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Sharma is Sticking to His Guns in Bali
India’s trade minister Anand Sharma listens during a news conference at the ninth World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Nusa Dua, on the Indonesian resort island of Bali December 5,...
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UN Warns Food Security a Risk to Asia-Pacific
Workers unload rice imported from Vietnam from a ship docked at a port in Manila on January 23, 2014. (Reuters Photo/Romeo Ranoco) Ulan Bator. The world must increase its food production by 60 percent...
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Food Security a Priority for Poorer Regions: Leaders
Indonesia is encouraging its 240 million population to diversify from their heavy rice diet as the country is vulnerable to food crises. (AFP Photo/Romeo Gacad) Addis Ababa. Leaders and experts...
View ArticleWanted: Younger Generation of Farmers to Feed Asia
Manila. An aging population of farmers and a younger generation’s reluctance to enter the agricultural workforce threatens food security in Asia, experts said at a discussion about agriculture at a...
View ArticleEditorial: Implementation Trumps Ideas
Presidential hopefuls Prabowo Subianto and Joko Widodo are scheduled to promote their food, energy and environmental programs in Saturday night’s fifth and final presidential debate. Both contenders...
View ArticleIndia Spurns the WTO and That’s OK
India was painted as the hijacker of a $1 trillion boost to world trade last week in Geneva after it became the only country at a meeting of the 160-member World Trade Organization to refuse to sign a...
View ArticleCommentary: Why We Need to Grow More With the Same Land
There are three main reasons why the productivity of existing farmland will need to dramatically increase in the next 40 years: The world’s population is unlikely to stabilize this century and is on...
View ArticleBPPT’s Artificial Rice to Help Meet Indonesian Demand
Jakarta. Indonesia’s Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), is planning to put artificial rice on the market to support the government’s food diversification program. The...
View ArticleFAO: 8 Percent of Indonesians Are Chronically Hungry
Jakarta. Nearly 20 million Indonesians, of a total population of 250 million, go to bed hungry every night, according to a regional overview of food insecurity in Asia and the Pacific, issued by the...
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Enough to Eat: Indonesia’s Food Security Drive Gains Renewed Urgency
A child drinking milk, during an event in Yogyakarta on May 31. Thousands of people at the event were campaigning for a healthy lifestyle by drinking milk, to raise awareness of good nutrition and...
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