After two years of alternating between tense escalation and fleeting periods of calm, the United States and China reached a preliminary phase one trade deal in December 2019.
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More than 90 per cent of rice is produced and consumed in Asia. Prior to the green revolution in the 1960s, India was home to more than 100,000 rice varieties, encompassing a stunning diversity in taste, nutrition, pest-resistance and, crucially in this age of climate change and natural disasters, adaptability to a range of conditions. 
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L’Inde va bientôt dépasser la Chine et devenir le pays le plus peuplé au monde. Cette rapide croissance démographique risque fort de provoquer une envolée du chômage et de graves troubles sociaux.
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The goals were never realistic, but now Beijing has good reason to back away from its purchase commitments to Washington.
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Japanese companies are bracing for a slowdown in supply chains and sales.
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La coalition autour du Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a largement gagné les élections parlementaires de mai 2019 (349 sièges sur 542), offrant à son leader, Narendra Modi, un second mandat.
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Baisse des droits de douane, accès aux marchés publics, reconnaissance des indications géographiques et respect des normes environnementales et sociales sont parmi les principales dispositions de l'accord de libre-échange entre l'Union et le Vietnam, sur lequel se prononce le Parlement européen ce mercredi.
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Urban farms are not just centers of food production, but also spaces to provide care to the community, says Mr. Bjorn Low, founder of social enterprise Edible Garden City.
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Bangkok and cities in Southeast Asia are among the most vulnerable to climate impacts in the world. Victims of their own rapid development, unchecked industrialization urbanization on rice-producing societies.
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There has been much fanfare over the EU’s new Green Deal, a three-decade plan to make the EU climate neutral by 2050. Lauded as “revolutionary”, “visionary” and a “game-changer”, it has been applauded across the globe. Understandably so: the stated goals are nothing short of commendable.
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A state-wise analysis of land degradation by soil erosion, mining, urbanisation and many other practices
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Subterranean vegetable farms are cropping up at subway stations in Seoul in a collaboration between Seoul Metro and an agricultural startup.
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The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has issued a warning about twin invasion of desert locusts coming to India starting in May, but an official said that the country is prepared to meet the challenge.
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China and the world have been paying close attention to the novel coronavirus outbreak in the past two weeks which, according to China’s National Health Commission has infected 20,471 in China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) with an additional 150 people outside of China
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National efforts to strengthen food security have an impact far beyond any single country’s borders.
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Solving Thailand's deteriorating soil -- the lifeblood of agriculture -- doesn't just require commitment from policymakers and innovative tools, but also collaboration from farmers themselves.
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Banishing Mao Following the madness of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, China’s new Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping—the most important person of the late 20th century who most Westerners know absolutely nothing about—heroically managed, against the odds, to stabilise Communist Party rule, pulling the country back from the precipice of anarchy.
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Many studies, including the EAT-Lancet Commission report, have argued that changing diets—in particular, shifting away from beef in favor of white meat and vegetables—can substantially reduce household carbon footprints (CFs).
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Le petit monde du lin - cultivé à 85 % en Europe de l'Ouest - organisait lundi à Paris un forum mondial. L'occasion d'annoncer la mise au point d'une norme ISO et de se fixer l'objectif d'atteindre 1 % du textile mondial dans dix ans, contre 0,4 % aujourd'hui.
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Bahrain is ramping up efforts to improve food security in the country after it dropped from 41st to 50th in the Global Food Security Index (GFSI) published by The Economist Intelligence Unit.
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For many farmers in rural Myanmar, Facebook embodies the internet. With scarce availability of WiFi, they often reserve their mobile data usage for the social network
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Experts have called for a significant overhaul of agricultural data-gathering methods to ensure that the targets specified in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are accurately reported in Asia and the Pacific region, including Indonesia.
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Plus d’un mois après les méga-feux qui ont ravagé le pays, les fermiers de la région d’East Gippsland, dans le sud-est, s’estiment heureux d’avoir eu la vie sauve. Mais ils ont souvent tout perdu et s’interrogent sur leur avenir.
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THC Global is unique thanks to its world-class cannabis production facilities.
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Many Chinese companies are going into large-scale agriculture farming in Africa with mixed results. In Uganda, with the introduction of Chinese hybrid rice, the country is seeing improved food security.
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