Les PME et l'agriculture chinoises risquent de devenir les principales victimes économiques de l'épidémie de Covid-19.
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Locust infestations are causing massive damage to farm crops in East Africa, India and Pakistan, prompting the United Nations to warn of a "humanitarian crisis" resulting from the food shortage. 
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Pakistan's farmers are struggling to combat the worst locust plague in nearly three decades as insect swarms decimate entire harvests in the country's agricultural heartlands and send food prices soaring.
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Vegetable oil-based biofuels, in particular, those produced from palm oil, are increasingly used as alternatives to fossil fuels, despite rising controversy over their sustainability. This has promoted to the continuous expansion of oil palm plantations across tropical regions, particularly in Indonesia.
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Growing social divisions, stoked by the BJP-led government, have mixed dangerously with a slowing economy.
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Le café thaïlandais est beaucoup plus qu’un plaisir niche pour les connaisseurs du breuvage.
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Malaysia is heading towards a crisis in food toxicity, with, for instance, occupational poisoning and disease among farm workers averaging more than 2,500 cases per year.
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Farmers’ organisations, trade union federations, indigenous peoples, fisher groups, women’s organisations, environmental groups and progressive political parties met in Hyderabad, South India.
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Le milliardaire Jack Ma, fondateur du site d’e-commerce Alibaba, a pris sa retraite des affaires. Cet ancien professeur laisse les rênes d’un groupe de 100 000 employés, valorisé plus de 450 milliards de dollars, et déclare vouloir se consacrer à la philanthropie dans le domaine de l’éducation où sa fondation innove.
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De moindre ampleur que la guerre commerciale entre la Chine et les États-Unis, Washington et New Delhi se livrent ces derniers mois un bras de fer autour de leurs échanges de biens et services.
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Researchers are pushing for India to focus on enhancing its production of crops other than rice, the country’s traditional staple, if it wishes to effectively address its triple threats of food security, climate change effects and malnutrition.
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Thailand's Kasikornbank and Japan's Norinchukin Bank will pool their strengths in agricultural finance.
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North Queensland's position as an agricultural powerhouse has been further cemented with a 25-year plan aiming to capitalise on growth in the region.
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Taiwan has reached organic equivalency agreements with Japan and Australia in a bid to protect its local organic industry, widen export markets and smoothen organic certification processes both ways.
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La "mondialisation" de la crise du nouveau coronavirus menace celle de l'économie. Si la crise persiste, elle pourrait conduire les entreprises à repenser leurs stratégies de production, et notamment leur dépendance à l'égard de la Chine.
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La Chine a réussi l’exploit, jusqu’au milieu des années 2000, de nourrir la population la plus nombreuse de la planète sans peser sur les équilibres agricoles mondiaux. Mais depuis, sa capacité à se nourrir et, en corollaire, sa dépendance alimentaire grandissante sont devenues une faiblesse dans son ascension économique et politique, qu’elle cherche à limiter notamment grâce au projet des « nouvelles routes de la soie ».
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La Chine serait sur le point d'envoyer 100 000 canards au Pakistan pour lutter contre les essaims de criquets qui ravagent les cultures.
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Farming is the bedrock of India’s economy—43 per cent of its population are employed in agriculture. Yet, paradoxically, around 60 per cent of India’s people is likely to experience severe food shortages by 2050.
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Six in 10 Prudential Singapore staff are women. Outgoing CEO Wilf Blackburn explains how fighting gender bias, ageism and hierarchy is helping the firm achieve its main sustainability ambitions.
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On 24 Feb 2020, the president of the United States Trump paid a visit to India; approximately 10 million people cordially welcome him. His speech was very heart touching and need to be clarified two things, first why Trump used the Indo-Pacific instead of the Asia Pacific, and good words for Pakistan on the soil of adversary
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At least 100,000 ducks are expected to be sent to Pakistan as early as the second half of this year to combat a desert locust outbreak.
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The spotty records of Chinese companies on sustainability continue to undermine Beijing’s ambitions in the region.
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In the past twenty years, Asian countries have experienced massive and unprecedented urban growth, and with it a host of new challenges, as swelling urban populations have increased pressure on resources such as land, food, and water.
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Japanese exports of wagyu in 2019 hit all-time highs on the back of Asia's growing appetite for the premium beef, especially among the region
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