Developments
Vietnamese goat's cheese - an award-winning production
In Vietnam, milk drinking is mostly associated with infancy - by tradition it is not a food for grown ups. But over the last decade, rapid economic growth and increasing numbers of tourists have boosted the demand for milk, and imports have had to rise by more than twenty-fold to meet the need. The government, not surprisingly, has been keen to cut the...
When the world turns upside down
The people of Georgia, a beautiful but conflict-ravaged country in the Caucasus region of eastern Europe, are continuing to suffer as new strands of tension are twisted into the country's complex history. Georgia has been trying, so far unsuccessfully, to find a destiny of her own after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the uncomfortable...
Digging deep - the people of a small community in Zimbabwe have pulled together and are digging their own well. These people are poor and the village is not big but they have realised that by working together they can pool their efforts and work to improve water availability so that they can grow and market their own vegetables. Through a process...
Vietnam coffee industry - learning from the past!
Vietnam is blamed for flooding the world market with low quality Robusta coffee, fuelling overproduction and being responsible for plummeting prices on the international coffee markets. And, unfortunately, the present world wide overproduction of around 800,000 tons matches well with the production of...
