Farmers in Sindh, Pakistan are concerned the pests will impact textile industry.
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China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) could speed up economic development and reduce poverty for dozens of developing countries—but it must be accompanied by deep policy reforms that increase transparency, improve debt sustainability, and mitigate environmental, social, and corruption risks, a new World Bank Group study on the BRI transportation corridors has found. 
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Une épidémie de peste porcine africaine sévit depuis l’année dernière. Celle-ci a débuté en Chine avant de s’étendre à d’autres pays d’Asie… et gagne désormais l’Europe.
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Situé à Quaëdypre, près de Bergues (Nord), Jean Decock va débourser 12 M€ pour bâtir un nouveau site de production, sur lequel travailleront à terme une grosse vingtaine de salariés.
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Monsoon rains have covered most parts of cane, cotton, and soybean fields in western India and some parts of rice-sowing areas in central and northern India, the country's weather office said on Tuesday. After a limp start, the rains have covered nearly half of the country, a weather department official told Reuters on Monday.
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Après plusieurs ajournements, l’Inde a enfin décidé de répondre aux États-Unis, en augmentant ses tarifs douaniers jusqu’à 70 % sur 28 produits américains, dont les pommes, les amandes et les noix.
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Japan wants to expand its farm, fishery and forestry exports and will set up a new "one-stop shop" to handle the job.
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Compared to pre-2008 crisis levels, world economic growth has already plummeted by half and is at risk of a long-term, hard-to-reverse stagnation. Returning to global integration and multilateral reconciliation could dramatically change the scenario.
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The haze that hit Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia in 2015 has since largely been avoided – but this has much to do with luck, and only governments can make the fundamental changes needed, writes Chandran Nair.
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It is driving up the price of pork, and the inflation rate
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The fifth meeting of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog, the Indian Government’s policy think tank, was held in New Delhi this week. The meeting sought to address, among other topics, the ongoing drought in several Indian states.
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Without the baggage of a traditional agricultural economy, it’s easier to reinvent things.
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If we’re going to feed the planet sustainably by the middle of the century, the food has to come in much larger volumes from Asia and Africa, told EURACTIV.com in an interview Simon Winter, head of Syngenta Foundation.
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SINGAPORE: On Tuesday (Jun 25), the Singapore Food Agency put up a post on social media to raise awareness about African swine fever (ASF),
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Abaoutou Bonaventure Ulrich, a member of the Central African Republic's (CAR) presidential guard, proudly displays a badge with the name of a Chinese policeman inscribed on it
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Retour sur terre pour le nationaliste hindou Narendra Modi. Après une campagne électorale tout feu, tout flamme, suivie d’une victoire historique aux législatives, fin mai, le premier ministre indien était sur un petit nuage. Mais à l’orée de son second mandat, il affronte une sécheresse des plus sévères, obligeant son gouvernement à se retrousser les manches plus vite que prévu.
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Mercredi 19 juin, un consortium de chercheurs en université venus du monde entier a passé la matinée à la ferme expérimentale d’Étoile-sur-Rhône.
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Par la délocalisation et l’exportation indirecte des produits chinois vers les États-Unis, une nouvelle route est en train de se dessiner pour répondre au conflit commercial sino-américain. La structure de l’économie mondiale est en pleine réorganisation, selon ce journal économique nippon.
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A wider range of crop varieties would decrease fertiliser and water use, reduce soil pollution and help insects.
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Delayed monsoon rains highlight fragility of the water supply in the deeply agrarian South Asian country.
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L'épizootie de peste porcine africaine qui ravage certains pays d'Asie ne devrait pas être maîtrisée avant plusieurs années.
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Highlighting the ongoing decline of biodiversity and resilience in natural forests in the Asia-Pacific region, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in its newest comprehensive report regarding the future of forest in Asia-Pacific region has asked country members to take firm measures to reverse this trend.
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A project to protect producers from food fraud by verifying and promoting the provenance of the region's beef exports to China turned out to be a source of creative work in the region as well.
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African Swine Fever (ASF) has broken out in China, in what has been described as one of the biggest animal disease outbreaks ever seen.
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Dans le nord du pays, des milliers de villages ont été abandonnés par leurs occupants qui souffraient du manque d'eau. Depuis le début du mois de juin, le pays fait face à une vague de chaleur particulièrement intense, le mercure ayant dépassé les 50°C dans certaines zones.
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