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Virgin Media's extended its broadband infrastructure to 50,000 homes in East London. Residents in areas including Bow, Stratford, Stepney, Poplar and East Ham can all now take advantage of the cable operator's TV, phone and superfast broadband services.
Online image hosting service Imgur has finally released an official app for mobile devices. The new app is available for UK users to download now on iOS, with an Android version set to arrive soon.
According to a new report by the technology and research firm, Gartner, Apple's overtaken Samsung as the world's largest mobile phone supplier. The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus helped Apple sell a staggering 74.8million smartphones during the final quarter of 2014.
Honor has unveiled a new mid-range smartphone at Mobile World Congress 2015 - the Honor 4X. The Chinese firm's known for releasing affordable handsets with impressive specs for the price, and the new handset looks like no exception.
According to the latest data from Google, an increasing number of smartphone users are upgrading to the latest version of Android - v5.0, or Lollipop as it's also known.
Period drama Indian Summer will return to Channel 4 for a second series in 2016. The popular show became the highest rated original drama on the channel for more than two decades after its premier attracted more than five million viewers last month.
Sony's launched a new mid-range smartphone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Called the Xperia M4 Aqua, the handset features a premium quality build with impressive specifications and is likely to retail for around £220 when it goes on sale in April.
The Superfast Cymru broadband project, which intends to extend fibre optic broadband connections to 96% of homes and businesses in Wales, has hit the halfway point this week. Approximately 346,000 Welsh premises can now access superfast internet.
Northern Ireland's Superfast Rollout Programme will extend speedy internet connections to thousands more homes later this year, following a new £17million investment in the country's broadband infrastructure.
The BBC will launch a new online app later this year, which will link with the broadcaster's digital services and provide users with personalised updates and alerts on favourite TV shows, the latest news and other useful information.
Microsoft has unveiled two new smartphones ahead of its official event at the 2015 Mobile World Congress. The mid-range Lumia 640 and 640 XL will be available in 3G and 4G variants when they go on sale in the UK.
EE yesterday demonstrated superfast 4G+ speeds at Wembley Stadium. It also promised to extend EE coverage to customers visiting the iconic venue from late March. Mobile users could eventually be able to access speeds up to three times faster than those currently available.
Samsung has finally unveiled its new flagship smartphone… or should we say smartphones? The Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge were announced yesterday, ahead of Mobile World Congress 2015.
HTC has revealed the latest version of its flagship phone - the HTC One M9. The handset's more of an evolution on the One M8, rather than anything revolutionary, but features numerous small improvements in specifications and features.
According to new research by the regulator Ofcom, nearly a third of broadband connections in the UK are now classed as superfast. The recent surge in take-up of cable and fibre services has also resulted in a record rise in speeds during the last nine months.
Motorola has launched an all new Moto E smartphone. The budget device will be 4G-capable and include a larger screen and a faster quad-core processor than last year's version. It's set to retail in the UK for £109.
Mobile broadband researchers have reportedly achieved 5G speeds of one terabit per second in tests, which is more than 65,000 times faster than the current 4G average of 15Mb. At that speed a feature film download would take just a fraction of a second.
Broadchurch and its stars, David Tennant and Olivia Colman, will be returning for a third series next year. The popular 'whodunit' drama completed its second series run with a dramatic episode on Sunday.
BT has now made superfast internet available to more than 1.5 million premises in Scotland, with engineers from Openreach, which looks after BT's network, laying 4,500km of cable - 30 times the length of the West Highland Way - and putting in 4,700 cabinets.
LG has unveiled four new mid-range smartphones. The Magna, Leon, Spirit and Joy handsets will, according to the Korean firm, 'bring optimised performance and effortless user experience to a broader range of consumers'.
Sony has unveiled a 4G-capable budget Xperia smartphone for the UK. The E4g is a minor variant of the recently announced E4 with the added bonus of 4G LTE connectivity for access to superfast mobile speeds. It will go on sale in April.
BT has revealed its line-up of exclusively live Barclays Premier League matches for April. Arsenal vs Liverpool, Swansea City vs Everton and Southampton vs Tottenham Hotspur will be shown on BT Sport during the penultimate month of the season.
Virgin Media has slashed the price of many of its superfast 'Big' broadband bundles. Customers can now access speeds up to 152Mb and hundreds of TV channels for just £33 a month during the first year of a contract.
Sky Sports subscribers can look forward to a feast of football in April with a staggering 16 Barclay's Premier League games set to air during next month.
The red BlackBerry Passport has finally gone on sale in the UK. This version of the phablet/smartphone device with its physical keyboard and touchscreen won't be available in the UK for long though as it is only getting a limited-edition run in this country.
YouTube is set to release a new app designed for children. The free app will make it safer for kids to search for, and watch, content on the service and provides a range of controls and restriction settings for parents.
Amazon has ordered five new original series for its Prime Instant Video service. The US adaptation of British drama Mad Dogs and The Man in The High Castle are among the shows, which subscribers will soon be able to stream.
Plusnet has apologised to customers that were incorrectly emailed about being charged extra for exceeding their broadband usage limit. The 'fault' affected a "small number" of subscribers on Tuesday when their accounts began adding gigabytes of unused data.
Sky's On Demand service had a record-breaking 2014, logging 50% more requests for streaming and downloading than the previous 12 months. According to the company, there were 60 requests for shows every second.
People with Sky Sports would have to pay an extra £10 a month - £120 a year - if satellite TV provider Sky passed on the full £4billion-plus cost of its new Barclays Premier League live rights deal to them, according to industry experts.
