World view News, analysis and insights from around the globe, edited by Katie McQuater Sponsor We wanted to look at the impact of elections on countries and we were interested in the question of if you participate in a good election, do you become more democratic? Chatbot research has found that South Africans are most likely to eat chocolate on a Thursday (p16) (p10) A programme giving women in Uganda, Rwanda and Ghana 8 a week for 100 weeks is helping families to have a better future (p14) Homesteads have survived and ourished in America on the basis that they can rely on family. Where they would have typically recruited family members, farms are now becoming dependent on hiring skilled labourers In 1990, small and medium-sized farms accounted for almost half of all agricultural production in the US and, today, it is less than a quarter (p12) (p12) 9