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Banned pesticide use continue in Australian farms

The continued usage of Methyl bromide, a banned pesticide, by the Australian Strawberry farms is increasing health concerns in the country.   As per the Montreal Protocol of United Nations in 1989, Methyl Bromide is banned as it depletes the Ozone layer. Yet, around 70 per cent of strawberry...

China's AIIB gains momentum

China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has found another ally from the developed countries in the form of Australia. The federal government of the country has yesterday announced it intends to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank - allowing...

Jordan signs $10 billion nuke energy deal with Russia

Jordan has signed a $10 billion deal with Russia to build the kingdom’s first nuclear power plant, with two 1,000-megawatt reactors in the northern part of the country. The deal was signed between Jordanian ministers and state-owned Rosatom company to facilitate the energy-poor Jordan to reduce...

Taking care of our farmers in Africa

With almost 80% of the world’s farmers still following, essentially, the same method as our forefathers some 10,000 ago. It is important to address their key vulnerabilities so as to make them resilient towards them. Yesterday’s science fiction is today’s reality. While irrigation drones,...

A marriage between economic sustainability and Spirituality

Our current path of exploiting Nature’s bounty will only ensure the end of our species on this planet. The only way to survive, as a specie is to synthesize and harmonize our needs for our existence with that of Mother Nature. As human beings, our existence on this planet, is on many levels that...

FTC urged by staff to curb Google

The Federal Trade Commission of the US has faced more questions about the way it handled the anti-trust investigation into Google now that an earlier internal report asking for stronger action against the internet giant has been revealed. The 2012 internal report of the commission, submitted by...

Citigroup to accept US court ruling against Argentina bond payments

US-based Citigroup has decided to not appeal a US judge's ruling that it cannot process an Argentine sovereign debt payment if he helps the bank exit its custody business in the default-hit country as swiftly as possible. This move, as revealed by the bank’s lawyers, will create a stir in the...

US mulls review of airlines subsidy in Middle East

The US government has announced that it is mulling over the claims that a large number of Airlines operating from the Middle East has received subsidies which affects the market.   Though the government is moving out with the review, it is unclear how they would substantiate this foray as...

EO100 Emerges as the New Standard for Shale oil and gas Production

Equitable Origin (EO) announced that although the oil and natural gas industry did not have an independent environmental and social standards for review, today it is no more. Today the first independent environmental and social standards for the above mentioned industries have been created and put...

Will fortified flour stop malnutrition in Ethiopia?

USAID in partnership with TechnoServe and the African Alliance for Food Processing, hope to bring the era of malnutrition to an end in Ethiopia. Ethiopia has long been the sad poster-child of malnutrition. If all goes smoothly according to plan however, that picture will undergo a dramatic...
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