The end of the Abe era also saw the end of agriculture reform in Japan, with much-needed regulatory reform nowhere to be seen.
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The impact of China’s liberalisation on global goods markets has been extensively documented. However, the parallel shock to global food markets has been neglected. This column shows that Chinese demand for food imports resulted in a significant increase in global cropland and higher profits for farmers exposed to this demand shock. It further highlights that this Chinese food shock served as the main impetus for global deforestation over the period. 
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Tokyo’s recent geopolitical assertiveness cements its position as a regional security and economic powerhouse.
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Sur sa barque en bois, Nyunt Win navigue entre les rangées de son potager flottant pour récolter les tomates qui font la renommée du lac Inle, un joyau de biodiversité en Birmanie.
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Ancient pathogens that have been preserved in northern Russia’s permafrost for millennia could reawaken as global temperatures rise, scientists warn, potentially putting humanity at risk of never-before-seen diseases.
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Over the last year, Vietnam has continued with a substantial program of dredging and landfill work in the Spratly Islands which began in 2021. Since AMTI last surveyed these efforts in December 2022, Vietnam has created another 330 acres of land, bringing its total during the current spate of building to 750 acres.
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Réunis au sein de l'Organisation de coopération économique, les pays d'Asie centrale misent sur un accroissement des échanges intrarégionaux, notamment via de nouvelles routes commerciales. Ils entendent profiter de leur position de carrefour entre les géants chinois et russe, le Moyen-Orient et l'Europe.
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U.S. manufacturers are increasingly sourcing agricultural produce from Vietnam for consumer products innovation.
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Residents along Victoria's coast are fighting back against coastal erosion with innovative and environmentally friendly solutions.
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Le Laos, ce pays asiatique, avec qui la Tunisie n’a quasiment aucune relation, nous ressemble beaucoup. Nous avons les mêmes maux budgétaires
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Par imitation, la Chine a su rattraper son retard technologique à une vitesse vertigineuse ; son modèle économique l’empêche néanmoins encore d’émerger comme un leader en matière d’innovation.
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Selon un rapport du groupe de conseil Wood Mackenzie, la Chine va bientôt contrôler 80 % de la production mondiale d'énergie solaire. Une domination qui ne cesse de se renforce
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Pendant trois décennies, la troisième puissance économique mondiale a traversé une sombre ère déflationniste, marquée par une baisse durable
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Editor's note: Food security makes headlines. With less than 9 percent of the world's arable land, China feeds 22 percent of the world's population. How does China do this? Loess Plateau, this once barren land, is becoming fertile farmland.
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VIETNAM : La relation entre diversification des cultures et performances économiques et agronomiques
Un article publié dans Ecological Economics en septembre 2023 s’intéresse à la relation entre la diversification des cultures et les performances agronomiques et économiques, dans trois provinces du centre du Vietnam
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India is on the rise after hosting high-profile events and racking up a string of economic, political and diplomatic victories.
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Tournée vers la production militaire pour alimenter la guerre en Ukraine, l'économie russe se vide de ses travailleurs et travailleuses.
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This is the time of an inflection point in history as Japan is finding itself amid the most complex and severe security environment
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Les États-Unis ont annoncé, mercredi, un investissement de 553 millions de dollars pour agrandir le port de Colombo au Sri Lanka.
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Spooked by volatile foodgrain prices ahead of a general election next year, India’s government has banned or taxed rice and wheat exports.
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New Zealand’s Fonterra Co-Operative Group want its nearly 8,500 farms to reduce emissions by 30% by 2030, the world’s largest dairy exporter said on Thursday.
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Tuvalu - a series of low-lying atolls - is one of the countries most at risk from climate change.
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Latin America holds the largest reserves of some important minerals for the energy transition, and Beijing aims to ensure a steady supply of resources.
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Russia’s Sakhalin region has become the first in the country to set carbon quotas, the latest step in its goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2025. In light of President Vladimir Putin's 2021 announcement of Russia’s aim to reach climate neutrality by 2060, Sakhalin has emerged as a testing ground for mechanisms that could pave the way for a carbon-neutral economy — first locally and eventually nationwide. “The quotas mark another step in establishing a carbon regulation framework in our country, albeit currently limited to one region,” Milena Milich, the special representative of the Sakhalin region governor on climate and sustainable development, told The Moscow Times.
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Competition for rare-earth mineral wealth on the seafloor could lead to further tensions and even conflict.
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