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Can Aquaculture Meet China’s Demand For Food?

China has made great efforts to meet increasing domestic food demand over the past four decades. From 1978–2021, China’s real agricultural output grew on average 5.4 per cent a year (over five times the population growth), with increased diversification towards high protein and high-value products. Yet a substantial gap remains …

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The Weaponization Of Food

When Russia bombed the port in Odesa last week, it was not an auspicious beginning to the new deal on grain exports. If anyone believed that this agreement between Moscow and Kyiv would have some positive spillover effect on the war grinding on elsewhere in Ukraine, the Russian military surely …

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L’Afrique ne veut plus s’aligner sur les grandes puissances, quelles qu’elles soient

OPINION. Les anciens colons ont encore la faiblesse de ne pas associer le continent aux grands enjeux mondiaux, estime Robert Dussey, ministre des affaires étrangères du Togo et l’un des diplomates africains les plus influents Le rôle assigné à l’Afrique depuis le début de la guerre en Ukraine est évocateur …

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