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...Stoddard, head of USAID's Alternative Development and Agriculture program in Afghanistan, is to restore "some of the old trade routes that were broken." Since the Taliban regime fell six years ago, USAID has helped plant more than a million pomegranate trees, Stoddard claims, and this year Afghan farmers harvested between 33,000 and 44,000 tons (30,000 and 40,000 metric tons) of the fruit, of which some 1,102 tons (1,000 metric tons) were flown or trucked out. Most of it went to India, Dubai and Singapore, but tiny quantities found their way to London...
...both culinary and environmental benefits of eating local, since produce shipped from far away is usually picked before it’s ripe and requires the use of fossil fuels for transport.Eating freshly picked produce brings nutritional benefits as well. Vitamin C and other antioxidants break down quickly after harvest, according to Lilian W.Y. Cheung, lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health.Cheung said that the storage methods involved in shipping over long distances can decrease vitamin C content in green peas by 15 percent and by 77 percent for green beans.HUDS made buying local products a priority five years...
...days grow short. A cold wind stirs the fallen leaves, and some mornings the vineyards are daubed with frost. Yet all across France, life has begun anew: the 2007 harvest is in. And what a harvest it has been. At least 727 new novels, up from 683 for last autumn's literary rentrée. Hundreds of new music albums and dozens of new films. Blockbuster art exhibitions at all the big museums. Fresh programs of concerts, operas and plays in the elegant halls and salles that grace French cities. Autumn means many things in many countries, but in France...
...borrowing. And when the more conventional minds of the French cultural establishment - along with their self-occupied counterparts abroad - stop fretting about decline and start applauding the ferment on the fringes, France will reclaim its reputation as a cultural power, a land where every new season brings a harvest of genius...
...estates. "That's how I'm able to demand ridiculous prices for my teas." Darjeeling tea, for instance, can be sold for up to 10 times the typical $3.54 per lb. ($1.61 per kg) for other Indian teas, and Ambootia's Brumes d'Himalaya, a "first flush," or spring-harvest, tea, sold at a high-end boutique in Paris two years...