Word: lands
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...what needs to be done on the ground, issues like a freeze on settlements, the wall, and other issues that make Palestinian life easier. How reasonable is it to assume that you can have negotiations for removing the occupation and at the same time the Israelis are acquiring more land and building more settlements? Here is an obvious area where an intermediary has to step in and say, "No, this...
...Court judges who were about to pronounce his recent re-election as President unconstitutional. (On Nov. 19, a newly reconstituted Supreme Court comprising Musharraf loyalists decreed his re-election lawful.) While the government concentrates on putting out opposition rallies in the capital Islamabad, extremist wildfires are erupting across the land. Since the imposition of emergency rule, the violence has actually gotten worse: sectarian strife on the Afghan border has claimed more than 100 lives, and at least four police and eight frontier-corps soldiers have been beheaded in Swat. "Musharraf's emergency was just a pretext," says Shah Jehan, director...
...check" for the CAP, the policy review suggests revamping the Union's single biggest policy domain to better address modern challenges like climate change, the boom in biofuels, water management and protecting biodiversity. The Commission floats once heretical ideas such as phasing out milk quotas, scrapping rules on keeping land fallow and guaranteeing minimum cereal prices...
...proposals target not only the biggest, but also the smallest: the amount of land a farmer has to own to be eligible for aid would rise. At the moment that stands at 0.3 hectares, less than the size of a football field, and the Commission says the administrative cost of dealing with such postage-stamp holdings is often more than the subsidy itself...
...Other proposals include scrapping the practice of "set-asides" - whereby farmers have to leave 10% of their land idle at any given time - and ending the practice of buying surplus production of key commodities like cereals at a guaranteed price...