UK communications regulator Ofcom has approved the use of white space - the gaps between the radio spectrum bands used by digital television and wireless microphones used for TV programmes and special events - to boost wireless internet.
Amazon UK has secured the rights to the first season of Outlander. According to television and radio industry magazine Broadcast, the series, which has been likened to a Scottish Game of Thrones, is set to shown on Amazon Prime Instant Video.
Did you know that Titanic cost £144 million pounds to make? As you settle down to watch a mushy flick this Valentine's Day, impress your other half with these fascinating facts about the world's most-loved romantic movies.
Samsung may launch two new Galaxy S6 smartphones next month. The latest reports suggest the Korean manufacturer will reveal a second version of the flagship S6, with a curved display similar to the recent Galaxy Note Edge.
Freeview is hoping to take the fight to rivals Sky, Virgin Media and YouView, by introducing a newly rebranded service: Freeview Play. Enhancements include the ability to watch catch-up TV directly through the electronic programme guide.
Liberty Global and its subsidiary Virgin Media have announced a £3 billion investment to improve its UK's broadband network. This is the largest investment in the country's broadband coverage for more than a decade.
EE is planning to extend 4G coverage to 99% of the UK population by 2017. The network will invest £1.5 billion into its 4G and double-speed 4G+ service over the next three years to meet the latest target.
Rail passengers may soon be able to access BBC iPlayer and conduct business via the internet after the government announced plans to introduce a free Wi-Fi service on trains in England and Wales from 2017.
The UK is lagging behind many European countries when it comes to mobile internet speed. According to new data, the average download speed in the UK is 5Mb, which is meagre compared to Denmark's 22.3Mb, which is the fastest in Europe.
RootMetrics has crowned EE as the UK's best mobile network in a new report. EE topped the charts in all six of the categories in the latest performance test, including speed, text and call performance.
Sony has unveiled the new entry-level Xperia E4 smartphone. The successor to the Xperia E3 promises to "unlock entertainment and endless fun" for a modest price tag.
Honor will release a new smartphone in the UK later this month - and you'll decide what you pay for it. Kind of. The price those who pre-register to buy the Honor Holly pay will reportedly be determined in part by how many pre-registrations there are.
According to new government statistics, inner-city urban areas are among the worst in the country for broadband coverage. Central locations in London and Hull are still struggling to access superfast connections despite government projects to improve under-served areas.
The first ever Ubuntu phone will go on sale in the UK this week. The new device uses the operating system of the same name and features a "card-like user interface" rather than the traditional grid-based design seen in the majority of smartphones.
Channel 4's new £14million period drama Indian Summers starts this weekend. The 10-part series, which is set in 1930s India, stars Julie Walters and reportedly the most expensive drama ever commissioned by the channel, will air at 9pm on 15 February, 2015.
Almost two million more homes and businesses in the UK can now get superfast broadband due to the government programme aiming to make it available to 95% of the country by 2017, which is being overseen by Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK).
BT has made fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband available in Northern Ireland for the first time, providing download speeds of up to 330Mb - a record for the island of Ireland and over 17 time faster than the average actual UK broadband speed.
TalkTalk reported its "best ever results" for mobile, TV and fibre in the final three months of last year, with 50,000 people signing up to TalkTalk Mobile and 115,000 people signing up to TalkTalk TV - taking the total to 1.3 million - in that time.
New research shows that Apple iOS is growing in popularity in the UK, with its market share growing by 13.1% in the last 12 months. It's now hot on the heels of rival Android - currently the most popular operating system among UK users.
Amazon Prime Instant Video has announced it will stream the third season of the historical drama Vikings just 24-hours after it airs in the United States.
Sky will launch a new Now TV Box with "exciting new features" later this year. The provider broke the news about a next generation box for its streaming service in its latest quarter press release and early reports say it could finally allow viewers to stream content in full high definition.
Sony will include on-demand platform YouView in its new range of TVs. For the first time, Sony Bravia users will be able to use the simple and intuitive YouView interface to watch services such as BBC iPlayer and live TV without needing a separate set-top box.
The Open Championship will be shown live exclusively on Sky Sports from 2017. Sky secured the rights to the oldest golf tournament in the world after agreeing a five-year deal reportedly worth £75million with golf's governing body The R&A.
The UK's growing demand for superfast 4G services has prompted EE to scrap new connections for Orange and T-Mobile customers. The company stated it had decided to act now as 90% of customers are now opting for the UK's largest network.
Price research by broadbandchoices reveals that steadily increasing line rental charges in the UK have been masked by falling prices for broadband services. In 2009 the average monthly charge for landline rental was £11.14. Today that figure stands at £16.61 - an increase of 49%. That's way above the rate of inflation of 16.39% over the same period.
Have you recently switched to Freesat? A lot of people have - the subscription-free satellite TV provider gained 24,000 customers between October and December 2014. It gained 56,000 in total last year, meaning over 40% switched in those three months.
A new licensing measure by the government means that major mobile phone networks will have to reduce the number of voice and text 'dead zones' and extend coverage to 90% of the UK's landmass during the next three years.
Sky could be set to launch its next generation set-top box as early as this spring. The new box is likely to support ultra-high definition 4K content and feature other advanced technology, including 'multiscreen' viewing.
Sky Sports has announced it'll show seven more Barclays Premier League matches live in March, including Liverpool vs Manchester United, which kicks off at 1.30pm on 22 March, 2015, bringing the total of matches it'll show next month to eight.
Highlights of Barclays Premier League matches will continue to be shown on the BBC - including BBC iPlayer - with the broadcaster having agreed a £204million three-year deal that will see Match of the Day remain on screens until at least 2019.
