Agriculture dependent on migrant workers
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MISSION, Texas  - Driving through the Lower Rio Grande Valley in southern Texas, it is clear that whatever labor is being done on a farm -- be it driving a tractor or weeding a field -- Latinos are doing it.
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The west is stripping the developing world of its talent. The pressures of ageing populations and the need to be at the frontier of technological change has meant skilled labour is in short supply, so raiding
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Darkening skies and a light morning drizzle blanketed the fields while combines harvested corn and tractor-trailers hauled away this year's crop. Even though he knew what was coming, Brian Watkins hopped out of his pickup truck and stepped into his office to check the weather forecast on his computer.
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Some small farms, faced with stagnant income and mounting expenses, are opening up their operations to nonagricultural activities just to survive.
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IMMOKALEE, Florida  - A coalition of migrant farmworkers is taking its fight against wages that leave U.S. tomato pickers in deep poverty to the home of McDonald's Corp., the world's largest restaurant company.
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China paid back 32.2 billion yuan (US$3.9 billion) owed to migrant rural workers from rural areas as of December 3, accounting for 95.88 percent of the total owed, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security said in Beijing December 17.
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Across Latin America, supermarket chains have brought unanticipated and daunting challenges to millions of struggling, small farmers.
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DAVOS, Jan 27 (IPS) - Ministers from India, Brazil and South Africa  warned at the Davos World Economic Forum Saturday that the  success of Doha trade negotiations over the next couple of months  will depend on "balanced" commitments between agriculture  and opening of markets for industrial products.
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The World Bank's latest World Development Report places renewed emphasis on agriculture.
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OBLIGADO, Paraguay  - Few towns in Paraguay's impoverished countryside have a stoplight, well-paved roads or a library. This remote farming community has all three, and residents cite one reason: soybeans.
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GuardianFilms:  The illegal immigrant has become the whipping boy of the  Republican Party.  But, in California with the GuardianFilms team, the Observer's Paul Harris finds that the crackdown on cheap, immigrant labour is hurting food production
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Europeâs farmers are beginning to grow crops that can be turned into fuels meant to produce fewer emissions than gas or oil.
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Arizona farmers cite tighter border security and limits on guest workers. They're paying field hands $2 more per hour.
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Chinese migrant workers are told they must declare their political views when registering for permits.
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GUANLI, China  - It is peak harvest season in this village in northern China, and apples are piled high on both sides of the road, clogging the traffic of tractors, trucks and carts bringing in the crop from all around.
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Britain, the Netherlands and Spain plan restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania once the two states join the European Union Jan.Comment
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LISBON, Oct 6 (IPS) - The contributions of young immigrants from the  developing South hold out a solution for pension systems in the  European Union, where rapid population ageing is placing heavy  pressure on social security.