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/ 1 December 2011
A "green revolution" leading to much higher crop yields is needed to support the rapidly growing populations of African countries, a think-tank warns.
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/ 4 February 2011
Global food prices tracked by a UN agency hit their highest level on record in January, a problem set to worsen after a massive snowstorm in the US.
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/ 10 November 2009
Giuseppe Oglio’s farm near Milan looks like it’s suffering from neglect. Weeds run rampant amid the rice fields and clover grows unchecked.
Farm ministers flook likely to focus on how to raise world food production, rather than take action to curb commodity speculation.
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/ 4 September 2007
Like many farmers, Martin Busin works from dawn till nightfall, but he still needs the help of his cafe-au-lait cow, Miss, to bring in tourists to keep afloat his smallholding in Italy’s mountainous Alto Adige region. With little farming land and over a million high-cost small farms, Italy started opening farms to tourists in the mid-1960s.