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Big Chinese banana farms: Water grab & pesticide issues
Jon Fernquest, Published on 21/04/2016
» Taking water from local farmers in Chiang Rai now issue, as big Chinese banana farmers banned from Laos for heavy pesticide use move to Thailand.
Editor’s note
Published on 19/04/2016
» By the time this note is published, Songkran will have just finished, but since we work ahead on the magazine, as I write this the Songkran holiday has yet to happen. And right now I'm looking forward to the prospect of being soaked in ice-cold water as I walk down the street.
intense
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 05/04/2012
» very great or extreme; very strong แรง, แรงจัด, ถึงขีดสุด, , เข้มข้น
drought
Published on 28/03/2012
» a long period of time when there is little or no rain ความแห้งแล้ง
Essential land reform vocabulary 1
Jon Fernquest, Published on 05/10/2010
» The goal of land reform policy is to give poor farmers land but the real challenge is a policy to prevent farmers from losing this land during bad years.
Agricultural price supports
Jon Fernquest, Published on 22/09/2010
» The Abhisit administration has put in place a true system of crop insurance and agricultural price supports. Payments to farmers used to be used as a system of "political booty" to gain voter support in elections.
Climate change negotiator
Outlook, Piyaporn Wongruang, Published on 30/06/2010
» After long hours in a closed meeting room at climate change negotiations in Bonn earlier this month, Dr Surachai Sathikunarat, a young Thai climate change negotiator, should have had peaceful coffee breaks.
Water, water everywhere
Learningpost, Published on 03/06/2010
» Most of our planet is covered in water. However, we can only drink 2.5 percent of it. Some educational commentators suggest that this could be a metaphor for our education budget from the government.
Water, water everywhere
Learningpost, Steve Graham, Published on 01/06/2010
» Most of our planet is covered in water. However, we can only drink 2.5 percent of it. Some educational commentators suggest that this could be a metaphor for our education budget from the government.