The Batam Indonesia Free Trade Zone Authority signed MOUs to build the world's largest floating solar power plant to accelerate the shift toward renewable energy and reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
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India's most populous state will drop legal proceedings against farmers accused of burning crop waste, a major source of pollution, as the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party tries to placate growers ahead of elections next year to the state assembly. 
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Singapore is the first country in the world to approve cell-based meat, but that’s just one of the five reasons why the city-state is well-positioned to provide an enabling environment for food
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Experts say Taiwan can no longer rely on typhoons and heavy rain to supply water and must find alternatives.
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Scientific and technical research programmes can help ASEAN allay diplomatic issues and better manage the region’s haze pollution
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To foster innovation and promote agricultural modernisation, China launched an agricultural technology project where participants develop practical, cost-effective and environmentally sustainable technological solutions for working farms.
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China’s food security policies are part of a longstanding and larger calculus. The country's stockpiling of staples in recent years had exacerbated price swings in the global market. Beijing’s vision for how China will feed itself will affect how the rest of the world does the same.
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Chinese companies are building high-rise ‘hog hotels’ to prevent outbreaks of swine fever.
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The spread of the pandemic is a new challenge, and Egypt and Indonesia may share the same views on the questions of vaccine accessibility global supply.
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Le Cannabis sativa était utilisé pour ses fibres et ses qualités médicinales au début du néolithique, selon une étude publiée dans Science Advances. La consommation pour ses effets psychotropes serait plus récente et remonterait à 4 000 ans avant notre ère.
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D'après l'ONG, 2,5 milliards de tonnes de nourriture sont jetées chaque année dans le monde. C'est le double de ce qu'avait estimé l'ONU dans son dernier rapport sur le gaspillage paru il y a dix ans. WWF met aussi en garde contre l'impact du gaspillage alimentaire sur l'environnement.
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A new study has identified 2050 as the tipping point by which stakeholders in the Mekong Delta will no longer be able to mitigate the issue of saltwater intrusion, which has already devastated agriculture in parts of Vietnam’s leading rice-producing region.
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Australia needs to carefully navigate the well-known pitfalls of low-skilled temporary work visas
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The Philippines said on Wednesday it has approved the commercial propagation of genetically modified Golden Rice after more than a decade of field tests that drew strong opposition from anti-GMO activists.
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Sudhir Kumar Suthar writes: Apart from ecological impact, incentivising palm oil cultivation could have negative implications on farmer incomes, health, and food security in the long run
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The pandemic pushed 75-80 million people in developing Asia-Pacific region into extreme poverty in 2020
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Logistical difficulties amid extended lockdowns mean second-half shipments in the sector are predicted to fall 30 per cent year on year.
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Although the global agricultural industry is huge, it's not growing. The UNCDF wants to change this - with the help of agritech innovators.
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The tracklaying work for the first China-Russia railway bridge was completed on Tuesday and the project is set for a test run later in the month before initial operation by the year’s end, marking a major step forward in construction of the crucial infrastructure facility between the two countries.
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Hundreds of unemployed or struggling workers and homeless children are fed at Mehmankhana or ‘dining place for guests’.
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The rainfall in Central China’s Henan Province has caused distress in some areas over recent days. The extreme heavy rainfall in the city of Zhengzhou on Tuesday has caused waterlogging across urban areas. Although emergency rescues were launched at the first time, the disaster has affected local production and transport as reservoirs and rivers are still facing flood control dangers.
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Fruit-themed festivals and in-embassy tasting events have been rolled out by India’s government in recent weeks in a bid to boost flagging exports of the country’s national fruit.
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Opposés à la réforme des tarifs agricoles imposée par le gouvernement en septembre 2020, les agriculteurs bloquent les entrées de Delhi depuis huit mois. Jeudi, ils ont défilé près du Parlement afin d’obtenir le retrait définitif des textes incriminés.
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Le « riz doré », génétiquement modifié et riche en vitamine A, permettrait de lutter contre la cécité infantile. Les Philippines seront les premiers à le produire et à le commercialiser malgré l’opposition de certaines organisations de défense de l’environnement
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Regime clamps down on hoarding as rationing system on verge of collapse
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