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Feeding Asia while taking care of earth

Our Correspondent
May 01, 2012
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The major story out of Bangkok in 2010 was extreme weather in the form of torrential monsoons that sent the Chao Phraya River on a rampage that left US$40 billion of flood damage in its wake. Extreme weather events were also a big story of 2010, but at the other end of the spectrum: a record drought that desiccated millions of dollars worth of crops.

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