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Food-fuel feud
With vegetable oils finding a new use as car fuel, we may end up facing a food shortage or paying more for food. Soaring demand for corn, sugar cane, rapeseed and palm oil to make biofuels has driven up prices of these crops, and that of food made from them.
NZ wants beef import ban lifted
New Zealand has asked Malaysia to lift the two-year import ban on its beef, which was imposed when the meat was deemed not I>halal/I>.
Shrinking choices
Farmers have, over thousands of years, cultivated some 140,000 rice varieties but today, only a handful of hybrid breeds are planted.
Kiwis ask Malaysia to lift ban on beef imports from New Zealand
New Zealand has asked Malaysia to lift the two-year import ban on its beef, which was imposed when the meat was deemed not halal.
Move to cut acid-rain toxins by 66%
ACID rain-causing pollution from power stations could be cut by nearly two-thirds over the next five years, as the government promises intensified efforts to meet environmental goals that have so far been missed.
Hearts touched
It was a song about the tears of trees but it brought tears to the eyes of the listeners instead.
So much from so little land FAO lauds food programme
It is a remarkable achievement that China, with only 7% of the world's arable land, is able to feed its 1.3 billion people - a quarter of the global population.
WTO plans threaten sea life - Greenpeace
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Pirates and licenced trawlers are pillaging the world's oceans, while proposals on the table for trade ministers meeting in Switzerland next week could prove the final blow to sea life, Greenpeace said on Friday.
UNDP rep lauds progress made so far
Malaysia has achieved much success in improving the livelihood of the rural poor and in promoting sustainable use of forest resources, said a UN Development Programme (UNDP) representative in Miri.
U.N. drive for ban on ocean bottom trawling fails
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. negotiators failed to agree on Thursday on a measure banning a fishing practice known as high-seas bottom trawling that environmentalists say chews up the ocean floor and depletes fish stocks.