BT is to trial "ultrafast" broadband technology in the summer. If all goes well, the rollout of the service could begin as soon as 2016/17. More than 4,000 homes and businesses in two pilot locations will be able to take advantage of speeds up to 500Mb during the trial.
Huawei will launch its new flagship Ascend P8 smartphone at a special event in London in April. The high-end device could feature a 5.2in full HD display and lots of other improvements.
Sky has teamed up with O2's current owner Telefonica to launch its own mobile network. The multi-year deal will make Sky the third 'quad-play' provider in the UK, rivalling BT and Virgin Media by offering broadband, mobile, TV and landline stakes.
Almost one in 10 people in the UK who use broadband aren't satisfied with it, says a new report from Ofcom, but overall satisfaction with broadband, home phone, TV and mobile phones is high, and more people are happy with them than a year ago.
Breaking Bad spin-off Better Call Saul will premiere on UK Netflix next month. Each episode of the new series will appear on the streaming service 24 hours after it is aired on the US channel AMC.
ITV will air highlights of every England game at the 2015 Cricket World Cup, pending final approval from Ofcom, according to a joint proposal submitted to the UK communications regulator by ITV and fellow broadcaster Sky, which will show live coverage.
According to research by Kantar Wordpanel, more than half a million people in the UK received a mobile device for Christmas, with the iPhone 5C the most popular present.
BT Sport will show live Barclays Premier League matches in mid-week and on a Sunday in March - Aston Villa vs West Bromwich Albion (3 March, 2015), Newcastle United vs Manchester United (4 March, 2015), and first Arsenal vs Everton (1 March, 2015).
Virgin Media's launched several new broadband deals, giving customers free Netflix for six months and substantial savings on its 'Big Bundles'. You'll have to be fast though, as the deals will only be available until the end of the month.
If you're currently using a Windows Lumia phone, there's a good chance you'll soon get Windows 10. Microsoft unveiled its new operating system last week and has confirmed that it wants the "majority" of Lumia devices to install it.
Images and specifications of a new mid-range smartphone from HTC have leaked. The images shared by @upleaks on Twitter suggest the HTC Desire 626 will be 4G and look like a cross between the recently unveiled HTC Desire 620 and 826.
One of the richest men in Asia is in the process of creating the biggest mobile phone network in the UK. Li Ka-shing, who has an estimated fortune of £25.5billion and owns the company that owns Three, is set to buy rival network O2 for more than £10billion.
Residents on a new Scottish housing estate have been told they will have to pay £30,000 to get superfast broadband after housing developers reportedly went back on their word to provide fibre connections in the area.
Children are now watching more video on demand content on paid for services, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, than ever before. The latest report by research firm Childwise Monitor shows a shift away from traditional terrestrial viewing to streaming on connected TVs and mobile devices.
BBC iPlayer logged a staggering 2.6 billion TV requests in 2014. Popular programmes, including Sherlock and Top Gear, helped the service to a record year - with mobiles and tablets increasingly becoming the way we watch.
Amazon's award winning comedy drama Transparent will be freely available to anyone who wishes to see it this weekend. From midnight on Saturday - for one day only - you won't need an Amazon Prime Instant Video account to stream the entire first series.
According to a new report published by consumer watchdog Which?, mobile customers are collectively wasting more than £5 billion a year on contracts not suited to their needs.
According to business secretary, Vince Cable, UK Netflix subscribers should be able to access the same content wherever they are in Europe. The Lib Dem MP has called for a "single online market" which would make "online prices fairer."
Vodafone is aiming to deliver 3G mobile signals to 40 more rural 'notspots' across the UK. The provider has shortlisted 100 areas that currently suffer from patchy coverage.
The second season of Black Sails will premiere on Amazon Prime Instant Video in the UK this weekend - less than 24 hours after being broadcast in the US for the first time. The US pirate drama will begin a 10-episode run on 25 January, 2015.
Sky will begin turning on adult content filters by default for all customers that have not decided whether they want to "opt" in or out. The provider said in a blog post that the filter changes would be made during the next few weeks.
The HTC One M9 will share its predecessor's metallic looks and dual camera setup according to a new leak by French website, Noweherelese, which also features several snaps of the hotly anticipated flagship device.
If you desperately want superfast broadband, you might need to make for the south of the country. That's the conclusion of a new report providing a breakdown of the areas with the highest and lowest percentage of postcodes with superfast connections in the UK.
A report on website Techmaniacs indicates that the LG G4 could be smaller, sharper and faster than its popular predecessor. The latest rumoured specifications for the Korean firm's flagship model suggest it will feature a 5.3-inch display and a Snapdragon 810 chipset.
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Plusnet has launched a new wireless router. The Plusnet Hub Zero, which will replace the Technicolor 582 router Plusnet currently provides with its broadband, is said to be faster, more energy efficient and easier to use than its predecessor.
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Carlton Rochell Asian Art, which opened in October 2002, has staged several important exhibitions since its inception.
The gallery specializes in sculpture, paintings and decorative arts from India, Tibet, Nepal, Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia prior to 1850. Holland Cotter of the New York Times in his review of the inaugural exhibition wrote "The arrival of a new, open-to-the public gallery devoted to Indian and Southeast Asian art is an event for the city; such showcases are few and far between…although Himalayan and Cambodian bronzes are among the most exquisite items, the gallery is dominated by several large-scale sculptures of a kind we rarely see outside museums."
