Bank balances apart, Colombia's mobsters have huge holdings of urban property, and of good farming land.
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If you don't allow marginal land to be built on, they're going to build on the good farming land.
Some Dutch and British farmers have begun renting land from Poles in the belief that they can make good money from farming in a lower-cost country.
The Alliance for Food and Farming says this is good science and there is no cause for alarm, no matter the number of pesticide residues found.
We argued that its genetically engineered crops that resist pests and weedkiller make farming easier and have been good for the world.
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Farming ought to be especially good for nutrition.
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Second, the Brazilian way of farming is more likely to do good in the poorest countries of Africa and Asia.
Insect-resistant corn containing the BT toxin, derived from a bacterium and used in organic farming, does kill butterflies and other good insects but far less than 1% of them.
With a few tweaks to labour and farming policies, it could be worth a good deal more.
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He reviews his farming childhood, his happy marriage to a good woman called Rachel and his wartime service in Italy as a member of the 10th Mountain Brigade, as he encounters a series of lovers, drifters, loners, psychotic hunters and sick illegal immigrants all of whom have something to teach him.
Will the new department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs force unrealistic ideas on the farming community or will they use this crisis for good and help with the restructuring that this industry desperately needs all the way up the food chain?
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