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    United We Stand to Achieve Sustainable Development

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    Social Contract Needed to Lift Asia-Pacific Workforce Out of Poverty: UNESCAP

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    Global Food Prices Drop for Fifth Month on the Trot

    World food prices have fallen for a fifth consecutive month but are still nearly eight per cent higher than a year ago. The UN’s food...
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    Bangladesh Plans for Food Security; Set to Import Rice from India, Vietnam; Wheat from Russia

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    Farming and Fertilizers: How Ecological Practices Can Make a Difference

    “We found that ecological intensification can partly replace fertilizers to support crop yields, because both ecological intensification and fertilizers increase soil nutrients. So farmers could use ecological...
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