Food Fight: Proposed Legislation Threatens Small Farmers, Citizen Consumers
Region: United States
www.backupamerica.org “Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people” - Henry Kissinger In the wake of the recent health "threats" due to the peanut/salmonella scare, Mexi... more
Views: 1950Backward agriculture is an important reason for the industrial crisis in the state
Region: IndiaIn the field of agriculture, productivity of food grains is low. Triple cropping has not yet become the rule, the average crop being only 1.2 per cent. The index of power production is relatively and the rate of rura... more
Views: 695Brazil adopted a new forestry code that removes barriers to deforestation
Region: United StatesProtected forest areas on private land in the Amazon region, equivalent to 80%, was reduced to 50%. It proposes a broad amnesty for landowners who, in recent decades, violated existing laws. Rousseff Gree... more
Views: 1995Pergam Finance sees agricultural investments on the rise
Region: UruguayOlivier Combastet’s Pergam Finance provides investors with innovative product offerings within the profitable South American agricultural sector As the global population continues to rise and the dem... more
Views: 1203California gets $14 billion, but what about Georgia?
Region: United StatesATLANTA - "Marijuana could become an ideal agricultural export for Georgia," I inform the concierge. She smiles warmly and says that it is not her decision. I am in an upscale hotel in Atlanta, operating in a broad space t... more
Views: 2051Decriminalizing Drugs in the U.S. May Help Mexican National Security
Region: United StatesIn a recent Wall Street Journal OpEd by the former presidents of Mexico, Brazil, and Columbia, “The War On Drugs Is A Failure,” the core conclusion – as also expressed by the Latin American Commissio... more
Views: 1751Barley in North Dakota; Highest Yield Ever
Region: United StatesBISMARCK, N.D. (GroundReport) – According to statistics, North Dakota barley production jumped in 2008, thanks in large part to the perfect weather during the growing season in the east. "It was cool all su... more
Views: 1035India rejected the proposals on opening global market for agriculture
Region: India
Determine to protect interest of its farmers and nascent industries, India will press for changes in the latest WTO proposal on agriculture and industrial goods as hard negotiations begin on Monday in Geneva on the... more
Views: 1000Nepal puts ban on grain exports
Region: NepalNEPAL - The Nepalese government have followed many other governments around the world in putting a ban on the export of grains from the country, a government official said Thursday. Rice prices have risen 35% in r... more
Views: 1132Another Record Opium Harvest Likely
Region: Afghanistan
Farmers say they are growing more poppy this year, despite government claims to the contrary. Mohammad Hasan Hamkar, for IWPR in Helmand In Helmand’s Marji district, farmers are busy sowing their annual poppy cro... more
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