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New alliance to cushion farmers from climate-change shocks
2014-05-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Star: Three organisations have formed an alliance to scale up climate smart agriculture in Africa. Alliance brings together various non-governmental organisations, the African Union and Nepad. The three said they will marshal resources to cushion small-scale farmers from climate change shocks. Martin Bwalya, head of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)-NEPAD, said they are targeting 25 million small-scale farmers by 2020 with cost effective farm practices that are easy...
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InstantPCBQuote Shocks the Industry: No Tooling & Test Charges Ever
2014-05-05 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
New Bedford, MA – Epec Engineered Technologies announced today that they will be waiving tooling and test charges FOREVER on all rigid printed circuit board orders placed online through InstantPCBQuote. <br /> <br /> Epec developed InstantPCBQuote, a PCB quote and order tool in-house at the end of 2008. Over the past six years InstantPCBQuote’s user base has exceeded expectations and is used by some of the top companies in the world as a solution for quoting and ordering circuit ...
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Toyota move shocks Northern Ky officialsToyota move shocks Northern...
2014-04-30 06:35:55| Automakers - Topix.net
Northern Kentucky government, school and business leaders expressed shock at Toyota's announcement Monday that it's closing its Erlanger headquarters and moving nearly 1,600 jobs out of Northern Kentucky as part of a nationwide consolidation.
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Japan Earthquake: Shocks Linger Three Years Later
2014-03-11 18:26:24| Energy - Topix.net
An aerial view of damage to Sukuiso, Japan, a week after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated the area in March, 2011.
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UK price rise exposes failure to prepare for food and fuel shocks
2014-03-02 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Just as the world becomes more uncertain, Britain has left itself open to the worst the world can throw at it by becoming a net importer of fuel and a bigger importer of food. If governments are supposed to act as risk managers, protecting their populations from a dangerously volatile and unstable world economy, then successive British governments have failed. The UK is not the only major nation struggling to deal with higher global fuel and food prices and limited home grown resources. Japan,...