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Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia | 6 months ago
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Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg Sunday 25 November 2012 Last Update 25 November 2012 3:32 am I AM sure many were surprised, as I was, when a leading Saudi newspaper published on its first page last week a report on accomplishments of a local company. The
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Singapore seeks answers to rising food prices
Singapore :: Singapore | 7 months ago
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Singapore is looking to develop urban farming to create more sustainable food sources In the middle of a concrete-covered housing estate in Singapore, Derrick Ng picks his way between the muddy rows of plants he is growing. Barely bigger than a
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Biofuel debate heats up
Geneva :: Switzerland | 7 months ago
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A Swiss study recently joined a chorus of claims that crop-produced biofuels are actually less green than they claim to be. Less than five per cent of all fuels used every year in Switzerland are biofuels. Nonetheless, these so-called green fuels'
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Railway passengers find hike in food prices h...
Pune :: India | 7 months ago
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Railway passengers find hike in food prices hard to digest '+google_ads[i].line2 +' '+google_ads[i].line3 + ' With the Indian Railways increasing the rates of food items in pantry cars by 25-40 per cent, passengers are finding the hike rather
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Rising food prices are climate change's first tangible bite into UK lives | Damian Carrington
Sheffield :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
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Rising food prices are climate change's first tangible bite into UK lives The UK's dreadful harvest from a sodden summer is a warning that the impact of global warming is getting close to home Wheat grain harvested near Cambridge but the overall UK
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Wet weather to hit UK food prices
London :: United Kingdom | 8 months ago
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Wet weather set to hit UK food prices The UK saw its wettest summer for a century, Met Office figures have shown Food prices look set to rise after poor UK harvests due to recent wet weather. The National Farmers' Union (NFU) said wheat yields in
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Comptroller: Postpone Price Hike
Jerusalem :: Israel | 8 months ago
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He called on ministers to freeze their activity in the matter, and asked MK Uri Ariel, head of the State Control Committee, to move forward a planned meeting to discuss the issue. The planned hikes include scheduled price increases for several food
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Number of hungry down to 868 million: UN
Peru :: NY :: USA | 8 months ago
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THE United Nations' food agencies have revised down a projection that the number of hungry people in the world had topped one billion in the wake of the global economic crisis, announcing a new estimate of 868 million for the 2010-12 period. Tuesday.
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Rwanda raises fuel prices, blames cost of oil on global markets
Kigali :: Rwanda | 8 months ago
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A customer uses a petrol nozzle to fill up his tank in a gas station in Nice August 27, 2012. Rwanda has increased fuel prices after global crude prices rose, the country's ministry of trade and industry said on Friday. Rwanda had lowered fuel prices
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Retail FDI will help increase productivity: RBI
Mumbai :: India | 8 months ago
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Government's decision to allow FDI in multi-brand retail would help increase productivity and ensure an efficient foodgrain distribution network to tackle high food prices, RBI Deputy Governor Subir Gokarn said here today. "The ultimate solution to
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