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On 5 August, the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fulfilled a founding ambition and repeated election promise: they ended Kashmir’s unique status in India’s federal structure by scrapping Article 370 of the Constitution. 
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Developing a medical cannabis industry is among top policy priorities for Thailand's new government, according to a document released before the formal announcement.
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La Chine mène des expérimentations à grande échelle d’électroculture visant à doper la croissance des plantes tout en réduisant drastiquement les apports en pesticides et en engrais.
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The private sectors of Asean nations are preparing organic standards to reduce production costs and improve supply chain management.
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Malaysia will file a complaint to the World Trade Organization (WTO) by November to challenge a European Union move to phase out palm oil from being used in transport fuels in the bloc.
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De graves sécheresses menacent le pays et l'absence d'infrastructures adéquates complique la situation. Mais il existe des solutions potentielles.
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Des OGM super-résistants. Des scientifiques de l'Académie chinoise des sciences agricoles ont créé une pousse de soja résistante aux grandes chaleurs
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The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has alerted Indonesia to the migration of the fall armyworm, which has caused billions in losses in Africa.
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Farmers in Bangladesh are adapting to climate change, and it’s having an impact in faraway places—including on restaurant menus.
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Modi’s China policy focussed on constructing a balancing coalition with Australia, Japan, Vietnam and the United States, the most significant military powers in the Asia-Pacific (excluding South Korea). The objective was not to build an alliance, but rather to increase India’s diplomatic leverage with China. Doing this, Modi moved away from non-alignment and an insistence on following ASEAN’s lead in Asian security.
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The market for plant-based protein is set to surge over the next decade as part of a technological revolution in agriculture, according to UBS Group AG.
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The United States and Japan are working on a trade deal involving agriculture and autos that could be agreed by President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe when they meet in New York in September.
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As China’s government pledges to help funnel more aid, development finance and private-sector capital into African agriculture, what’s motivating the flow and is it having a positive impact?
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Yan Wenliu leans on the side of his cart as he prepares to leave his sugarcane field in Southwest China, bewildered by the formidable new pest that has ambushed his crops this year.
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Villagers in Lao are reporting a nine-metre drop in water levels.
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Bali (Indonésie) (AFP) - Un cachalot retrouvé mort en Indonésie avec 6 kilos de plastique dans l'estomac, soit 115 verres et 25 sacs. Des plongeurs nageant dans une mer de déchets à Manta Point. Pour lutter contre l'invasion du plastique qui pollue ses côtes et risque de chasser les touristes, Bali a interdit l'usage des pailles et des sacs dans cette matière.
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Obesity is rising fast in Southeast Asia, putting strain on healthcare systems and government budgets, particularly in countries like Malaysia and Indonesia, according to research from Fitch Solutions Macro Research.
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Le succès de la Chine dans l'alimentation de la plus grande population du monde avec ses terres agricoles limitées offre un très bon éclairage aux pays africains dans leur démarche pour parvenir à la sécurité alimentaire, ont déclaré des participants à un atelier sur la coopération rizicole entre la Chine et l'Afrique.
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Les habitants et agriculteurs du nord et du nord-est de la Thaïlande sont actuellement confrontés à la pire vague de sécheresse de ces quarante dernières années. Dans certaines localités, les récoltes dépérissent dans les champs arides alors qu’une pénurie d’eau courante menace.
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Pour nourrir les 7,5 milliards d’habitants sur la planète d’ici à la fin de la prochaine décennie, les experts de l’Organisation pour la coopération économique et le développement (OCDE) et de l’Organisation des Nations unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) tablent sur une augmentation de 15 % de la production agricole d’ici à 2028.
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Almost half of Maldives’s population and more than 70 percent of its critical infrastructure lie within 100 meters of its shoreline This close proximity to the ocean makes the island nation a prime location to benefit from the Blue Economy, which refers to the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth and better lives.
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Common transport infrastructure can improve welfare for participating countries, but they are costly undertakings with potentially asymmetric effects on trade and income of individual countries.
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Flood waters submerge homes, roads and railway lines, cutting off whole districts.
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The subregion has not been exempt from the epidemic, and worries have been rising.
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Almost six million people are under threat from rising flood waters across South Asia, where hundreds of thousands of people have already been displaced as a result of heavy monsoon rains.
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