Climate change may be an “accelerant” for global cooperation, but it also poses significant social, political, and geopolitical challenges in Central Asia.
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India has allowed protectionist trade policy to guide its trade negotiations at the expense of membership in potentially beneficial FTAs, writes Amita Batra (JNU). 
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The writer says the government needs to look at redirecting the benefits of development more equitably among rural and urban citizens.
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China’s growing ability to alter and manipulate the physical environment could help advance its geopolitical ambitions.
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With salt, sugar and now onions in short supply, the government and lawmakers blame greedy traders for hoarding food to create artificial shortages that allows them to jack up prices.
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The value of Japan's agricultural and seafood exports rose 14.3 per cent in 2022 from a year earlier to 1.41 trillion yen ($11 billion), setting a record for the 10th consecutive year.
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Rural banks partnering with fintechs could enable access to financial services for over 70% of consumers in Southeast Asia who are unbanked or underserved.
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Public support from President Xi for cellular agriculture and synthetic dairy last year was a positive move, but China has never been the first one in the world to approve novel agrifood technology, writes Chinese agrifoodtech VC Bits x Bites.
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The Japanese government has announced a fresh round of incentives for people to move out of the Tokyo region. From April 2023, families seeking a new life in greener pastures will receive 1 million yen.
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While China is unlikely to let go of its claims in the South China Sea, Beijing will likely attempt to achieve them through economic and military influence.
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A toxic smog engulfs India's capital every winter, as particles from bonfires of crop stubble and vehicle exhausts hang in the air, but New Delhi is enforcing a ban on coal burning from this month that is forcing industry to shift to biomass.
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Leader des pays non alignés dans les années 1950, New Dehli profite du regain des tensions internationales, en Europe comme dans l’Indo-Pacifique, pour affirmer un rôle de pivot aux alliances multiples, que renforce son poids démographique et économique. Via Veronique PELOT, documentaliste
Veronique PELOT, documentaliste's curator insight,
January 25, 2023 4:43 AM
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$500 million policy-based loan to help the Government of the Philippines expand economic opportunities in agriculture while ensuring near- to long-term food security for the population.
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The production of opium in Myanmar has flourished since the military's seizure of power as the faltering economy has led more people toward the drug trade, according to a new United Nations report.
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Officially known as the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, it is a South Asian country possesses GDP of about $ 85 billion according to the statistics of world bank. Over the past few years, the contribution of agriculture sector in Sri Lana’s GDP has experienced a rising trend.
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Executives of 405 Chinese and foreign companies are confident in the Chinese economic outlook, as shown in a survey by Global Times Research Center, Global Times reported on Thursday.
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More than 1,700 people were killed and 8 million were displaced by recent flooding, which also destroyed about a million homes and businesses across the country.
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Major exporters of several commodities in South-east Asia are under scrutiny, said Sustainable Fitch in a report on Friday (Feb 3). This comes ahead of the European Union’s (EU) planned implementation of several directives related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) in the second quarter of this year.
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Fishery and aquaculture output can be sustainably expanded with care
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More than a dozen government agencies in China have vowed to make it easier for migrants in cities to tap into public services, such as healthcare, in a bid to boost economic activity
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Sugar cane fields in Australia’s northern Queensland are overrun with rats, threatening one of the region’s most valuable crops.
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La culture de l’opium a explosé au Myanmar depuis 2021 et la prise du pouvoir par les militaires, effaçant ainsi des années de progrès dans la lutte contre le trafic de drogues de 2014 à 2020, a indiqué, jeudi, l’agence des Nations Unies contre les drogues et le crime.
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Les discussions sont toujours en cours mais les pénuries de combustibles dues à la rigueur de l’hiver devraient contraindre les deux pays d’Asie centrale
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Manger des oignons et des œufs est devenu “un luxe” aux Philippines, le prix de ces denrées ne faisant qu’augmenter depuis plusieurs mois.
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