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Hard-Core Locavore: Eating on the World’s Most Remote Island
For those who dream of getting away from it all and living a simpler life of growing your own food, fishing for your nightly dinner, cooking with your neighbors, and living off the land, the Royal Institute of British Architects has a challenge for you. Welcome to the tiny volcanic islands of Tristan da Cunha, the most remote populated place on earth. Alone in the South Atlantic Ocean 1,750 miles
Modi bets on GM crops for India's second green revolution
Allowing GM crops is critical to Modi's goal of boosting dismal farm productivity in India (Repeats Feb 22 story with no changes in text) By Krishna N. Das and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI, Feb 22 (Reuters) - On a fenced plot not far from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home, a field of mustard is in full yellow bloom, representing his government's reversal of an effective ban on field trials o
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