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China goes gourmet with foie grasYanqing, China (AFP) Feb 17, 2010 China's ever-growing taste for luxury goods is extending into the culinary world - and that's good news for Jean-Marie Vallier, who runs a duck farm and foie gras factory outside Beijing. Two years ago, French group Euralis - the world leader in foie gras production - invested 2.7 million dollars in the facilities, aimed at producing the delicacy for high-end restaurants under the Rougie brand. As the tastes and budgets of China's growing middle class expand, so does the demand for upmarket W ... read more |
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Durham, N.C. (UPI) Feb 12, 2009 Global food security could be enhanced if developed nations increased aid for sustainable seafood production in developing nations, U.S. scientists said. Seafood is a key source of protein for nearly 3 billion people but lack of a coordinated policy worldwide threatens the planet's seafood supply, a group of economists and marine scientists wrote in a recent issue of Science. "In ... more  
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 14, 2010Desperate Haitians began lining up well before dawn on Sunday for tarpaulins distributed to those left homeless by last month's earthquake, although many said they needed tents instead. With the coming rainy season threatening to worsen already squalid conditions in makeshift camps across the capital, aid organizations have been seeking to distribute tarps for up to 1,500 families per day. ... more  
Moscow (AFP) Feb 11, 2010Amid a huge bounty of contraband goods seized recently at a Russian airport, one far-out find floored customs officials: chunks of meteorite. "On the customs declaration, the smugglers identified it as granite for construction and decoration of office space," Larisa Ledovskikh, a spokeswoman for customs at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, told AFP on Thursday. "But our officials could see it ... more |
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Urbanization And Export Crops Drive DeforestationNew York NY (SPX) Feb 12, 2010 The drivers of tropical deforestation have shifted in the early 21st century to hinge on growth of cities and the globalized agricultural trade, a new large-scale study concludes. The observations starkly reverse assumptions by some scientists that fast-growing urbanization and the efficiencies of global trade might eventually slow or reverse tropical deforestation. The study, which covers most of the world's tropical land area, appears in this week's early edition of the journal Nature Geoscience. ... read more |
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