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Could a global grab for fertile soil, bring civil unrest?
2014-03-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The estimated 1.6 billion hectares of fertile soils currently under cultivation can certainly feed the current world population. If we still have approximately 800 million undernourished and hungry people on this planet, it is due to serious imbalances in the distribution of wealth, land and natural resources in general. Market driven preference to allocate part of the fertile soils to producing energy or biofuels instead of food, as well as unsustainable consumption habits and market distortion...
Crimea crisis could raise global food prices, triggering social unrest
2014-03-21 12:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The crisis in Crimea could cause instability and unrest in the Middle East and North Africa by causing a spike in global food prices, researchers from Anglia Ruskin University have warned. Experts from the universitys Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) have said that the fallout from Crimeas vote to join Russia could have much wider implications. Ukraine had been expected to become the worlds third largest exporter of grain in 2014, but the recent unrest has caused observers to question...
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Cambodia Apparel Exports Threatened by Social Unrest (Country Report)
2014-01-16 20:36:48| EmergingTextiles.com
Cambodia's apparel exports surged in 2013, but repeated riots and strikes, and a new rise of the minimum wage may benefit rival Vietnam. Our statistical tables provide a comprehensive view of latest export trends with detailed EU and US import data per category of products.
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Romanian Shale-Gas Protesters Roughed up, Unrest in Ukraine Spooks Investors
2014-01-01 20:56:41| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Also, a Lithuanian court sides with a journalist on sources and Russia's new space center is cited for building violations.
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BANGLADESH: Garment exports surge 21% despite unrest
2013-12-23 12:42:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Bangladesh's ready-made garment exports are continuing to soar, rising by nearly 21% in the first five months of the current fiscal year despite on-going political unrest centring ahead of next month's parliamentary election.
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