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    World Food Prices Rise for First Time in Seven Months: FAO

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    Agri-technology

    India’s Farmers Could Use Better Monsoon Forecasts

    While the Indian Meteorological Department has advanced monsoon forecasting systems, researchers from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago found that farmers in southern...
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    Finance and Economy

    Maldives: Tourism Slowing Down Due to Increased Demand for Guest Houses

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    Climate change

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    Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya emphasised the importance of creating a central database with inputs from states to share field level data on heatwaves, including on...
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    Empowerment

    The “Gendered constraint” Factors for Women Sarpanchs

    In the absence of any prior knowledge, it is obvious they would not be confident to take decisions and therefore, depend on their male...
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    Entrepreneurship

    Does Technology Help or Hurt Employment?

    Combing through 35,000 job categories in US census data, economists found a new way to quantify technology’s effects on job loss and creation. Peter Dizikes | MIT...
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