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...This shift in dietary preferences and agricultural trends has created investment opportunities in supermarket, food-manufacturing and logistics companies in a number of developing countries. Consider China and India, the world's two most populous nations. Food spending in China is expected to grow 6.7% annually over the next 20 years, making the country one of the world's fastest-growing food markets, according to the McKinsey Quarterly. And in India, urban shoppers are spending more on food, groceries and personal-care items than ever before; the average monthly expenditure on these purchases jumped 14% in 2005 from 2004. According...
...With this growth comes a dramatic shift in food-production methods. India, for example, is increasingly focused on modernizing its agribusiness and on encouraging farmers to grow more fruits and vegetables instead of staples like wheat and rice. Improved agricultural output in Asia and Latin America has also meant growing demand for tractors, fertilizers and speciality seeds. Drip-irrigation equipment is particularly crucial to farms in China and India, which must use scarce water supplies more efficiently. Post-harvest, the processing and packaging sectors present opportunities in areas such as food-processing machinery, freezer and cold-storage facilities, and packaging...
...team-oriented approach. He packed his cabinet with close associates, expanded the number of prime-ministerial advisers from two to five and began forming a Japanese equivalent of the U.S. National Security Council, reporting directly to the Prime Minister. The creation of Team Abe is an attempt to shift political power away from Kasumigaseki, where Japan's formidable bureaucrats toil. "There's always been a struggle between the LDP and the ministries," says Tomoaki Iwai, a professor of political science at Nihon University. "Abe came through with a White House-style system of strong leadership that Koizumi couldn't quite...
Pictures of drought-stricken land, higher temperatures, water restrictions and dying suburban gardens have become part of the voter's psyche. Even a global-warming skeptic like Howard can read the shift in the electorate's fears; he and his intimates have adjusted their thinking and public words. With an election expected next year, Howard's team are devising an environmental platform based on water policy, rural land care and alternative energy sources. Howard has traveled widely in the bush. Farmers are one of his touchstones, and more measures to help them are expected this week. But when Howard talks...
...promising as each of these actions may be, they remain only fragmentary, half-steps in the face of what Wootan calls Congress' "shameful" refusal to enact strong, uniform standards. What is needed is nothing short of a dietary paradigm shift...