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Tanzania sugar project leaves bitter taste for farmers caught up in land disputes

2015-10-21 13:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Ariel Zirulnick: Per Carstedt, executive chairman of the Swedish company Agro EcoEnergy, has a vision for a shrubby tract of land on the north Tanzanian coast. Under his firms plan, farmers who once depended on subsistence work will earn wages on a sugarcane plantation or from selling sugarcane they grow to a planned processing facility. The factory will process sugar for export as well as for ethanol. The fields will be crisscrossed with irrigation canals and treated with a mix of organic and synthetic fertiliser....

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Recent court ruling may have nudged Google, Microsoft to settle patent disputes

2015-10-05 10:45:12| Wireless - Topix.net

A few days before Microsoft and Google announced that they were dropping their patent disputes, a decision in an appeals court may have helped the two companies focus on a lasting compromise over their expensive lawsuits over smartphone and other patents. On Sept.

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Southwest Airlines defends fares, disputes Delta's accusations

2015-09-04 05:40:24| Airlines - Topix.net

A Southwest Airlines-hired consultant is defending Southwest's fares at Dallas Love Field against attacks leveled by a Delta Air Lines-hired consultant. In a filing Thursday afternoon in U.S. District Court, Southwest summarized the testimony that will be given by its consultant, Campbell-Hill Aviation Group chairman Brian Campbell.

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USTR disputes COOL claims: $91 million vs. $3.1 billion

2015-08-10 18:03:00| National Hog Farmer

By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, D.C. U.S. Trade Representative claims economic methodology used by Canada and Mexico is flawed and thus have seriously overestimated the damage that can be attributed to country-of-origin labeling. read more

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