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Tokyoites, for example, traded their precious garments, from wedding dresses to fine kimonos, with rural farmers for rice and
vegetables.
In fact, India – the world’s largest producer of milk and edible oils, and the second-largest producer of wheat, fruits, vegetables, and sugar – produces enough food to combat hunger.
More than 40% of the fruits and
vegetables
that India produces rot, owing to mismanagement and corruption, inadequate infrastructure, lack of refrigerated storage, shoddy logistics, and underdeveloped marketing channels.
In fact, the free-market “Anglo-Saxon” attitude sounds like nothing so much as the old prejudices about the French that have been around since the novelist Thackeray told English readers: “The Frenchman has after his soup a dish of vegetables, where you have one of meat.
As a result, the IARC has in the past classified aloe vera, acrylamide (a substance created by frying foods, such as French fries and potato chips), cell phones, working night shifts, Asian pickled vegetables, and coffee as “probable” or “possible” carcinogens.
Potential for public-private partnerships exist in energy and telecommunications projects, in wells and irrigation, in the construction sector, in infrastructure such as roads, airports, and harbors, and in processing plants for agro industries, meat, fruit, and
vegetables.
They are apparent in the growing army of child laborers picking
vegetables
in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley or working at garment factories in Turkey, where a half-million refugees are out of school.
Indeed, China is believed to supply about 70% of the North's oil, and has doubled its sales of grain and
vegetables.
Although this is how governments calculate real exchange-rate changes, it no doubt overstates the relative change in the prices of the goods that Americans buy from China, because much of China’s inflation was caused by rising prices for housing, local vegetables, and other non-tradables.
India may be the world’s largest milk producer and grow the second largest quantity of fruits and
vegetables
(after China), but it is also the world’s biggest waster of food.
He later lent himself to a spot in a tv commercial, promoting vegetarianism, in which his line was that though he only ate fruit and
vegetables
what he really liked was "eating politicians for breakfast".
And farmers throughout the Global South are turning to SMS-based services for technical support that allows them more easily to adopt new crops and growing techniques, with benefits for both natural resources and household income and nutrition.Connectivity also improves the functioning of markets by allowing farmers and herders to access accurate price information, coordinate transport and other logistics, and facilitate easier exchange of perishable but nutritious foods such as animal products and
vegetables.
Connectivity also improves the functioning of markets by allowing farmers and herders to access accurate price information, coordinate transport and other logistics, and facilitate easier exchange of perishable but nutritious foods such as animal products and
vegetables.
Subsistence farming of traditional food grains, fruits, and
vegetables
is giving way to cash crops and monocultures dependent on high-priced inputs that small farmers cannot afford and water that they can’t provide.
The refrigerator made it possible for almost everyone to eat more fruits and vegetables, and simply to stop eating rotten food, which is the main reason why the most prevalent cancer for men in the United States in 1930, stomach cancer, is the least prevalent now.
The TPP would improve Japan’s trade prospects considerably, including in sensitive sectors like agriculture, where exports of fast-moving consumer goods like flowers and
vegetables
would benefit.
Over the last decade alone, vegetable production in the Asia-Pacific region, where more than three-quarters of the world’s
vegetables
are grown, increased by one-quarter.
In pursuit of protein-rich meals, Nkhoma is pushing her cluster of villages, representing a thousand households in all, to begin raising chickens for eggs and meat, cows for milk, and “exotic”
vegetables
such as cabbage for vitamins.
About a decade ago, four Dutch engineers – three of whom were also horticultural experts – initiated the “plant paradise” project to learn how high-value herbs, vegetables, and berries (not grains or tree fruits) grow best.
The only water that leaves a PPU does so in fruits and vegetables; there is no evaporation into the air, no runoff into the ground, and no pesticides or weeds.
And it would supply 50,000 people with a consistently high-quality seven-ounce (198.4 grams) daily requirement of fresh herbs, vegetables, and ground fruits like berries for at least ten years – all in less space that the average multi-story parking lot.
As a result, agricultural output soared, and farmers produced a range of additional crops, like flowers and vegetables, to sell directly to the public.
In the market for fresh vegetables, for example, prices must balance the supply and demand for the current harvest.
Studies have shown that there is a significant positive association between a higher intake of fruits and
vegetables
and reduced risk of chronic disease.
Fruits and
vegetables
are sources of numerous micronutrients, and some, including b-carotene (a precursor of vitamin A), vitamin C, vitamin E, and selenium, have potential as antioxidants.
But what specifically makes fruits and
vegetables
so beneficial is not clear.
More than one-third of adults in developed countries now ingest antioxidant pills, which is much easier than eating fruits and
vegetables.
In short, we should stop taking pills and eat more fruits and
vegetables.
Using the state of Rajasthan as an example again, creating the infrastructure to store and transport milk, fruit, and
vegetables
safely would cost half as much as loan waivers.
Except for wild berries and wild mushrooms, virtually all the fruits, vegetables, and grains in European and North American diets have been genetically improved by one technique or another – often as a result of seeds being irradiated or undergoing hybridizations that move genes from one species or genus to another in ways that do not occur in nature.
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