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Sugar Playing Catch-Up With Spice
- 15 March 2013
- Independent European Daily Express
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Dotted with rice fields flanked by palm trees, Cambodia’s southeastern province of Kampong Speu is nothing short of picturesque. But behind the idyllic exterior is an on-going struggle to turn this region’s natural beauty into a global attraction and improve the lot of poor local farmers, ...
http://www.iede.co.uk/news/2013_1290/sugar-playing-catch-spice
Farming implicated in climate change
- 5 November 2012
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Environment and natural resources / Social development / The poor
- Agriculture & Agri-business / Agriculture Research Organization / Cambodia Climate Change Alliance / Cambodian Organic Agricultural Association / CGIAR / Climate Change / COrAA / crops / environment / FAO / Food / German Agency for International Cooperation / GHG / GIZ / Global Green House Gas / Greenhouse Gas Emissions / livestock / Ministry of Environment / UN Food and Agricultural Organisation / United Nations / United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Food production accounts for almost one third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to a study published last week by the agricultural research organisation CGIAR. Food systems, from growing crops and raising livestock to storage and transportation, contribute 19 to 29 per cent of global ...
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