Carlton Rochell spent the first eighteen years of his career at Sotheby's, where he founded the Indian and Southeast Asian Art Department in 1988. He handled important works of art from such well-known collections as Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller, Carter Burden, Alice Heerameck, William S. Paley, Mrs. James Alsdorf, Mr. and Mrs. Klaus Perls, and Earl Morse. Later, he became the Managing Director of China and Southeast Asia and Head of the Asian Departments worldwide, as well as a highly regarded auctioneer. Souren Melekian wrote "At Sotheby's, Carlton Rochell in New York raised his auctions of Indian art, now held during Asia week, to world eminence in the last two or three years."(International Herald Tribune, July 26, 1997)
Carlton Rochell Asian Art has handled important works of art from renowned collections including Mr. and Mrs. Jack Zimmerman, Dr. David R. Nalin, and Wesley and Carolyn Halpert. Mr. Rochell has sold to well-known institutions in the field as well as to distinguished private collectors.

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Very important article. I was born in Alagoas, close to this area and I know quite well the transformation that is happening in the North-East of Brazil by now. This country is amazing. Brazil is a superpower in richness, prosperity, natural resources, peace and liberty. Miguel - Campinas - Sao Paulo - Brazil.
Incredible piece of writing.It reflects why The Economist is the best magazine in the world.
This is why I will now read the briefings and ignore the leaders. A detailed report that is informative - very nice, E.
wonder what effect climate change will have, any shift in the hadley cells will have huge effects on percipitation and water will be key
@people worried about the environment
soil exhaustion is a concern. however, with the use of no-till and crop rotation, brazil will surpass problems in earlier American agricultural history such as the dust bowl. Allowing these root stalks to rot and be returned to the soil is also adding organic matter and nutrients to the soil, rather than full scale depletion of nutients. Also, with some of the early additions to the soil to make it usable for production, less fertilizer is needed as stated in the article. The alternate uses for forage land and animal production as well as trees in turn rows and in filter strips, runoff tendencies are reduced as these act as a filter for agricultural runoff. in crop rotation some fields ARE taken out of production, and are used to raise livestock. this can help regain forage land and also add nutrients to the land.
Brazil found an unpopulated, low income region and are starting to utilize it to benefit not only the region, but also the world. With growing populations across the globe, areas of increased production (due mostly to advances in seed variety) are needed to meet that future demand. The use of GM seeds are needed This has also turned Brazil around economically, and the fact that they needed no state backed subsidies to attain this level of production speaks volumes. Good for Brasil to find ways to use land once deemed unusuable.
Their short run model shows great success, as jslacy stated, however studies need to be done on the long run viability of the region. their farm makeup sounds very similar to the of the US, with few large farms creating most of the productivity, and many small hobby farms filling the gaps. We will see how long these yields are achieved without govt backed subsidies for crop disaster payments.
Here is the part where i satisfy all the left wing readers of the Economost and say, "Damn George Bush". i will have to say that on many accounts, the article could have nothing to do with our past president yet you feel a need to bring his name up. its like doing that bring validity to your argument. grow up. liberals want to show how great they are by pointing out the shortcommings of our past conservative administrations. i don't see our current administration spurring growth comparable to Brasil.
Yes - well written, but as usual with The Economist, one-sided; why don't they employ a decent environmentalist, or, God forbid, an ecological economist?
Here's the summary of a paper by CARLOS A. KLINK & RICARDO B. MACHADO,
Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade de Bras´ılia (UnB), Caixa Postal 04457 published in Conservation Biology, Pages 707–713 Volume 19, No. 3, June 2005:
"The Cerrado has the richest flora among the world's savannas (>7000 species) and high levels of endemism. Species richness of birds, fishes, reptiles, amphibians, and insects is equally high, whereas mammal diversity is relatively low.
"Deforestation rates have been higher in the Cerrado than in the Amazon rainforest, and conservation efforts have been modest: only 2.2% of its area is under legal protection. Numerous animal and plant species are threatened with extinction, and an estimated 20% of threatened and endemic species do not occur in protected areas.
"Soil erosion, the degradation of the diverse Cerrado vegetation formations, and the spread of exotic grasses are widespread and major threats. The use of fire for clearing land and to encourage newgrowth for pasture has also caused damage, even though the Cerrado is a fire-adapted ecosystem.
"Ecosystem experiments and modeling show that change in land cover is altering the hydrology and affecting carbon stocks and fluxes. Cerrado agriculture is lucrative, and agricultural expansion is expected to continue, requiring improvements in and extension of the transportation infrastructure, which will affect not only the Cerrado but also the Amazon forest.
"Large-scale landscape modification and threats to numerous species have led to renewed interest from various sectors in promoting the conservation of the Cerrado, particularly through strengthening and enlarging the system of protected areas and improving farming practices and thus the livelihoods of local communities."
Congratulations! Excellent article! It is amazing how companies like this can really change the scenario of poverty in the most remote places of the Country. Unfortunately, last Monday (August, 23) President Lula (probably influenced by Dilma Rousseff) made a move towards the opposite of the main idea enlightened in this article, it is seriously restricting foreign investments in agribusiness sector, benefiting some specific groups like Blairo Maggi and others.
So people are saying that those methods are irresponsible?
Those Embrapa technicians didn't anticipate problems with water and the environment?
Thank God for the many insights in "Andyvbl's" comment. Lost in the euphoria of agri-business/biotech boosterism are those nagging questions about soil and water--not the facile observation that nature blessed Brazil with an abundance of both, but the impact of heavy industrial agriculture on soil health and water quality.
