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...Krista Mahr's article on rich states renting agricultural land in developing states presents a thorny question: Can the hungry be a provider to the well-fed? Let's take the case of the Philippines, my homeland. Most Filipino farmers are poor and neglected. The Department of Agrarian Reform can't even protect their rights against greedy hacienda owners. Without sufficient safeguards, food-security agreements might only aggravate the lot of farmers and their families from Sudan to Indonesia. Remember: the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Dennard Dacumos, Manila...
...average 151 hours of television programming a month, more than ever. The rest of the world is fast catching up. With the right moves, the American businesses behind this enormously successful set of products stand to reap a veritable bonanza. I understand that change in Hollywood, that iconic land of individual wheeler-dealers, comes slow, but the pussyfooting must...
...from the current 100 million metric tons to 180 million metric tons by 2021-22 to keep pace with growing population and expanding disposable incomes. Livestock such as cows, buffalo, goats, sheep, horses and mules are indispensable to India's rural economy - whether the animals are yoked to plow land, raised for milk and manure or harnessed to pull carts to move goods and 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...
...certain people like to write, language is always social, a structure that man is forever bound up within. To read you have to enter a world of intersubjectivity, where your understanding and the novelist’s mix and meld. Even when you make your way through a literary land as fantastically removed as Middle Earth or Tlön, you’re still walking in the middle of social discourse. So, Ms. Miller, I don’t know how you can really read solitarily, but you can try if you like.— Sanders Bernstein...
...doesn't help that Somalis have a marked aversion to foreign forces. Fiercely conservative and suspicious of outsiders, the country bristled under the failed U.N. peacekeeping mission in the early 1990s and the Ethiopia occupation over the past few years. "The sea and the land are the same," says Abdinaser Biyokulule, a pirate recruiter in the pirate haven of Bossaso. "Foreign troops did not succeed on land, so they will not succeed in the sea either...