IDG News Service - If offering best wishes to a Facebook friend on his birthday isn't enough, users can now attach real gifts to their greeting with an expanded gift service that the social networking Web site announced on Thursday. ...
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Statistics contained in the latest UNECE/FAO Forest Products Annual Market Review 2011-2012 indicate that softwood lumber consumption in the UNECE region (Europe, North America and former CIS countries) remained on its upward path in 2011. ...
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First, it was in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Starting from the late 1990s, many Uganda dealers have raided the rich forests of that volatile eastern part of that country and cut down trees in a smuggling campaign that ...
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Codex Alimentarius Commission,the UN food standards body,has unveiled new safety standards for food products,which includes the maximum level of melamine in liquid milk formula,in order to ensure food safety. The Commission is responsible ...
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The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization(FAO)has announced a$3m project to improve food security and nutrition in Egypt. The project is being financed by the government of Italy.It aims to improve food and nutrition security ...
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Ghanaian local communities would soon be producing lumber to shore up the volume of legal lumber supply for the domestic market. This would be achieved through the implementation of a project by Tropenbos International (TBI) Ghana, that ...
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BlackRock Inc. (BLK), the world’s biggest money manager, said producers of seeds and farming equipment make a better investment than agricultural commodities as new technologies boosting production may lead to lower food prices. World ...
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