As "Andy' pointed out, Brazil's absence of a northern style winter combined with vast expanses of monoculture crops makes for an insect paradise. No mention of the amount or toxicity of pesticides required to keep the rapidly mutating bugs at bay. Nor of the fact that in the US, we're already seeing the rise of "super weeds" as resistant to the herbicide Round-up(glyphosate)as the gm-soya itself,forcing farmers to apply increasing amounts of chemicals to combat soya's unwanted and rapidly-mutating competitors. Thus, the critical headwaters of Brazil's two major rivers become heavily freighted with toxic agricultural chemicals, with "externalized" consequences for river ecology and downstream users.
There's a strong current of irony flowing from the fact that most of Brazil's "low-value" soya crop ends up feeding cattle and poultry in China, where wanton oversue of fertilizer and pesticides has already wreaked havoc on that's country's waterways, destroying fresh water fisheries and proliferating "cancer villages." And where failure to protect and preserve valuable farm land from unsustainable practices and urban development threatens to place enormous pressure on the world's granneries.
Given that the "miracle" in the cerrado is actually a profound and precarious experiment, I'd caution the technophiles to rein in their triumphalism a bit, lest, like our former president, a premature declaration of "Mission Accomplished" leaves much egg on the face. And far worse, points policy makers down a road to disaster.
Great article! "lr9" shows interesting facts especially where their increased production actually came from with total factor productivity, not just their ability to create arable land. Greater efficiencies in seed type that allow for these crops to grow in their climate is probably mostly to blame for increaed yields. Also, it shows that they are becoming more streamlined in the whole agricultural process from farm to market. Perhaps they should shift their focus on making their processes more sustainable for the long run as we see their model is obviously working in the short run.
Yesterday Dilma, our future PresidenTa was in Rondonópolis to give support to Blairo Maggi, a "Modern Bandeirante" of the Brazilian frontier and our future Senator. The Brazilian Lebensraum will feed the world and our manifest destiny in our own lands will be accomplished ! It's our time !
In the 1960s, soil scientists at North Carolina State University realized that their state's ancient red clays soils were not much different from many Brazilian soils, and that farming techniques being developed for their own state might be relevant elsewhere.
Please do Brazilians a favor and go tell Lula how productive the Brazilian "bourgois" farmers are. That's his description of anyone who does not vote for him or has something that was not acquired through the official bureaucracy or direct theft.
The only thing his government does towards "helping" them is to incentivate land grabbing by rouble-rousers, the "Sem-Terra" whose great majority do nothing but destroy productive structures and lay waste the land which they will later sell or rent.
A great article that should make every human being happy.
A major country is doubtless doing a lot of things right to arrive at the staggering figures presented.
Food production will always be of paramount importance to any self-respecting nation.
It should go without saying but no reminder seems ever enough that each one of us needs to, simply put, eat from cradle to grave.
Brazil - having a relatively large population and to its shame still facing albeit dwindling pockets of undernourished people - is now able to feed millions elsewhere through its booming exports.
The country has become an accomplished agricultural powerhouse with vast potential to raise volumes higher in the decades ahead.
Alas, an outstanding success story of fields turned green delivering ever higher yields.
Yes the territory is vast, arable land could hold many countries put together.
The point is that large-scale commercial farming is thriving making the best of the lands with strong scientific and technological inputs.
Ultimately the objective is to fill man's most perennial basic need.
If only large parts of Africa could follow in Brazil's footsteps.
Congratulations to the writer of this piece.
Great article.
I was the World Bank Country Director in Brazil from 2005 to 2008 and saw this "miracle" at first hand. I have five comments.
First, a study of sources of production increases by eminent Brazilian economist Delfin Netto showed that over 90% of increase in output of Brazilian agriculture over the last 30 years has been due to total factor productivity and less than 10% from increased use of land, labour and capital.
Second, whereas Brazil maintained a consistent level of public investment in agricultural research for over 30 years, official development assistance (from the World Bank and others) for agriculture plummeted from 20% of all lending to less than 5%. Brazil was lucky (and smart) to go alone on this.
Third, a $20 million "mutlistakeholder" study of tropical agriculture (the IASSTP) recently endorsed the Prince Charles model -- small is beautiful and organic only -- and pilloried the Brazilian model. As the World Bank's Country Director in Brazil at the time it was my challenging task to explain to an incredulous Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture how the donor community (the World Bank hosted the secretariat) could produce such nonsense.
Fourth, the logistics of grain transportation in Brazil is crazy, both economically and environmentally. They have two of the biggest rivers in the world (the Amazon and the Parana) which adjoin a good part of the main agricultural area. But there is very little transport by river -- about 15% of grain is transported by water in Brazil, versus about 60% in the US.
Fifth. Brazil knows that small farmers cannot manage the challenges of credit, technology and marketing. In the northeast the new generation of irrigation projects is experimenting with a model of reverse concessions, with the primary weight in the bidding process going to ways in which the "anchor enterprise" incorporates small farmers in the productive chain in about 30% of the area being concessioned. This is another creative way Brazilian agriculture is attempting to charter new territory.
As already mentioned on other comments, this arcticle is very good.
However, I`m concerned that it only focused the economical aspects of the development of modern agriculture throughout the Cerrado.
The Cerrado - Brazilian Savanah - is the second largest area of Biodiversity in Brazil. Second only to the Amazon. Hence, large areas are being destroyed in order to produce commodities.
Moreover, I point out to the fact that this agriculture is conducted in a tropical country, where there are no low temperatures, which would prevent the development of the crops during winter and allow the soil to "rest".
Thus, as mentioned on the arcticle, there are two crops. So, the soil is being used over its capacity. Due to this aspect, Brazil has the highest rate of soil destruction (erosion) in the world because it is not using in a sustainable way.
