Agriculture
Hong Kong Keeps Ban on Some Poultry Imports Due to Avian Flu Tie
Poultry imports from the part of southern China where a man died from the H5N1 virus remain banned in Hong Kong after genetic tests linked the man’s strain of the disease the version found in wild birds in the city.
Crops out of concrete: Farming Hong Kong's urban islandBenjamin Gottlieb CNN 06/29/2011 | 3,000 German farms re-open after scare: authorities Breitbart.com 01/10/2011 |
 On the roof of a 21-story office building in Hong Kong's eastern district sits a grassy patch of hope that agriculture can thrive even in one of the world's most congested spaces. |  About 3,000 German farms have been given the green light to re-open, out of a total 4,700 that were closed due to a toxic feed scare, a regional agriculture ministry said Sunday. |
World Food Prices Jump to Record on Sugar, OilseedsRudy Ruitenberg Bloomberg.com 01/06/2011 | Global food crisis forecast as prices reach record highsJohn Vidal The Guardian 10/26/2010 |
 World food prices rose to a record in December on higher sugar, grain and oilseed costs, the United Nations said, exceeding levels reached in 2008 that sparked deadly riots from Haiti to Egypt. |  Rising food prices and shortages could cause instability in many countries as the cost of staple foods and vegetables reached their highest levels in two years, with scientists predicting further widespread droughts and floods. |
Why we need to preserve Hong Kong's fishing industryVeronica Zaragovia CNNGo.com 06/08/2010 | Hillary Clinton unveils US food security initiative AFP 09/26/2009 |
 CNNGo reader Veronica Zaragovia interviews Margaret Xu Yuan from Yin Yang private kitchen on the importance of Hong Kong's fishermen |  NEW YORK — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton unveiled Friday a food security initiative launched by the Obama administration to combat hunger worldwide. |
Hong Kong water `facing chemical run-off' threatTimothy Chui The Standard 03/23/2009 | China Uses Planes as Rainmakers in Drought AreasWinnie Zhu Bloomberg.com 02/09/2009 |
 Hong Kong needs to wake up to where it is getting its water from and take measures to protect it, according to Friends of the Earth. |  China, the world’s biggest grain producer, is using its air force to try to make rain in rural areas struck by the nation’s worst drought in five decades. |
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