China maintains quarantine on Philippines fruit

Source: China Daily

BEIJING -- China's quality watchdog said Friday that it will maintain a quarantine on fruit imports from the Philippines. The move is aimed at preventing the introduction of harmful beings to China and safeguarding the nation's ecological secu ...
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Sahel Region: Sharp price hikes cause alarm

Source: Mike Hitchen Online

Photo: Jaspreet Kindra/IRIN. Millet prices suffered further hikes (file photo) Source: IRIN DAKAR/OUAGADOUGOU, 25 May 2012 (IRIN) - Unexpectedly sharp price rises in April for local cereals like millet, ...
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Amnesty for Amazon Deforestation Remains After Rousseff Veto

Source: Bloomberg.com

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff vetoed sections of a forestry bill under pressure from environmentalists who say it forgives farmers for clearing land illegally and could fuel more destruction in the Amazon. The low ...
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Africa: Data Portal Aims to Help Unlock Food Production Bottlenecks

Source: AllAfrica.com

Rome — A new online data portal developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) aims to help unlock the planet's po ...
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Africa: FAO Launches the West African Food Composition Table

Source: AllAfrica.com

Publication details the composition of 472 foods from the Western Africa region. The composition of one's diet is fundamental to good nutrition and health. And knowing what we eat is essential to dietetics and foo ...
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Food Crisis Engulfs Burkina Faso

Source: News Blaze

On her two-day visit to country, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos met with Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore and other Government officials, with whom she discus ...
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Africa: Experts, Stakeholders Meet to Brainstorm On Groundwater Challenges

Source: AllAfrica.com

Some 2.5 billion people worldwide depend solely on groundwater resources to satisfy their daily needs for water and hundreds of millions of farmers rely on groundwater to sustain their livelihoods. Yet most if not all aquifers are no ...
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Phytosanitary security discussed in Tashkent

Source: Uz Report

Tashkent hosted an international seminar on "Application of international and regional standards for phytosanitary security of international trade of seeds and seedlings". The event was organized by the European and Mediterranean Organ ...
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Fukushima’s Estimated Radiation Leak Doubles Versus Government

Source: Bloomberg.com

Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant may have released twice as many radioactive particles than Japan’s government estimated, the utility said in a report today. The Fukushima Dai-Ichi plan ...
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