Steeped in a New Tradition
Los Angeles Times via Yahoo! News Fri, 21 Oct 2005 2:30 AM PDT
COAMILPA, Mexico — Only 3 years old, Leon Gustavo Davila Hinojosa is still learning to speak Spanish. But the precocious youngster already knows a bit of Japanese: "Maruchan." |
Farmers' Poverty: a Threat to Food Security
AllAfrica.com Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:33 AM PDT
The Minister of Information, at the opening ceremony of the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Co-operation regional workshop with local and national partners in Accra, wondered why most of our rural farmers fall within the poverty bracket. |
Monocropping is not desirable
Financial Express Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:03 AM PDT
TRADITIONAL agriculture -- centering mainly on the production of foodgrains -- has served a purpose, no doubt, in feeding the growing population of Bangladesh. But this singular emphasis on foodgrain production is also costing the country dear in different ways. |
Steeped in a New Tradition
Los Angeles Times Fri, 21 Oct 2005 0:34 AM PDT
Instant ramen noodles are supplanting beans and rice for many in Mexico. Defenders of the nation's cuisine and dietitians are alarmed. |
Commissioners create preservation board
Observer-Reporter Fri, 21 Oct 2005 6:31 AM PDT
WAYNESBURG – A new, seven-member board will act as the voice of farmers in planning and development decisions in the area after county commissioners created a Farmland Preservation Board at their meeting Thursday. |
City residents buying farmland some even to farm
AG Weekly Fri, 21 Oct 2005 2:08 AM PDT
Pushing wheelbarrows full of home-equity or low-interest mortgages, more people all across America are heading for the countryside -- to raise animals, to experience life in the rough, sometimes even to grow a crop or two. |
Japan Panel On U.S. Beef To Meet Monday; May Approve Safety
CattleNetwork.com Fri, 21 Oct 2005 5:34 AM PDT
TOKYO (Dow Jones)--A Japanese government panel studying the U.S. beef import ban issue will hold a meeting on Monday in which it may finalize a report saying the risk of U.S. beef imports bringing mad-cow disease into the country is extremely low. |
Green choice
Bangkok Post Thu, 20 Oct 2005 6:48 PM PDT
Not so long ago, our mums went to fresh markets to buy their lettuce and cucumbers. Now people go to supermarkets and what they want is not your ordinary lettuce grown at some who-knows-where garden. They demand rocket lettuce, continental cucumbers, even microgreens. |
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