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  • Taiwan's most popular charitable causes are education and child welfare, leaving room for Kuan-Shu's environmental and agricultural projects.

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  • Cigarette smoking in Africa - in particular in countries like Egypt and Nigeria - is growing by a record 3.5% a year, according to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO).

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  • According to Anthony Trewavas, a vocal critic of organic food and proponent of GM, today's global-food problems demand agricultural pragmatism and flexibility, not ideology.

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  • The U.S. leads biofuel innovation likely due to the U.S. abundance of agricultural resources and a history of subsidizing corn-based ethanol.

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  • Many also voiced their hope that Mr Cartes, who is well connected with Paraguay's wealthy landowners and agricultural businesses, would create employment and draw international investment.

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  • Officials in the state Agriculture and Consumer Services Department will investigate the case with the help of the department's Division of Animal Industry, the department's Office of Agricultural Law Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies.

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  • The WTO trade ministers and other delegates had come to Seattle to draw up an agenda for a new round of global trade talks, which are scheduled to last about three years and take up issues like European farm subsidies--of huge importance to U.S. and Canadian agricultural exporters--and whether to tax sales on the Internet.

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  • The Yellow River, one of the world's longest, supplies water to more than 150 million people and 15 percent of China's agricultural land.

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  • Today, the dance is a cultural and aesthetic event, connecting townspeople to their agricultural heritage, to Japan's tradition of reliance on rice, and to a group identity transmitted across centuries through folk performance.

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  • "There are relatively big inflationary pressures this year, mainly because there are pressures on China's land, labour, agricultural products and services, " he said.

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  • Estrada pledges to focus on the country's inefficient and chronically neglected agricultural sector, which last year suffered its worst drought in 30 years.

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  • Ashanti is Ghana's gold-mining and agricultural heartland.

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  • Besides being unconstitutional, this upset aid donors and threatened Zimbabwe's agricultural export earnings.

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  • All the rice was produced at small-scale mills of the kind common in China's agricultural sector, which remains extremely localized and composed of smaller operations, which makes it difficult to regulate standards.

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  • The US and many European countries give large subsidies, billions a year, to their farmers, and there's a feeling that that distorts the act of global agricultural markets so badly that poor farmers and poor countries simply can't enter it.

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  • The state's tax system, designed for an agricultural and manufacturing economy, is now outdated and needlessly volatile.

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  • Expect little inflation in the U.S. except in commodities, both agricultural and metals.

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