Furthermore, the Cerrado is where the rivers that feeds the Amazon and also de Platina Region - Rivers Paraguai, Paraná and Uruguay - are born. It is an area that disperses water through the Amazon Basin and the south of Brazil, giving life to the north and the South of Brazil and also Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentine.
The way this modern agriculture was structurated in the Cerrado is no way near being sustainable. The soil of the Cerrado is very delicate and without proper technics, such as mixed crops - not only soybeans and cotton - , alowing productive areas to rest, et al, there will be major loss of usable soil for agriculture and impacts on the flow of water to the Amazon and Platina Basin.
The consequences of the unsustainable use of the Cerrado are impossible to predict, but logic suggests that it would affect major areas of the continent.
Half a century ago the Austrian writer Stephan Zweig wrote a book with the title "Brazil, country of future". Now, indeed, we are coming to it. Zweig committed suicide in Petropolis, Brazil. Even many Brazilians were critical of the book title. Fortunately he was right. Congratulations to The Economist for its excelent articles.
An outstanding article.
Nevertheless, as I read through it, I kept wishing that there had been some discussion of the environmental impact of taking what was virgin disused land and converting it to hard industrial agriculture, with its monocultures and soil additives and fertilizers and herds of cattle.
While the "no-till" method must aid in decreasing run-off, I can only imagine so many hectares in use and so many heads of cattle must be having a signficant impact on the environment that has yet to be measured.
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A few days ago, a Master of Arts, who is still a young man, and therefore the recipient of a modern education, stated to me that until he had reached the age of twenty he had never been taught anything whatever regarding natural phenomena, or natural law. Twelve years of his life previously had been spent exclusively amongst the ancients. The case, I regret to say, is typical. Now we cannot, without prejudice to humanity, separate the present from the past.
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker then that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.
As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.
Beware of the young Doctor, & the old Barber.
Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.
I am always surprised when a young man tells me he wants to work at cosmology. I think of cosmology as something that happens to one, not something one can choose.
I had a Meccano set with which I played endlessly. Meccano which was invented by Frank Hornby around 1900, is called Erector Set in the US. New toys (mainly Lego) have led to the extinction of Meccano and this has been a major disaster as far as the education of our young engineers and scientists is concerned. Lego is a technically trivial plaything and kids love it partly because it is so simple and partly because it is seductively coloured. However it is only a toy, whereas Meccano is a real engineering kit and it teaches one skill which I consider to be the most important that anyone can acquire: This is the sensitive touch needed to thread a nut on a bolt and tighten them with a screwdriver and spanner just enough that they stay locked, but not so tightly that the thread is stripped or they cannot be unscrewed. On those occasions (usually during a party at your house) when the handbasin tap is closed so tightly that you cannot turn it back on, you know the last person to use the washroom never had a Meccano set.
If the question were, What ought to be the next objective in science? my answer would be the teaching of science to the young, so that when the whole population grew up there would be a far more general background of common sense, based on a knowledge of the real meaning of the scientific method of discovering truth.
Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.
Should a young scientist working with me come to me after two years of such work and ask me what to do next, I would advise him to get out of science. After two years of work, if a man does not know what to do next, he will never make a real scientist.
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.
There is a story that once, not long after he came to Berlin, Planck forgot which room had been assigned to him for a lecture and stopped at the entrance office of the university to find out. Please tell me, he asked the elderly man in charge, 'In which room does Professor Planck lecture today?' The old man patted him on the shoulder 'Don't go there, young fellow,' he said 'You are much too young to understand the lectures of our learned Professor Planck'.
Theres a lot of scientific data that I found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I believe that the Earth is about 9,000 years old. I believe that it was created in six days as we know them. Thats what the Bible says. And what Ive come to learn is that its the manufacturers handbook, is what I call it. It ... teaches us how to run all our public policy.
[Demonstrating the uncompromising substitution of his religious ideology for centuries of scientific facts while he is responsible for setting important public policy on matters of science.]
[Demonstrating the uncompromising substitution of his religious ideology for centuries of scientific facts while he is responsible for setting important public policy on matters of science.]
Throughout his career, [Richard] Drew tried to create an environment where people were encouraged to follow their instincts. He was known at 3M as a consummate mentor, encouraging and helping to train many of the companys young scientists, who went on to develop successful products of their own, paving the way for 3Ms culture of innovation.
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Using any reasonable definition of a scientist, we can say that 80 to 90 percent of all the scientists that have ever lived are alive now. Alternatively, any young scientist, starting now and looking back at the end of his career upon a normal life span, will find that 80 to 90 percent of all scientific work achieved by the end of the period will have taken place before his very eyes, and that only 10 to 20 percent will antedate his experience.
We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated by further exploration will inspire our young people to study math, and science, and engineering and create a new generation of innovators and pioneers.
We ought to observe that practice which is the hardest of allespecially for young physicianswe ought to throw in no medicine at allto abstainto observe a wise and masterly inactivity.
We should misjudge this scientist [Fritz Haber] seriously if we were to judge him only by his harvest. The stimulation of research and the advancement of younger scholars become ever more important to him than his own achievements.
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardised citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.


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Renault became only the second engine manufacturer to reach a double century of pole positions thanks to Mark Webber's stunning lap on Saturday in Korea.
Ferrari are the only other engine supplier to have exceeded 200 pole positions.
Managing director of Renault Sport F1, Jean-François Caubet, hailed the milestone and thanked all 22 drivers who have contributed.
"Reaching 200 poles is a milestone in our F1 history," said the Frenchman. "Looking back on our involvement in the sport, in the first years of the turbo I don't think anyone would have thought we could reach this figure!
