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In 2019, the Japanese government introduced the Work Style Reform Law which sought to increase diversity in the workplace and improve working conditions. But reform has not been sufficiently discussed in one of the industries that needs it the most — agriculture. 
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A new study shows that women, as well as the youth, have influence in their respective communities despite men being traditionally seen as leaders.
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Although 2020 was the fourth warmest year on record in northern Asia, the cold condition in April 2020 caused severe damage to the agricultural and marine ecosystems in northeastern Asia. Previous studies have indicated that the dipole atmospheric circulation over Siberia and the East Sea (Japan Sea) produced this cold environment with strong northwesterly wind. However, the potential causes of the dipole circulation over northeastern Asia remain unclear. In this study, we found that the East Atlantic/Western Russia (EAWR) pattern and blocking combined to produce the atmospheric structure.
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Global warming and climate breakdown are going to be disruptive to say the least. Humanity’s insistence on unsustainable development and rising greenhouse gas emissions will make the settlements of millions of people increasingly prone to extreme weather events and full-blown natural disasters.
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Local governments are desperate to balance the books with land sales.
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The “Middle Corridor”—a loosely defined trade route that spans the Central Asian steppe, the Caspian Sea, and the Caucasus mountains—has both engendered
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A dry winter, arrival of El Nino and two years without earnings make this year terrible for Indian farmers
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In 2019, China’s giant food system produced 1.9bn tonnes of CO2 equivalent – around the same as the total annual emissions of Russia.
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The country's top officials will meet at the end of February to discuss "pressing" farming issues.
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Invasive aquatic plants are choking biodiversity hotspots from Myanmar to Vietnam. Solutions are available, but they need sustained investment
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India has climate-smart solutions for Asian agriculture.
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Jiangsu, Shandong and Hebei ranked among areas most vulnerable to rising water levels and extreme weather.
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Despite the disastrous consequences of deforestation in Borneo, conservation efforts of numerous parties active on the island give us hope for the island’s irreplaceable rainforests and species.
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The South Asian neighbourhood is in flux. Sri Lanka and Pakistan are facing economic headwinds, with the former having gone through
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Recent South American free trade agreements will have implications for Australian agricultural exports.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged government officials to engineer a "fundamental transformation" in agricultural production, state media reported on Tuesday, amid fears that the country's food shortage is worsening.
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OPINION: Feeding people will become a challenge as the world's population grows, but adopting the use of AI in agriculture will help.
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One of the greatest lithium resources in the world, the 5.9 million tonne lithium reserve was found in the Reasi district by the Geological Survey of India (GSI). As lithium is used for the creation of rechargeable batteries, which are used in a variety of electronic products, including as smartphones, laptops, and electric cars.
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China has so far been able to feed its 1.4 billion people, but climate change and a dependence on imports could pose challenges.
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Rapid demographic ageing substantially affects socioeconomic development1–4 and presents considerable challenges for food security and agricultural sustainability5–8, which have so far not been well understood. Here, by using data from more than 15,000 rural households with crops but no livestock across China, we show that rural population ageing reduced farm size by 4% through transferring cropland ownership and land abandonment (approximately 4 million hectares) in 2019, taking the population age structure in 1990 as a benchmark.
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What lies ahead for Asia’s economies in post-pandemic world
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The European Union should partner with ASEAN to improve Southeast Asian food security, write Darryl Tan, Luzile Satur and Mirjam Le.
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A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought, China announced in the Global Security Initiative Concept Paper it released on Tuesday amid growing risks and challenges that the world faces today, particularly in light of the Ukraine crisis, with the aim of eliminating the root causes of international conflicts and improving global security.
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