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China leads decline in world rural povertyRome (AFP) Dec 6, 2010 China has led a dramatic decline in rural poverty rates in many parts of the world over the past decade, a report released on Monday by the UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development showed. The decline is mainly due to increased production and higher levels of private investment in the farming sector, as well as increased urbanisation across the developing world, economists from the Rome-based IFAD said. Greater productivity of farmers and higher global food prices have also helped, a ... read more |
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 India Launch Of Food Security Report Focuses On Rice The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Asia Society launched a new food security report for Asia in Mumbai, calling for increased investment in rice research. The report, Nev ... more | .. |
 Farmers Slowed Down By Hunter-Gatherers As Ancestors Fought For Land Agricultural - or Neolithic - economics replaced the Mesolithic social model of hunter-gathering in the Near East about 10,000 years ago. One of the most important socioeconomic changes in hum ... more | .. |
 Rains will not stop bumper Australian crop: forecaster Australia is set to post record winter crops despite flood rains and locust plagues in the country's east and a dry spell in the west, the national forecaster said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Ethanol in crosshairs as deadline nears on tax credit Ethanol, once seen as an answer to US energy problems, is seeing political support waning as a deadline nears for Congress to decide on extending tax subsidies for the widely used biofuel. ... more |
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  Land disputes hitting Indian infrastructure schemes Protests against a proposed Indian nuclear power plant this weekend highlight a growing problem facing developers, experts say, as the country tries to upgrade or build much-needed infrastructure. ... more | .. |
 Hunting moose, a Swedish passion With a thick carpet of snow softening his footsteps, Stefan Nordstroem creeps slowly between the tall pine and birch trees, his rifle at the ready. ... more | .. |
  Mideast prays for rain as balmy weather threatens drought Israeli firefighters are battling a deadly forest fire as unseasonably warm weather blankets a tinder dry Middle East, and some countries are even organising prayers for rain. ... more | .. |
 Agriculture And International Climate Change Negotiations Not content to see farming remain outside the international climate change negotiations under way in Mexico, a broad coalition of 17 organizations will bring together more than 400 policy makers, fa ... more |
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 Rewarding Eco-Friendly Farmers Can Help Combat Climate Change Financially rewarding farmers for using the best fertilizer management practices can simultaneously benefit water quality and help combat climate change, finds a new study by the University of Maryl ... more | .. |
 Court Affirms Right Of Local Governments To Protect Farmland California's agricultural economy and culture deserve protection. That was the conclusion of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in a unanimous decision on Monday. The Court upheld a Stanislaus Count ... more | .. |
  Electrified Nano Filter Promises To Cut Costs For Clean Drinking Water With almost one billion people lacking access to clean, safe drinking water, scientists are reporting development and successful initial tests of an inexpensive new filtering technology that kills u ... more | .. |
 Study: Africa capable of feeding itself If African leaders demonstrate political leadership the continent could both feed itself and become a major agricultural exporter, a study says. ... more |
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  Google to pay couple one dollar for trespassing Google has agreed to pay a Pennsylvania couple one dollar for trespassing on their property while taking photographs for its "Street View" online mapping service. ... more | .. |
 India loans S.Leone 30 million dollars for water supply Sierra Leone will receive a loan of 30 million dollars (23 million euros) from India to revamp its aging water system in the capital and a town in the east of the country, the government said Wednesday, ... more | .. |
Climate change to worsen food security, UN talks told Surging prices for staple foods in 2008 and 2010 may be just a foretaste of the future as the impacts of climate change and population growth combine, a report issued at the UN talks in Cancun said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 ESA Attending UN Climate Conference Representatives from 194 countries have gathered at the 2010 UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, to continue working towards tackling climate change. ESA is attending 'COP16' to up ... more |
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 Freshwater Mussels Discovered In Urban Delaware River Scientists working with the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary and The Academy of Natural Sciences have made an important discovery in the Delaware River between Chester, Pennsylvania, and Trenton ... more | .. |
 Predatory Bugs Can Save Cornfields One of the worst pests of corn in the world, the corn rootworm, may owe its worldwide success partly to its larvae's nasty, sticky blood. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entomologist Jon ... more | .. |
 Forest Imaging In Gabon For UN How much forest cover remains? What is the land like - is it forest, bush, water or some other type of landscape? Has forest cover been destroyed by human beings to make way for other uses? Fo ... more | .. |
 Water Resources Played Important Role In Patterns Of Human Settlement Once lost in the mists of time, the colonial hydrology of the northeastern United States has been reconstructed by a team of geoscientists, biological scientists and social scientists, including Uni ... more |
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 Novel Services For Tropical Forest Monitoring With Satellite A consortium led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is developing methods for monitoring tropical forests using satellite data in a project funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the Euro ... more | .. |
 Mapping Mangroves By Satellite Mangroves are among the most biologically important ecosystems on the planet, and a common feature of tropical and sub-tropical coastlines. But ground-based evidence suggests these vital coastal for ... more | .. |
 Gene Transfer From Transgenic Crops: A More Realistic Picture A new data-driven statistical model that incorporates the surrounding landscape in unprecedented detail describes the transfer of an inserted bacterial gene via pollen and seed dispersal in cotton p ... more | .. |
 Australia admits defeat on 90-year NZealand apple ban Australia Tuesday agreed to allow the import of New Zealand apples for the first time in almost 90 years, but said it would first review quarantine to make sure they were free of pests. ... more |
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