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MSNBC
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It's not new for the government to let private farmers take a crack at putting state land to good use. But this time the government is letting farmers more easily buy equipment and supplies at government stores, removing a key impediment to their success...
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Independent
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Growing tensions in France between opponents and supporters of genetically modified crops have led to violent confrontations.
Gendarmes used tear gas and batons to prevent pro-GM farmers from invading a picnic for militant opponents of genetically modi..
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Ananova
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Switzerland's Agriculture Ministry has called on the country's farmers to stop feeding their cows cannabis. Several recent adverts have promoted feeding hemp to farm animals even after a March 2005 law banning its use. The Agriculture Ministry has n..
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Independent
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President Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe, which has mounted a six-year campaign to seize white-owned farms, is beginning to allow some white farmers to return to their land as the country faces starvation and economic collapse...
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BBC News
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The European Agriculture Commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, has announced plans to reduce funding for Europe's biggest farmers.
Anyone currently receiving more than 100,000 euros (�71,000) as part of the Single Payment Scheme would have their aid ca..
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Washington Post
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Xu Xiang, a 37-year-old reporter, showed up in this Sichuan province town in December, tasked with investigating allegations that officials had forced residents off their farmland. Over two days, he interviewed farmers and local authorities, taking time t..
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ABC News
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The Australian livestock export corporation has warned that any ban on live sheep exports could have a detrimental impact on south-east farmers. Animal lobby groups are calling for a ban on animal exports to Egypt, after taking footage they claim shows..
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New York Times
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For close to seven years, Zimbabwe’s economy and quality of life have been in slow, uninterrupted decline. They are still declining this year, people there say, with one notable difference: the pace is no longer so slow. Indeed, Zimbabwe’s economic..
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ABC News
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Poultry farmers around Europe were on guard Monday against the possible spread of bird flu across the North Sea from infected Britain, fearing the disease could be carried by wild birds...
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