"Over time, the team in Viry has worked to develop each of the different engines produced, from V6 to V10, to make each as quick and reliable as they can.
"We are proud of our achievement and would like to thank all our partners and Renault-engined drivers who have contributed to this achievement."
Among those 22 drivers, eight world champions have taken pole using a Renault engine and six of those took their first ever pole thanks to Renault power including Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost.
Renault poles by driver:
Vettel: 33, Prost: 23, Hill: 20, Mansell: 18, Senna: 18, Alonso: 16, Arnoux: 14, Villeneuve: 13, Webber: 11, Jabouille: 6, Patrese: 6, Coulthard: 5, Schumacher: 4, De Angelis: 3, Trulli: 2, Fisichella: 2, Tambay: 1, Boutsen: 1, Frentzen: 1, Berger: 1, Alesi: 1, Maldonado: 1.
Renault poles by engine:
1.5 V6 Turbo (1977 – 1986): 50
3.0 V10 (1995-97 and 2001-2005): 53
Renault poles by team:
Williams: 80
Red Bull: 44
Renault (France): 31
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"We can get four or five at one time, or go days without having anything. Generally in the summer time we average a few a week, at least," said Captain Jonathan Burton of Federal Point Water Rescue Team.
The team will usually assist lifeguards or the Coast Guard in rescues, or searches for those in distress. The fire department also has its own dive team, but for this patrol, it's just a team of two.
The water rescue team will typically spend the day up and down the coast, patrolling in case a call comes in where they'll need to spring into action. The truth is the water rescue team has to contend with much more on the water than fighting a fire. "They can range from a jellyfish sting to a vessel capsize, sinking or a drowning call," Burton said.
More than 20 volunteer firefighters work on the water rescue team. Each member spends months, and even years, in training to just volunteer their time to help those in need. Burton said, "I guess you could call it waiting on an accident to happen, but our main goal is to prevent that accident from happening by community awareness."
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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011I haven't posted for several months. Now that it is Spring, I'm doing what many other Airstreamers are doing – getting ready to travel. In a couple of weeks, I'll be taking my 1986 Excella to Fort Collins, CO, to put on a new set of Dexter axles. Luke Bernander does a side business there doing maintenance and even restoration on Airstreams.
The rubber torsion in the old Henchen axles have lost their suspension ability, that is, they no longer insulate the chassis and shell (and interior) from road shocks transmitted from the wheels. I know this because I tested the vertical travel of each spindle and found there was only about 2″ of movement. Also, I noticed increasing stress on rivets, especially over the door. Either there was black residue around the rivet heads (aluminum oxide caused by movement of the rivet against the skin), or the heads themselves were popping off. On the inside, there was not only a lot of rivet maintenance, but one ceiling cabinet in particular (the one over the stove) required additional support.
I replaced the single axle on my 1966 Globe Trotter back in 2002 for the same reasons. I was able to do that job myself, but then I had a house and some room to work. Now I don't. The Excella is also much larger and is going to require some heavier duty jacks and stands to get it up in the air. Luke has all that. I'll participate in doing as much of the labor as I can, but I'm glad that I don't have to do it all by myself.
I probably should have had the factory do all this last year when we were at Alumapalooza, but would'a, should'a, could'a doesn't count for anything. It's is 75 miles to Fort Collins, and about 1,100 miles to the factory. Since the factory charges more anyway, the economics makes it an easy decision.
Changing axles is intimidating, but really isn't that complex. If you decide to DIY, double check, even triple check your measurements. The axles have to fit to within an eighth of an inch on both ends. The mounting plates have some flexibility, but the welds do not.
Also, don't attempt it if you do not have the proper equipment and a stable and level work area with sufficient space to maneuver. Having even a small Airstream come off its supports while you're under it would most likely result in death or serious injury (not to mention that it would be hard on the trailer too).
I'll post the results next month!


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(Monticello) — Sullivan County Manager David Fanslau has released a list of Solid Waste Fee "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)" and answers. The FAQ sheet addresses the most common questions received from public inquiries in the County Manager's Office.
Fanslau said, "The County is aware that there has been confusion surrounding the new Solid Waste Fee. As we take the necessary steps to improve and perfect the new system, we must do everything in our power to clarify the existing fee to Sullivan County property owners. I would like our residents to know that we are doing everything in our power to be as transparent and responsive as possible in working through the implementation of the Solid Waste fee."
If the Solid Waste Fee were not implemented, the County would have had to raise an additional $5.7 million through the property tax levy to pay for outstanding debt service associated with the Solid Waste System and the post-closure care costs of the closed landfill. That would have resulted in an additional 12.5% increase to the County"s property tax levy in 2010 or 18.3% total, as opposed to the Solid Waste Fee of $84.95 for residential properties and $300 for non-residential properties.
Sullivan County has transformed the Solid Waste System into an exportation system, after the County landfill reached capacity in December 2009. There remains a nearly $36 million outstanding debt associated with the landfill and solid waste system that requires an annual $4.5 million payment through 2022, as well as, a $1.2 million post-closure care costs of the landfill for at least a thirty year period. The Solid Waste Fee was developed to pay for these costs and prevent their subsidy from the property tax levy.
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Most parents understand the importance of early learning and teach their kids basic knowledge such as letters, vocabulary and counting. Some parents start in the womb by playing tape recordings and they tape flash cards to the mobile hanging over the crib. Will such early learning really provide our children with a better life if they live in a culture of hate and violence?
