Under a pitch-black night sky, a group of Vietnamese farmers planted rice this week in a paddy field on the outskirts of the capital Hanoi using head lamps to illuminate the water-logged ground in front of them.
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2020 has been designated as the official EU-China year. Chancellor Angela Merkel had organized a second EU-China Summit in Leipzig with all 27 Member States during Germany’s semester presidency. The hope was to come to concrete agreements on a number of stalled policy issues with China. Given the deep economic involvement in China, and its EU presidency starting from July 2020, Germany holds a significant role in the advancement of the EU-China agenda. 
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While the world fights to slow the spread of COVID-19, the worst pandemic experienced in a century, countries in South Asia are simultaneously responding to plagues of locusts, cyclones and a deadly livestock disease, all of which threaten to worsen hunger and the livelihoods of millions of people.
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More food companies such as Tesco have pledged to go cage-free. Suppliers need to catch up, but know-how is lacking. Can training centres in Indonesia and China plug the gap?
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A new report shows Chinese firms are unaware that deforestation risks associated with buying palm oil endangers their business. The solution starts with transparency.
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L’insecte ravageur prolifère depuis 2018 dans la péninsule arabique et se répand vers les pays africains et asiatiques. Des centaines de milliers d’hectares de culture sont touchés au risque d’aggraver la faim.
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China has been ahead of reopening its economy, unlike most countries, yet Beijing now faces new global scrutiny.
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On Thursday, US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said China’s top foreign policy official Yang Jiechi committed to honour all of his nation’s commitments under the trade deal.
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Le président Donald Trump n'exclut pas de suspendre toutes les relations, y compris économiques, avec Pékin, dans un contexte de tensions extrêmes entre les deux premières puissances mondiales.
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One of the most densely populated countries on the planet, Singapore's 5.7 million people rely on other nations for almost everything they eat.
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Melting ice is crucial to the thirsty Indus River region. But now the flow is projected to decline, posing risks for agriculture and a growing population.
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India has repeatedly stressed that the country’s agricultural sector will emerge unscathed from and even achieve growth amidst the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, but injurious fearmongering and a severe locust threat seem to suggest otherwise.
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With the development, the export of Pakistani mangoes to Iran is now set to resume.
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China’s agriculture ministry issued biosafety certificates on Tuesday for domestically grown, genetically modified (GM) corn and soybean traits, moving closer to commercialisation of GM grain production in the world’s top market.
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Global survey finds ‘extensive’ use of antibiotics in crop production.
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Food and agriculture products are expected to help Thailand maintain its export trade worldwide post-COVID-19, despite the significant logistical challenges seen in all major export modes of transportation so far.
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A recent study highlights how demand for Brazilian soy by China and Europe is stoking deforestation, thereby increasing carbon emissions, especially in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna biome and the Amazon rainforest.
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With a need to modernise its economy and a heavy reliance on agriculture, Pakistan need only look to China to see the benefits that could come from Pakistan need only look to China to see the benefits that could come from investing heavily in agriculture,
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Locust is a crop-threatening migratory pest that has entered the country through the India-Pakistan border. The control operations are in full swing to stop this menace.
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À cause de la peste porcine africaine, qui a provoqué un manque de disponibilité du porc, la consommation de viande bovine a fortement augmenté en Chine en 2019. Le pays, premier importateur mondial de viande bovine, tire toujours le marché mondial, et la crise du Covid ne semble pas, pour le moment, avoir freiné cette tendance.
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The Chinese anti-dumping tariffs on Australian barley have been widely interpreted as revenge for Australia’s call for a COVID-19 investigation. But there are other factors at play.
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Ice, snow, and rain from the mountains support the water, food, and energy needs of almost two billion people.
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With the COVID-19 pandemic contained following a strict two-month lockdown, Sri Lanka relaxed restrictions in late May 2020. But now, several farming communities are facing a second crisis in the form of hungry insects.
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The COVID-19 Impact on digital agriculture market size is estimated to grow from US$5.6bn in 2020 and is projected to reach US$6.2bn by 2021, recording a CAGR of 9. Per cent, with the Asia Pacific being the fastest-growing market in digital agriculture market during the forecast period.
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