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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Chow Pain Faced with contaminated food, Chinese shoppers pony up for organics		13 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Chow Pain Faced with contaminated food, Chinese shoppers pony up for organics Got a hankering for lard made from sewage and industrial oil? Look no further than the mean streets of China's cities. Such "fake food," along with real food contaminated by pollution and pesticides, is showing up on shelves -- and turning the stomachs of urban denizens. As a result, according to state-conducted research, mo ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Indelicacies Chinese appetite for exotic foods driving trade in endangered species		07 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Indelicacies Chinese appetite for exotic foods driving trade in endangered species Many Chinese believe that wild game improves health. Whether or not that's true, the country's enormous market for rare and exotic "delicacies" is not improving the health of endangered species. "Just in the last two years, 12 to 13 species have had to be CITES-listed because of China's food trade," said Gail Cochr ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, wildlife (all these topics)

You Will Live a GM-free Life ... in Bed		22 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
You Will Live a GM-free Life ... in Bed Until recently, China seemed to be positioning itself as a world leader in bioengineered foods, spending tens of millions of dollars on new technologies and touting the benefits of genetically modified rice, soybeans, and other crops. Now, though, the nation has imposed tough restrictions on domestic planting of genetically modified (GM) crops and strict labeling rules fo ...
Topics: business, China, food and agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Grain and Bear It		19 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Grain and Bear It New policies emerging in China could bode well for that poster child of protection efforts, the panda. In an article published last week in the journal Science, scientists from the World Wildlife Fund and Beijing University praised China's National Forest Conservation Program and its "Grain-to-Green" policy as likely to preserve habitat crucial to pa ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, national forests, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Chinese Water Table Torture China's water table levels are dropping fast	Lester R. Brown	26 Oct 2001	Main Dish
If you aren't normally fascinated by China's agricultural problems, then an obscure report issued this summer on the state of the nation's water supply might have struck you as rather dry. But in this case, dry is precisely the problem: The water table under the North China Plain, which produces over half of China's wheat and a third of its corn, is falling at an alarming rate. A Chinese farme ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture (all these topics)

Blast Off! Momentum grows for greener ways of farming	Hal Clifford	28 Sep 2001	Main Dish
Rice as rice can be. In the humid hills of China's Yunnan province, rice farmers make their living from plots of land smaller than many American yards. High, cool, and wet, the country here is rich, yielding almost a thousand pounds of rice per acre. But farmers face a perennial scourge: rice blast. Rice blast is caused by a fungus that cuts off nutrients to the rice seed head and destroys crops. It thrives in r ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, United States (all these topics)

They Paved Pears and Rice and Put Up a Parking Lot Pavement is replacing the world's croplands	Lester R. Brown	01 Mar 2001	Main Dish
As the new century begins, the competition between cars and crops for cropland is intensifying. Until now, the paving over of cropland has occurred largely in industrial countries, home to four-fifths of the world's 520 million automobiles. But now, more and more farmland is being sacrificed in developing countries with hungry populations, calling into question the future ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, India, placemaking, United States (all these topics)

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