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View all search resultsAt a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea that kicked off Tuesday, Kim said the food situation is "getting tense" for the people and instructed party officials to "take a positive measure for settling the problem," according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
Fujicco recently set up a joint venture with the Masuya group, the local operator of the Japanese-food Papaya Fresh Gallery supermarkets, with production lines set to be installed at a plant near Jakarta with the aim of starting sales early next year.
The challenge is how to convince ministers that infrastructure is not only for humans but also for animals and their ecosystems. How to convince President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo that the construction of the Sumatra toll road should not obstruct the routes of the Sumatran elephant and rhino migration or their habitats?
Nowadays, 75 percent of the world’s food is generated from only 12 plants and 5 animal species. The reduced diversity of food crops results in the loss of resilience of agricultural ecosystems. We also lose nutritional quality and benefits for human health and risk the disappearing of local wisdom and traditional knowledge linked to agricultural and food practices of local and Indigenous communities.
The chances are that a predominant portion of food you relished for breakfast today has come from smallholder farmers. In Indonesia, 93 percent of all farmers are smallholders, whose landholding averages a modest 0.6 hectares.
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