Sterling Energy has announced that it is withdrawing from the Sangaw North Production Sharing Contract (“PSC”) in Kurdistan. Shares in the company were trading down 3.3 percent on Friday morning: Interpretation of the 2D ...
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Every organic organization I’ve come across usually argues loudly that organic farming is the one and only, truly-sustainable production system the world needs. But can organic really hack it in a modern world, especially when ...
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Fair Trade USA's Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) for apparel released a report on the recently completed Fair Trade Certified apparel pilot program. Launched in 2010 after an extensive feasibility study and stakeholder consultation period, ...
The UK government is anti-organic and is therefore failing “to promote its benefits” to the public, the boss of an organic and free-from bakery has claimed. Lise Madsen, md at Honeyrose Bakery in London, made the remarks in ...
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GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron thick, which opens up the possibility of a whole new field ...
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Related Media USDA whistles past the Pigford graveyard Breitbart and Pigford: Fraud claims and farmer lawsuits Tired of waiting for resolution of Pigford II, the Memphis-based Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association (BFAA) is ...
The UK government is anti-organic and is therefore failing “to promote its benefits” to the public, the boss of an organic and free-from bakery has claimed. Lise Madsen, md at Honeyrose Bakery in London, made the remarks in ...
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Note: Gross output value of agriculture is obtained by first multiplying the output of each product or by product by its price, resulting in the output value of each single item. For a small number of products, annual output of which is ...
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Note: Gross output value of agriculture is obtained by first multiplying the output of each product or by product by its price, resulting in the output value of each single item. For a small number of products, annual output of which is ...
Tags: Output Value, Farming, Forestry, Animal Husbandry, Fishery
Müller Wiseman is building a new butter plant in Shropshire that will create 100 jobs by the end of 2013. Müller Wiseman's new butter plant in Shropshire will create 100 jobs by the end of the year The dairy firm is ...
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The appointment of Christine Tacon as the UK’s first groceries code adjudicator is “an important step in the battle to ensure fairness across the supply chain”, according to the National Farmers Union (NFU) and others. ...
As published in the December 20 issue of Nature, an international consortium of scientists has assembled a 'gold standard' sequence of the simplest cotton variety (Gossypium raimondii) and compared it to 'draft' sequences of three other ...
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During the enforced idleness that came with a cold, rainy, dreary holiday period in which the sun seemed to be in permanent hiding, we watched reruns of the second season of the wildly popular PBS series, “Downton Abbey.” I ...
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The U.S. Embassy, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), met from January 15 to January 17 to help Iraq improve its agricultural sector through the U.S.-funded ...
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The UK Government has announced that Christine Tacon, ex-head of the Co-operative Group's farming business, will be its first Groceries Code Adjudicator. In her new role, Tacon will have the power to launch investigations into suspected ...
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