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AGRICULTURE

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LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
Jun 28, 2020
How to compost in a cardboard box at home
Cardboard box composting, a method that's become popular in Japan, is cheap, simple, bad-odor-free and well-suited to small spaces.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Jun 21, 2020
The time is ripe to plant a microgarden: Here’s how to get started
Here's how to use any container you have on hand to start your own microgarden, even in Japan's cramped urban centers.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 5, 2020
Malaysia farms face $3 billion hit from palm oil worker shortage
The coronavirus pandemic has left Malaysia’s palm oil industry without enough workers, a shortage that could cost farmers as much as 25 percent of their annual production — a loss worth about $2.8 billion.
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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Jun 5, 2020
Hokkaido farms and fisheries hit as campus closure robs them of workers
With university students having headed home due to the COVID-19 outbreak, business owners are feeling the effects of a severe labor shortage.
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JAPAN / Regional Voices: Kyushu
May 29, 2020
Japan’s farming and fisheries schools struggle to move lessons online
Students who are required to go through practical training, sometimes so they can attain national qualifications, are not able to carry that out at present.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
May 23, 2020
Making an O-turn: The siren call of Japan’s rural life
Even as employees increasingly work from home, more people are making an “O-turn,” dividing their time equally between the city and the country.
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ASIA PACIFIC
May 23, 2020
How Singapore plans to survive world’s impending food crisis
One of the most densely populated countries on the planet, Singapore's 5.7 million people rely on other nations for almost everything they eat.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
May 16, 2020
Want to help out Japan’s struggling farmers? Eat more dairy and vegetables
COVID-19 is straining Japan's food distribution network, particularly for milk and produce. Good thing this take on a vichyssoise soup uses both.
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BUSINESS
Apr 28, 2020
Piglets aborted and chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector
Farmers say they have no choice but to cull livestock as they run short on space to house their animals or money to feed them.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 26, 2020
U.S. reels toward meat shortages and the world may be next
Plant shutdowns are leaving the U.S. dangerously close to meat shortages as coronavirus outbreaks now spread to suppliers across the Americas.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / Food Sustainability in Japan
Apr 11, 2020
To meat, or not to meat: The future of Japanese cellular agriculture
Would you notice if the cubed meat in your cup noodle wasn’t “real” meat? If you did, would you care? What if the future of our meat supply counted on it?
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BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 7, 2020
Key food prices surge in some areas after virus upends supply chains
As the coronavirus pandemic penetrates more deeply into global supply chains, prices for key staples are starting to soar in some parts of the world.

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