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15 Décembre 2020
Forced labour much more widespread than initially thought in China region that supplies a fifth of the world’s cotton
More than half a million people from ethnic minority groups in Xinjiang have been coerced into picking cotton, on a scale far greater than…
15 Décembre 2020
Yang Zeqiang's boat chugs across the Yangtze ferrying a few people and sacks of grain -- his new source of income after all fishing was halted along China's longest river in the name of environmental protection.
As a boy, Yang remembers seeing his father and grandfather head out in the early…
3 Décembre 2020
A China publicou nesta quinta-feira um novo projeto de lei sobre a gestão de suas reservas de grãos, com o objetivo de implementar a supervisão dos estoques em regiões e províncias, em momento em que tenta reforçar sua segurança alimentar.
As regras anteriores sobre as reservas de grãos só eram…
30 Novembre 2020
Big projects backed by Beijing have gained fresh momentum now that the Rajapaksas have staged a political comeback
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—China is poised to start building a $13 billion city on Sri Lanka’s seafront, as the island nation located near some of the world’s most important shipping lanes…
25 Novembre 2020
Sandwiched between China and India, the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan is feeling the squeeze as its giant neighbours square up for supremacy.
A close ally of India, Bhutan got a shock when China made sudden new claims in the summer - over a wildlife sanctuary in the east of the country, on land…
24 Novembre 2020
In a new study, researchers say that land inequality is rising in most countries. Worse, new measures and analysis proves that land inequality is significantly higher than previously recorded, with data reporting a 41 percent increase compared to traditional census data.
The report, Uneven Ground…
20 Novembre 2020
Measures put in place to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus could lead to a massive disruption to food supplies. Following a Call to Action for World Leaders, the FOLU community is working to protect food supplies, farmers, others involved in the production of food and vulnerable communities…
Conflito entre Índia e China em fronteira no Himalaia 'não pode ser descartado', diz especialista ()
14 Septembre 2020
Índia e China se engajaram em uma temporada de confrontos, provocações e desentendimentos na região contestada de Ladakh, no Himalaia. Quais as chances de conflito militar e quais grupos têm interesse na deterioração das relações entre as duas potências nucleares?
No dia 15 de junho deste…
9 Septembre 2020
O ministro da Agricultura e Assuntos Rurais da China, Han Changfu, destacou a necessidade de o país manter foco nas metas estabelecidas pelo presidente Xi Jinping para produção alimentar no país. O ministro disse que os departamentos agrícolas e rurais do país, em todos os níveis, devem assumir…
5 Septembre 2020
China estimates that by 2030, when its population is expected to reach 1.5 billion, it will need to produce an additional 100 million tons of food grains each year.
New Delhi: China faces a daunting task to feed 22 per cent of the world population with only 07 per cent of the global arable land.…
20 Août 2020
(Main photo: a surveyor sits on a construction site in Ningbo, China, on April 26, 2020. Local governments have long offered firms connected to China’s political elite land sale discounts. Photo: Bloomberg)
While a study found that firms linked to members of the Politburo enjoyed a sizeable…
10 Août 2020
Main photo: new high-rise apartments are under construction in villages around Heze, in eastern China's Shandong province. Rural residents say these complexes are too expensive, too far away from their fields and ill-suited for farmers (Amy Cheng/NPR)
A farmer from Shandong province along China's…