- Making sustainable policies sustainable: a review of China's Grain to Green Program (GTGP).Scientists at Michigan State University and in China are examining China's the GTGP with the aim of developing a targeted approach for environmental and social sciences to get a full picture of how the programme is working. The GTGP was launched in 2000 to persuade farmers to return cropland to forest through financial incentive. Read more...
- The former Russian Agriculture minister has been named as witness in a $16 million fraud case. Yelena Skrynnik served as agriculture minister between March 2009 and May 2012 but it is her position of head of farm-equipment-leasing firm Rosagrolizing between 2001 and 2009 that is involved in the criminal case. State television aired an expose about a fraud scheme at Rosagrolizing reportedly cost the company more than $1.2 billion. According to investigators, three senior officials at three agricultural firms defrauded the state of 500 million rubles ($16.1 million) between 2007 and 2009 by issuing fake contracts. Skrynnik has called the televised accusations libel. Read more...
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