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		<title>End of an Era</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In late January I was fully prepared to depart for Nepal on a volunteer business assignment with the Agriculture and Forestry University of Nepal.  The Nepal in-country team was scheduled to meet me at Katmandu Airport and escort me to my assignment. The assignment was to train graduate students in agribusiness management with a focus &#8230; <a href="http://www.businesstripstotheedge.com/nepal-and-bhutan/end-of-an-era" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">End of an Era</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>No Strike Out in Rwanda</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Sep 2024 19:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It felt good to be back in Africa for the first time since the pandemic.&#160; The location of my volunteer assignment was Rwanda. The country is famous or infamous for two things: tracking mountain gorillas in the Virunga Mountains and the site of the genocide of Tutsis in 1994. The former are a critically endangered &#8230; <a href="http://www.businesstripstotheedge.com/rwanda/no-strike-out-in-rwanda" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">No Strike Out in Rwanda</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Timely Lesson in Volcanology</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[bill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2023 06:36:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have just competed my third volunteer assignment in the Philippines in past year. I do enjoy this country: friendly people, great food, and they speak English. This time I worked at the southern tip of Luzon, the country’s largest island. Larger than all the other 7,100 islands. I was asked to conduct an enterprise &#8230; <a href="http://www.businesstripstotheedge.com/philippines/a-timely-lesson-in-volcanology" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A Timely Lesson in Volcanology</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>A Visit from the Soucouyant</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[bill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2023 19:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Whenever I greet a stranger on the street in this Caribbean nation the reply to my, “Good morning,” is invariably, “Yea Mon.” Sounds like a Jamaican greeting, but I reported from that country last autumn, so this is not Jamaica.  But which country is it? Throughout this blog post I’ll give you hints.  The first &#8230; <a href="http://www.businesstripstotheedge.com/trinidad-and-tobago/a-visit-from-the-soucouyant" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A Visit from the Soucouyant</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Chocolate, Rice, and Balut</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[bill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2023 10:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The chairman of HMPC cooperative is one of 35 cacao doctors in the organization. He visits cacao farmers to help them improve their yields. Previously he was a MILF commander.&#160; And before you smirk at that acronym, here in the Philippines it refers to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. The MILF is, we hope, a &#8230; <a href="http://www.businesstripstotheedge.com/philippines/chocolate-rice-and-balut" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Chocolate, Rice, and Balut</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The left &#8211; Right Dilemma</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[bill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 20:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few days into my assignment in Jamaica I got a haircut.&#160; The three local customers before me had respectively: a shaved head, bare sidewalls with cornrows atop, and a lightning-bolt zig zag patterned into his sidewalls.&#160; None of the preceding was my style. But the barber executed my haircut fairly well…with a somewhat overdone &#8230; <a href="http://www.businesstripstotheedge.com/jamaica/the-left-right-dilemma" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The left &#8211; Right Dilemma</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Witches of Siquijor</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[bill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 21:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When an NGO books my travel they do not always find a direct route to the assignment site.&#160; In this instance, to reach Manila I was sent Boston – Atlanta – Seoul – Manila.&#160; Sort of zig zagging across North America and Asia to reach Manila so that I could perform volunteer work.&#160; Such routing &#8230; <a href="http://www.businesstripstotheedge.com/philippines/the-witches-of-siquijor" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Witches of Siquijor</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Food Like never before</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[bill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2022 02:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My first assignment in Colombia was six years ago.&#160; I have now completed my second.&#160; This time I am working in Arauca, a town of nearly 100,000 just across the Arauca River from Venezuela. Due to unrest in Venezuela and poor relations between Colombia and its neighbor, the border is officially closed. Occasionally, one can &#8230; <a href="http://www.businesstripstotheedge.com/colombia/food-like-never-before" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Food Like never before</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nothing Sweeter than Honey</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[bill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2022 21:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Guyana.&#160; Not to be confused with the homophone, Ghana.&#160; For in that case you would be on the wrong continent (Africa.) Not to be confused with another homophone, Guyane.&#160; You’d be on the correct continent but in the wrong language group (French.) And let’s not forget the near-homographs: Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, New Guinea.&#160; &#8230; <a href="http://www.businesstripstotheedge.com/guyana/nothing-sweeter-than-honey" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Nothing Sweeter than Honey</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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		<title>On A COFFEE HIGH</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[bill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2021 19:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You are reading the first blog I have written in nearly two years.&#160; And that is because I am conducting my first on-the-ground assignment in nearly two years. Flying out of Atlanta, headed south, I sat next to a charming Ecuadorian grandmother.&#160; (I, by the way, am a charming American grandfather.) She kept trying unsuccessfully &#8230; <a href="http://www.businesstripstotheedge.com/ecuador/on-a-coffee-high" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">On A COFFEE HIGH</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
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