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Islands of excellence

Experience unkindly teaches that there was nearly always a better way of doing things. The trick, of course, is to turn hindsight to foresight when planning future projects. This is what lies behind . . .

Luxury chocolate finds a new home

If you know where to go in downtown Quito, the capital of Ecuador, you might, for a brief moment, think you were in Belgium or Switzerland. Discover the shop that sells locally made chocolates . . .

Protecting pigs from pestilence

African Swine Fever is a serious disease that causes fever and bleeding, and ultimately death, in pigs. Very few pigs survive infection and those that do can be contagious. In recent . . .

'Kaving' a niche for Fiji

Kava, a traditional drink in several Pacific nations, not least Fiji, is to be further developed as an export, both as a drink and as a medicinal plant. Known locally in Fiji as Yaqona, the . . .

Farmer Field Schools in Bangladesh

The only thing that can match the intense green of the surrounding young rice plants is the intensity of concentration on the faces of farmers in the village of Dhupikula as they meet in the . . .

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