Author: Eliane Leao, PhD
Cooperation versus Competition
After babies turn a year old, they are ready to use their native language and exercise their mind more as they enter a fresh developmental phase. The second year of a baby´s life will be a period filled with great challenges. Language, ego and self-confidence will be developed while trying to adjust to the external world. Babies perceive who is unknown in their environment and are able recognize new and different faces. Fears, anxieties, and habits begin to surface, and the first personality traits are visible. Baby's individual personality traits become more apparent as they interact with their parents, pets and other family members. During this time period parents have the great opportunity to provide a learning environment for their babies who absorb information like a sponge.
Babies have their own developmental rhythm, and go through the same phases and/or levels of development and utilize their potential on their own timetable. Some develop at a fast pace, others at a slower one. As a parent, you may wonder: "Why bother educating my baby?" "Won't they learn everything they need to know through social interaction or in school?"
When Darwin presented us with the theory of the evolution of the species, we learned that human beings are a competitive species and that we adapt biologically to diverse environments, through diverse ways, in order to survive. We also learned that competition was a survival resource useful in a society for its progress and also for the permanence of the being in it.
Today, the challenge is on a different scale. In the 21st century, with the computer science age at full steam, environmental imbalance threatening the earth, thousands of children facing death every day by starvation, countless epidemics that shorten the lives of human beings, it is urgent that the posture of preparing our children for competition and power be replaced by one of preparing them for love and cooperation. We must prepare them to help. An exclamation urges: – cooperation YES, competition, NO!
There is a unique home common to all of us: – planet earth. It is possible to find people just like us in distinct points along the face of the earth, which in turn belongs to all of us.
Some parenting tips to teach your children peace, love and understanding:
- Donate – Give your kids cash to put in the salvation army bucket or let them bring some from their piggy bank before you go shopping.
- Volunteer- Take your kids with you to the soup kitchen or domestic violence shelter from an early age.
- Be intolerant of intolerance – Do not allow hate talk in your home – ever. Don't just tolerate different cultures, genders, religions and skin colors – Celebrate them.
- Foster a love of animals – Have family pets, dogsit or volunteer at your local no-kill shelter. Go vegetarian/vegan if you dare.
- Be vocal and adamant about opposing war and other human rights violations- Bring your kids to anti-war rallies or have them help you write letters to politicians online.
- Maintain a green home – Always explain the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling. Plant trees – Eat from your organic garden.
This cooperation will act so that people can maintain life on earth and maintain their internal uniqueness from the affirmation: – I´m unique, but I´m not potent without the others. We must educate our children so that they want to preserve nature, thus being possible to simultaneously preserve the I, the personal. The opposite is not true. It is not only through the power of the I that the power of another will exist, in this planet. The power comes from the strength of all, which in turn will give strength for the survival of the I.
This equilibrium of life on earth will lead to the exercise of loyalty with all forms of life, in an exercise of respect for life itself. It will lead to the exercise of human loyalty preserving what is human. This is the grand revolution that humanity aspires to achieve.
Our children don´t need to learn that they have to prepare for wars anymore. To present-day intelligence, and to our thinking children, war is a total waste of efforts and of life. Our children have to learn that we don´t need to practice actions that benefit only our homeland, while all other countries are destroyed. The destruction of other spaces and lives leads to the impossibility of a future for this place we call home. It imbalances the eco-system, twists the relations of respect, and shades the hope of a better future. If we don´t diminish the differences among men, and violence as a whole, we will not have peace in our own little corners, our homes. The anxiety of the whole reflects the anxiety of each individual.
We must teach our children that the main necessity of men, women and children is love. Without it, we are empty. Not passing it forward we don´t cooperate, in fact we destroy the one thing we have that is good about ourselves, others and nature. And we will stumble upon the greatest challenge, that consists of de-constructing the truth reflected on everyone´s eyes: it´s getting harder and harder to love, to show love, and to donate something good to another.
We are not capable of demonstrating hate to a flower, grabbing it and throwing it at the floor and stepping on it. It sounds insane. But we are insensitive to the extent that we are able to pass a homeless person thrown there on the ground, and we are incapable of understanding or trying to help. We just walk on by and pretend it´s not our problem! Human abandon is not a problem anymore! Our exaggerated competition has led us to total insensitivity!
We need to discuss and practice love, with the commitment of leaving aside the economical, cultural, racial and ideological differences. We need to teach our children that it is necessary to rescue humanity´s dignity so that the existence on this planet be worthwhile. We need to start with every newborn and child. We seek a new model of man. Is your baby a candidate? A lot will depend on you!!!
Sheryl's comment:
As with most early learning, kids learn by example. If daddy is making misogynistic jokes or leering at women behind mom's back, little boys will learn to be lecherous cheats who don't respect women. If mommy refuses to go to an African American doctor, then little girls will learn racism from an early age.
If daddy beats the crap out of mommy and she doesn't leave, then boys will learn to beat their wives and girls will learn to put up with it. If parents allow toy guns, violent video games, animal cruelty and disturbing adult movies in the home, then you can bet their children will grow up with a violent mentality. It really is up to us, the parents, to help our children create a loving, peaceful world that they can live in long after we are gone.
About the Author:
Dr. Eliane Leao is a native of Brazil, South America. She has a background in Education from Purdue University (Masters) and a PhD in the Department of Educational Psychology from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)/Purdue University (Ph.D.). Dr. Leao is currently a professor of Music Education and Music Therapy conducting research on the influence of Music in Early Childhood Learning.
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Posted By: ElenaDate: Monday, 1 February 1999, at 4:06 p.m.
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Elena (a B who can't benefit from pumpkin seeds OR sunflower seeds OR pistachios... sigh... on ER4YT, Bs have to count their losses alongside their blessings just like everybody else!)