Economic policies have often been criticised for being gender insensitive. Although trade can be a catalyst for gender equality, the effects of trade liberalisation and economic globalisation on women, in particular, so far have been mixed. TKN and its partners have undertaken a research project that attempts to provide better understanding on trade-gender nexus in [...]
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What is Sustainable Agriculture?
Agriculture has changed dramatically, especially since the end of World War II. Food and fiber productivity soared due to new technologies, mechanization, increased chemical use, specialization and government policies that favored maximizing production. These changes allowed fewer farmers with reduced labor demands to produce the majority of the food and fiber in the U.S.
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FAO – Production & Markets
PRODUCTION AND MARKETS
Social StandardsNational agricultural census data and official import statistics normally do not distinguish between certified and non-certified land and products. Therefore, the figures presented in this chapter are estimates, based on multiple information sources.
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London Summit 2009
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Economics and Growth
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Euro area needs more integrated financial market
supervision, says OECD’s Gurría
14/01/2009 – OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría has called for a more centralised and integrated supervision of Euro area banks and financial markets to help prevent a recurrence of the financial turmoil which triggered the current recession.
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Agriculture & Rural Development
Welcome to the agriculture and rural development website
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Oil Tabloid
Let’s try this. Will this be a real genuine information?
It informs about oil topics all over the world.
Apart from the fact that we deem oil as a quite old energy resource
we hope something’s going on for alternative energy supplies.
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Hungry People 963 million
Number of hungry people rises to 963 million09-12-2008
High food prices to blame – economic crisis could compound woes
9 December 2008, Rome – Another 40 million people have been pushed into hunger this year primarily due to higher food prices, according to preliminary estimates published by FAO today. This brings the overall number of undernourished people [...]
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Pesticides and Health
Pesticides are chemical poisons, designed to kill plants and animals such as insects (insecticides), weeds (herbicides), rodents (rodenticides), and mold or fungus (fungicides). They include active ingredients (those intended to kill the target) and inert ingredients, which are often not “inert” at all.
Pesticides can’t be innocuous for human health.
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Local Food Consumption, NRHA
Rural and urban residents alike are increasingly becoming attuned to the way food tastes, despite — or perhaps because of — the abundance of highly processed matter that typically adorns our plate and lines our stomachs meal after meal.
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