Word: globalization
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...Although Swiss brands may not take the biggest bite out of the global chocolate market - that honor goes to the U.S. company Mars-Wrigley and Britain's Cadbury - they are widely considered among the best and most competitive in the world. "Switzerland's image sells well abroad, and nothing says 'Switzerland' more than chocolate," says Stephane Garelli, director of the World Competitiveness Center at the Institute of Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, predicting that this comfort food will continue to sweeten the sour economy for months to come...
...Chocolate is one of the more recession-resilient food sectors," says Dean Best, executive director of Just-Food, a U.K.-based news and information website for the global food industry. "With consumers eating out less and eating at home more, there is evidence that they are still allowing themselves the occasional indulgence - and chocolate is a relatively inexpensive indulgence...
...burping, belching and excreting copious amounts of methane - a greenhouse gas that traps 20 times more heat than carbon dioxide - India's livestock of roughly 485 million (including sheep and goats) contributes more to global warming than the vehicles the animals obstruct. With new research suggesting that methane emission by Indian livestock is higher than previously estimated, scientists are furiously working at designing diets to help bovines and other ruminants eat better, stay more energetic and secrete smaller amounts of the offensive gas. (See pictures of India's largest ruminant: the Asian elephant...
...people. The Ministry of Agriculture estimates that livestock contribute 5.3% to total GDP, up from 4.8% during 1980-81. But, says K.K. Singhal, head of dairy cattle nutrition at the National Dairy Research Institute in Karnal in northern India, "while livestock plays a crucial role in the economy, global warming is becoming a huge worry. We're trying to find indigenous solutions, because our realities are very different from the West." (See 10 things you should know about the world's cheapest car, India's Nano...
...afford it. What we have done instead is develop cheaper technologies and products." One example is urea-molasses-mineral blocks that are cheap, reduce methane emission by 20%, and also provide more nutrition, so they're easier to sell to illiterate farmers who don't know a thing about global warming but want higher milk yields...