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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...
Most undergraduate theses languish on the shelves of the Harvard Archives, but a thesis by Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan ’02 is the seed of a novel that will soon be headed to a bookstore near...
Most undergraduate theses languish on the shelves of the Harvard Archives, but a thesis by Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan ’02 is the seed of a novel that will soon be headed to a bookstore near...
...afford not to. "The first millions in seed capital came from myself and the other founders," Barton says. "We're in a position to be really patient. Nobody's come and made us a hard offer because they know I'm not interested in selling and I don't need the money." He does takes his work home, though. With guidance from Zillow, he is selling his house; it's yours for $2.9 million...
...power. We can't expect to be as lucky with the denizens of the gulf region. And we certainly wouldn't make our luck by staying the course and hiding behind Bush's fears of Middle East dominoes. We need him to unstrap America's still muscular diplomacy to seed the antiterrorist soil within Iraq, to structure a regional peace among states that cringe from regional war, to blunt the disasters of chaos and defeat--and perhaps even to snatch successes beforehand...