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Fertile markets
As rural depopulation accelerates, firms are finding ways to ensure city-dwellers maintain their connection to the soil. Here are three businesses ploughing their own furrows to get the countryside growing again.
Part with the furniture
Investing in designer furniture can be profitable. With expert advice on everything from Prouvé to Eames, we reveal how to take your pieces from your home to the auction house and earn a return.
Plugged in
Honda’s Super Cub scooter is entering a petrol-free future as the EV-Cub. The original 1958 curves remain, with added requirements for affordable green transport.
Trade routes
From fashion brands in Budapest to Tokyo’s sport scene, we check out the places with markets worth monitoring in 2016.
Ordnance survey
From laser technology and missile deployment to regional rivalry, these are the military developments set to shape how nations make foreign policy over the coming year.
Tools gold
With big-box retail struggling, it's time for a revival of inner-city hardware hubs. In Italy, where knowledge and service rule, they have a model worth copying for the DIY sector.
Reportage: Fabric of society
The textile-and-clothing industry has always been integral to Europe’s economy. Despite Asia’s recent dominance, German looms and presses are still whirring away as tried-and-tested companies are brought back into the fold.
Calm oasis
Many Sydneysiders – young families as well as up-and-coming creatives – are breathing new life into this idyllic community on the Lower North Shore.
Southern Belle
Megan Billings reporting from Church Hill: The heart of the old American South is being revitalised by community funding and innovators looking for a new challenge.
Wine special: South Tyrol
A new generation of wine producers in South Tyrol has shifted the focus from quantity to quality, now successfully concentrating on what makes the tipple from this region so special. We visit Merano Wine…
