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A 2010 packaging law stipulated that 19 essential items must be contained and transported in jute sacks, but the legislation failed to protect the jute industry, which employs three million households.
Food & Agriculture
Vietnam’s coffee boom rooted in decades of deforestation: report
New research links decades of coffee expansion to widespread forest loss in Vietnam's Central Highlands, raising concerns over the crop's long-term resilience.
Five years after Thailand banned paraquat and chlorpyrifos, farmers and consumers remain unsafe from the overuse of other dangerous agrochemicals.
Food & Agriculture
Cambodia’s Indigenous communities say they are barred from sacred sites
A decades-long community effort has protected Cambodia’s Chom Penh forest, but the Kuy say expanding agribusiness threatens their ancestral lands and cultural identity.
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Food & Agriculture
Cash crop boom in Bangladesh’s hills puts ecosystems at risk
11 March 2026
Food & Agriculture
Nations off track to meet UN pesticide risk reduction targets, study finds
25 February 2026
Food & Agriculture
India's pesticide reforms overlooks human health
19 February 2026
Food & Agriculture
China can drive Asia’s transition to green agriculture
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Food & Agriculture
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Food & Agriculture
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