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Argument - Diet Change Intervention Costs
China, and it would also slow the conversion of cropland areas for tobacco cultivation, which has more than tripled since 1978. Crucial Issues There are two problems to ... China's domestic tobacco production more than tripled and the total area of tobacco cultivation increased from 784,000 to 2.4 million ha. The size of China's tobacco cultivation area is now significantly ...
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Issue #26: April 2007 | Post Carbon Institute
Kentucky State University to look for alternatives to tobacco cultivation as the site experiments with sweet sorghum processing for small-scale production of ethanol. The ... changing climate and a lack of energy to power large scale irrigation systems. Besides the cultivation of spring crops we are working hard to establish necessary farm infrastructure, including a ...
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Origins of agriculture
Domesticated their stimulants qualities were tobacco in North America, coca and mate in South America, coffee in Ethiopia and tea, ... a competitive advantage. The plants responded by evolving traits that increased their suitability for human cultivation. Plants have evolved many strategies to use animals to disperse their seed more efficiently ...
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Acacia mearnsii
Handbook of Energy Crops. unpublished. Uses Folk Medicine Chemistry Description Germplasm Distribution Ecology Cultivation Harvesting Yields and Economics Energy Biotic Factors References Uses Tree of economic importance ... are effective in preventing further erosion on 50° slopes. Some farmers claim that tobacco and vegetable yields are doubled in rotating with the black wattle. In places ...
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Report on invasive plant species on Tonga
Solanum mauritianum (pula, bugweed, wild tobacco, tree tobacco) is quite prevalent throughout Tonga. It is a noxious weed in South Africa (Henderson ... a few examples, mostly in cultivation, were seen on Tonga. Bryophyllum pinnatum [Kalanchoë pinnata] (pipi vao, life plant, air plant) was seen both in cultivation and naturalized. It reproduces ...
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Navdanya catalogue
Millets of India: A survey of literature and Navdanya's field experience in cultivation of indigenous millets 35 Monsanto - Peddling "Life Sciences" or "Death Sciences" 50 Rani and ... Recovery of Commong. Biodiversity, indigenous knowledge and intellectual property rights 150 The Beedi ban, Tobacco Monopolies and the myth of Child Labour. Deconstructing the politics of trade sanctions 70 ...
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Genetically Engineered Crops - A Threat to Soil Fertility?
(De Vries, J. & Wackernagel, W., 1998). Furthermore ... that there occurs an accumulation of vector DNA in the soil microbiota with repeated GMO cultivation. This would enable horizontal transfer between unrelated species, leading to a cumulative loss of ...
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Structural Adjustment: Tanzania
Structural adjustment is responsible for a 13% increase in land area used for tobacco farming. It has also increased construction which directly increases demand for wood and thus ... . Structural adjustment has also differentially hurt the poorer farmers because pricing schemes have caused cultivation of marginal lands. Thus, a positive feedback loop has been created causing a downward ...
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Conservatree
Whatever the case, the ... and food production. Paper Company Fiber Products Costa Rica Natural Banana, Coffee Bean, Citrus, Tobacco Stationery Notebooks The Text & Cover Mill Brands A few of the major paper companies ...
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Emergency Management Postings
In the West, the security situation was relatively quiet, but increased crime rate and poppy cultivation raised some concerns. In the South, the road between Ghazni and Kandahar provinces remains ... in some districts due to poor road conditions and higher competitive transport offers from tobacco industries. Strategic planning meetings continue with implementing partners and NGOs to discuss WFP's ...
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