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The Global Food Crisis: Will Investments in Agricultural Technology be enough? | End Poverty in South Asia
Interesting post on accessibility and the global food crisis....
Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas
Very nice Peru page that has a search engine for looking up projects. This is a good example of government transparency and access to public information.
South American development plan could destroy the Amazon
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A plan to link South America's economies through a series of infrastructure projects, could destroy much of the Amazon rainforest, warns a study by conservationists.
Mexico Metadata Distribution Center
This goes out and searches different nodes. I did not find anything on roads, and have not tried anything else.
Canada Data Portal
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The GeoConnections Discovery Portal is your gateway to millions of geospatial data products. Browse metadata records or search by subject, coverage or product type to find, evaluate, visualize and access the geospatial data you need
To Fortify China, Soybean Harvest Grows in Brazil
This article outlines a lot of issues in global agriculture. You see how growing population and changing food demand are increasing the attractiveness of soybeans in Brazil. The ethanol boom in the USA affects soybeans in Brazil because less US farmers a
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“the longer-term trends are apparent. At the heart of the shift is the global competition for land to grow crops. Brazil, which farms about 175 million acres, has room to double its available cropland to equal the scale of the United States, analysts say, even without clearing any more of the Amazon rainforest.´
“All of a sudden you have a global market for land, a competition between several different products for the same amount of land,” said Sergio Barroso, president for the Brazil operations of Cargill, the biggest grain trader in the world. Brazil’s soybean industry is losing acres to sugar cane for ethanol production in some areas, he said, and is competing with corn, cotton and cattle.
“The strong Brazilian currency and a transportation bottleneck are conspiring against many Mato Grosso farmers. Most of the beans are trucked south more than a thousand miles along highways riddled with potholes. At the ports, some ships wait at anchor up to a month before finding a dock to load the beans.”
Forest Spatial Information Catalog
This is a spatial data catalogue for forestry from the Center for Internacional Forestry Research
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