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FAO Calls for “Paradigm Shift” Towards Sustainable Agriculture
2014-09-30 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - Policy makers should support a broad array of approaches to overhauling global food systems, making them healthier and more sustainable while acknowledging that "we cannot rely on an input intensive model to increase production and that the solutions of the past have shown their limits," said FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva in his opening remarks to the 24th session of the Committee on Agriculture (COAG).
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Big Shift In China Economy To 'disrupt' Western Retailers: Li & Fung Head
2014-09-29 19:14:50| Logistics - Topix.net
China's role in supplying cheap consumer goods to the West could end in coming years due to rising domestic consumption and worker pay, stoking inflation and unsettling retailers in Western markets, the chairman of logistics group Li & Fung "China will disrupt the world," William Fung of Hong Kong-based Li & Fung, which supplies firms like Walmart Stores Inc China is a country that operates in economic cycles of 30 years, Fung said, and between 1979 and 2009, it had been the world's "factory" producing consumer goods at low prices, notably thanks to the low wages paid to its workers. "When China starts consuming and with India right behind it, I predict a round of price increases and margin squeezes," he Fung said.
TSX extends losses, Encana speeds up shift to liquids in US$7.1B deal
2014-09-29 17:50:14| Energy - Topix.net
The Toronto stock market resumed last week's selloff Monday amid news of a major acquisition in the energy sector and another round of concerns about Chinese economic growth. The S&P/TSX composite index lost 158.48 points to 14,868.29 with all sectors contributing to the slide after falling 1.55 per cent last week.
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Gravity Shift Reveals West Antarctic Ice Loss
2014-09-26 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is headed toward unstoppable collapse according to recent studies. A new visual released by the European Space Agency show what the start of that collapse looks like both for the mass of the ice sheet and its signature on the planets gravitational field. We think of gravity as a constant, holding us in place on the planet. But the reality is there are small changes in gravity all over the globe. Not enough that youll feel lighter on your feet in one place compared...
FedEx plans new 250-person warehouse for suburban worker shift
2014-09-26 00:29:20| Air Courier - Topix.net
FedEx Freight, the business-to-business shipping business of Memphis-based FedEx Corp. is planning a warehouse in Lakeville that could grow to 250 jobs FedEx Freight wants to open a new 94,000-square-foot facility in Lakeville and close its two Roseville distribution operations. The company will offer transfers to Lakeville for the 125 workers in Roseville, according to Mike Kevitch , managing director, real estate development for FedEx Freight.
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