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This page contains links to recent information on important issues relating to
poverty alleviation, food security, climate change and sustainable agriculture.
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Sustainable Agriculture |
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Philippine precision farming gets a mobile upgrade
(21 July 2010) |
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Ecological farming practices for drought regions (19
July 2010) |
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Biotech and breeding - glimpses of the agricultural future
(9 July 2010) |
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Commodity exchanges good, but needs regulation (2
July 2010) |
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Lack of vision for small farmers (18 June 2010) |
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Farmers Push Comeback of ‘Cereal of the Poor’ (18
June 2010) |
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Farmers stand to gain from bioenergy development in Thailand
(15 June 2010) |
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DA, IRRI, Globe Telecom to give rice farmers timely information
(8 June 2010) |
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Agriculture sector grows 2% (2 June 2010) |
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FAO urges early action on climate change responses: Agriculture can be
part of solutions (1 June 2010) |
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Japan’s precision agriculture increases production
(25 May 2010) |
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High agriculture imports drag on economy (13 May
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Afghanistan is ESCAP’s member
Farmers’ dilemma - wheat, fruit or saffron? (20 May
2010) |
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Using digital data collection methods for improved seeds study
(10 May 2010) |
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Rice Production to Rise to Record This Year, FAO Says
(9 May 2010) |
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Vietnam spends billions dollar to import farm produce
(5 May 2010) |
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Poor want biomass, not biodiversity, finds study (30
April 2010) |
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Agricultural biodiversity research plan dropped (27
April 2010) |
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New rural radio services launched in Bangladesh (25
April 2010) |
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Stealing a March (April 2010) |
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DA seeks to minimize post-harvest losses (14 April
2010) |
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Farmers on Fringe of International Agriculture Policy?
(14 April 2010) |
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Efforts to be made on quality tracing of state farm products
(9 April 2010) |
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Research alone won't drive agricultural development
(9 April 2010) |
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Vietnam to share agricultural expertise with Chad (7
April 2010) |
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Rural IT project progresses (6 April 2010) |
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Impact of climate change on Indian agriculture (6
April 2010) |
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Land reform for productivity (5 April 2010) |
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Will ASEAN-China FTA boost Indonesia's agricultural export?
(5 April 2010) |
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Greater Mekong Sub region Agriculture Needs Innovative Thinking
(30 March 2010) |
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Global agricultural conference hears calls for greater research and
investment (29 March 2010) |
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Invest in water and seeds to scale up agricultural production: urges FAO
Bangladesh (29 March 2010) |
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Govt to build reservoirs in flood-prone areas (29
March 2010) |
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Agriculture expansion plan under fire (26 March 2010) |
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Report finds radical change needed for global agriculture
(25 March 2010) |
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Landcare can unite us around food, climate change and environment
(23 March 2010) |
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No country for landed women (8 March 2010) |
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Farmers in the dock in water-deficient India (8 March
2010) |
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RI builds warning system for food safety (3 March
2010) |
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China allocates 28.6 bln yuan to support farmers (2
March 2010) |
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Indonesia calls on developed states to invest in agriculture
(1 March 2010) |
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Predicted second wave of biotech growth and development begins
(23 February 2010) |
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Farmers have worse problems than cheap imports (23
February 2010) |
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China's soil deterioration may become growing food crisis, adviser
claims (23 February 2010) |
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Desertification driving mass migrations (22 February
2010) |
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Solomons govt hopes agriculture potential will lure rural youth home
(22 February 2010) |
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Only 9.21pc women own farm land in country: FAO (21
February 2010) |
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Philippines triples its rice yield in last 50 years
(20 February 2010) |
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Sustainability the new farm agenda, foreign workers needed
(18 February 2010) |
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Taxing agriculture (14 February 2010) |
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Australia pledges aid for Pacific farmers (12
Febraury 2010) |
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Bangladesh streamlines agriculture subsidy (11
February 2010) |
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$10 million to boost
agribusiness in the Pacific (10 February 2010) |
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Vietnam rice exports could go against the grain (9
February 2010) |
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Financial crisis should spur ‘clean’ growth in developing nations – UN
(8 February 2010) |
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Support to affordable land administration (5 February
2010) |
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Seed paddy for over 14,600 families (4 February 2010) |
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Government to raise support for rural areas (1
February 2010) |
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China's clever water use boosts food yields (29
January 2010) |
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Crop biofortification, key to achieving Millennium Development Goals
(27 January 2010) |
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‘Agriculture makes good business sense’: IFAD President urges Davos
leaders to invest in developing countries (26 January
2010) |
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Oz-based fund eyes $600m in agro-tech (21 January
2010) |
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Pesticide poisoning takes its toll (18 January 2010) |
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Indonesian government gives green thumb-up to plant Papua ‘food estate’
(17 January 2010) |
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Rice export boom an accident, analysts warn (17
January 2010) |
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Focusing on the smaller farms (12 January 2010) |
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Irrigation project key to rice output (8 January
2010) |
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Creeping deserts and crouching hunger (5 January
2010) |
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Indian farmers call for local crop focus (4 January
2010) |
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Bio-diversity plan to curb impact of climate change
(4 January 2010) |
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