of imprisoning our young black and Latino men, who possess untold amounts of untapped potential.

In fact, both the critics fears and the optimists euphoria are unwarranted. With so much underutilized productive capacity today, and with immediate economic prospects so dismal, the risk of serious inflation is minimal.

Given this, officials, investors, and business leaders in search of revolutionary ideas, cutting edge solutions, and untapped talent should not allow turbulence in some societies, or tranquility in others, to influence their decisions excessively.

The urge to exploit under utilized resources should not be confined to material assets. The McKinsey Global Institute has recently studied internet based approaches to the labor market and the challenge of matching demand for talent and skills with supply.

All too often, notions such as reserve agricultural land, or idle land, are manipulated out of existence, sometimes being used to designate land on which many livelihoods depend, and that is subject to long standing customary rights.