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Radical Change Needed For Global AgricultureLondon, UK (SPX) Mar 30, 2010 A report to be released at a pivotal global meeting on agriculture finds that transforming the agriculture agenda to meet the challenges of a warmer, environmentally-degraded world of 9 billion people will require changes "as radical as those that occurred during industrial and agricultural revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries." The comprehensive assessment, Transforming Agricultural Research for Development, suggests the need for massive reform of the architecture of what it terms a current ... read more |
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Brussels (AFP) March 29, 2010Pirates boarded and hijacked a merchant vessel and its mixed-race crew of 24 in the Gulf of Aden before sailing it towards the Somali coast, NATO announced Monday. NATO's counter piracy operation, Ocean Shield, said in a statement that the ship had been just 10 nautical miles from the Yemeni coast when "pirates boarded and hijacked" the roll-on, roll-off vessel. "They took hostage 24 cre ... more  
Geneva (AFP) March 29, 2010The World Health Organisation said Monday it would go ahead next month with an independent review of the response to the swine flu pandemic, after criticism of its role in declaring a global alert. The international response will be scrutinised by a committee of 29 independent health experts and scientists which is being formed by the UN health agency, Special Advisor on Pandemic Influenza K ... more  
Dhaka (AFP) March 29, 2010Bangladesh will form patrols in the world's largest mangrove forest in a bid to stop locals beating the critically endangered Bengal tiger to death, an official said Monday. The move follows an increase in tiger deaths in the 10,000-square-kilometre (3,860 square miles) Sunderbans forest, with dozens beaten to death over the last decade after wandering into local villages. "It's impossib ... more |
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U.S.-India spent nuclear fuel deal reachedNew Delhi (UPI) Mar 29, 2009 The United States and India reached an agreement Monday allowing India to reprocess spent nuclear fuel from the United States for civilian energy purposes. The agreement will allow American companies to participate in India's "rapidly expanding "civil nuclear energy sector, the U.S. State Department said in a statement. The announcement comes ahead of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's April 12-13 visit to Washington for the Nuclear Security Summit. "The agreement to make Indi ... read more |
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