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...Underpinning the changing diets in emerging markets is a redefined agricultural landscape. Farmers are increasingly taking advantage of improved seed and plant varieties, as well as fertilizers and pesticides. In the 25 years prior to 2001, the total worldwide investment in agriculture?including machinery, land improvements and livestock?increased from $1.5 trillion to more than $2.1 trillion, according to the United Nations. Different types of foods are being grown, as basic crops have given way to speciality produce. Instead of growing sweet corn for sale by the ear in the marketplace, for example, farmers are harvesting and selling white corn...
...line between a sustainable farm and an unsustainable one? It's a judgment that has been made on entire industries in the past, when governments removed or cut the tariffs that protected the manufacturing sector. Why prop up farmers who are bad managers or whose poor practices on unproductive land are hurting the environment? The signals drought policy sends to good farmers are certainly mixed. And how come a 50-year-old waterside worker or factory machinist is obliged to re-train or relocate to an area where there are jobs, while the yeoman farmer is a protected species...
...rural adviser from a major bank says that when a farmer has the bad luck to be stuck with marginal land, staying on it can often be a matter of choice, even a "lifestyle decision." Government handouts only "prolong the day of having to make a tough call," he says. "It's like if I set up a small shop on the outskirts of town and then Coles comes along. Would the government protect me?" Observers foresee a day of reckoning brought about by agricultural consolidation. Foreign investors, such as major hedge funds, are picking up prime farm land...
Tears welled up in my�eyes before�I could finish reading about Perez. Where do we get such dedicated young people to serve us without reservation? A life so special should not have ended in a far-off land away from family and friends. From the beginning of this tragic war, I have maintained that we had no right to be in Iraq. There is nothing there to warrant the sacrifice of our finest young people. Not oil, not the Iraqis and not the unlikely hope of spreading democracy. It is time to bring our finest home...
...Hoff said. “Then the goal was just kind of a big blow to them, and they kind of went flat until the second half.” Setting up Hoff for a one-touch shot, freshman Kwaku Nyamekye launched the ball diagonally from midfield to land directly in front of the goal. After shaking off his defender, Hoff finished the cross and chipped it over the head of Tiger goalkeeper Joe Walters to score. Although a scoreless half would not have disheartened the Crimson, a halftime lead was far better for Harvard, as Princeton?...