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International Folk Art Market In Santa Fe: Artisan Retail With A Purpose
Forbes
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International Folk Art Market guests in front of the IFAM marquee. © Gabriella Marks; Courtesy of IFAM Look beyond the art. Beyond the dazzling technique and skill. Beyond the individual artist even. Look all the way back to community. See...
'Farming Simulator 25' Highlands Fishing Expansion Arrives In November, Adds New Machines, Animal Types And Map - Screens & Trailer
Worthplaying - California
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Virtual farmers manage their agricultural empires in a new, lush East Asian landscape filled with rice paddies, a North American environment with plenty of open space, or a Central European location with green fields between ponds and rivers....
Farm, animal husbandry ministries warn against duty reliefs to US
Financial Express
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As the final phase of talks for a interim trade deal with the US is under way in Washington, official sources here said that the Union ministries of agriculture, animal husbandry and fisheries said that they had taken “firm positions” against...
Farming within Earth’s limits is still possible – but it will take a Herculean effort
The Conversation
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July 1, 2025
The way we currently produce and consume food takes a big toll on the environment. Worldwide, farming is responsible for more than 20% of greenhouse gas emissions and uses more than 70% of all fresh water taken from rivers, lakes and groundwater....
International News Briefs for Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Havana Times
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July 1, 2025
HAVANA TIMES – Here are some of the top international news stories compiled by Democracy Now on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. Israel Bombs Crowded Gaza Cafe, Killing Dozens, Including Children Jul 01, 2025 Israeli attacks on Gaza killed nearly 100...
Agriculture Minister to visit Kashmir
The Kashmir Monitor
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July 1, 2025
Srinagar, July 1: Union Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan is visiting Jammu and Kashmir on July 3 to review multiple schemes in the rural development and agriculture sectors. Sources said the union minister will...
FARM Program Offers HR and Safety Support
National Milk Producers Federation
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June 30, 2025
Hoard's Dairyman: June 30, 2025 By Sage Saffran, Manager, Sustainability Initiatives Dairy owners and managers are often looking for ways to attract and retain employees. That’s why the National Dairy Farmers Assuring Responsible Management (FARM)...
National Guard Troops Sent To California By Trump Are Just Out There Doing Drug Busts
Techdirt
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July 1, 2025
from the abandoning-the-pretense dept Martial law? Police state? These are just things the alleged Leader of Free World wants, rather than things a nation founded on rejecting these options should be in the process of instituting. And yet, here we...
World Bank Group Appoints New Division Director For Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros And Seychelles
MENAFN
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July 1, 2025
(MENAFN- APO Group) The World Bank Group has appointed Fily Sissoko as the new Division Director for Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros, and Seychelles, effective today. He succeeds Idah Pswarayi-Riddihough, who held the position for the...
World News | Starmer Faces Down Revolt over UK Welfare Reform After Troubled First Year in Office
Latestly
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July 1, 2025
London, Jul 1 (AP) UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer marks a year in office this week, fighting a rebellion from his own party in a vote Tuesday on welfare reform and reckoning with a sluggish economy and rock-bottom approval ratings. It's a long way...
Global Markets Hit Records As Political Drama Unfolds Worldwide
MENAFN
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July 1, 2025
(MENAFN- DailyFX (IG)) US markets defy political gridlock to hit fresh records The numbers tell the story. The S&P 500 jumped 10.57% and the Nasdaq 100 soared 17.75% for the quarter, both closing at record highs. Yet beneath the surface, all...
Foreign Minister Rana urges global firms to invest directly in Nepal’s agriculture sector
Nepal News
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July 1, 2025
ROME: Foreign Minister Dr. Arzu Rana Deuba has called on multinational companies around the world to make direct foreign investment in Nepal’s agricultural sector. Addressing a high-level session on agriculture and food systems organized as part...
Global urea prices rise with Middle East conflict
Farm Talk - Kansas
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Courtesy Adobe Stock. “Global prices of key fertilizer ingredient urea have surged alongside escalating [conflict] in the Middle East, which threatens to choke supplies of [urea] from a significant producing and exporting region,” reported...
Agritech startup Eeki raised $7 million from Sixth Sense Ventures
The Economic Times
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July 1, 2025
Agritech startup Eeki has raised $7 million from consumer-focussed fund Sixth Sense Ventures. The funds will be used for scaling up and expanding farm operations across India, as well as accelerating its technology rollouts. “We are expanding to...
2025 FAO Awards honour organizations from Colombia, Egypt, and the Philippines for their contributions to agrifood systems transformation
Food and Agriculture Organization
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Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced the winners of the 2025 FAO Awards, recognizing organizations from Colombia, Egypt, and the Philippines, whose work has led to outstanding progress in building more...
World Bank praises Cote d'Ivoire for effective use of development funding
Xinhua News Agency
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ABIDJAN, July 1 (Xinhua) -- The World Bank is satisfied with the management of its project portfolio in Cote d'Ivoire, which totals 5 billion U.S. dollars, Ousmane Diagana, the bank's regional vice president for Western and Central Africa, said on...
Ice raids leave crops unharvested at California farms: ‘We need the labor’
The Guardian
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July 1, 2025
Lisa Tate is a sixth-generation farmer in Ventura county, California, an area that produces billions of dollars worth of fruit and vegetables each year, much of it hand-picked by immigrants in the US illegally. Tate knows the farms around her...
Measuring Farming’s Impact on Sustainable Food Systems
Bioengineer.org
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July 1, 2025
As the world grapples with the urgent need to transition toward sustainable food systems, an intriguing evolution is underway in agricultural practice and governance — the rise of metrics-driven farming. The proliferation of technology,...
Sharp Decline in Transnistrian Foreign Trade Amid Energy Disruptions
MoldovaLive
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July 1, 2025
Foreign trade in the Transnistrian region dropped by one-third during the first five months of 2025. Exports plunged by half, while imports, primarily energy resources, increasingly come from “unidentified” origins, reports the IPN correspondent...
Pusan National University Researchers Enhance CRISPR Off-Target Prediction Accuracy with New Genetic Variant Tool
Bioengineer.org
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July 1, 2025
In recent years, the revolutionary gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 has emerged as a powerful tool set to transform medicine, agriculture, and biological research. Despite its immense promise, one of the most persistent challenges facing...