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Discover Asia The Ins and Outs of an Up and Coming Land Economic "dragons" and newly liberalized economies. Age-old traditions and cutting-edge modernity. Contrasts abound in the Asia of today, a land assuming increasing importance on the world stage. Discover where Asia is today, and where it's going. Growing Food in a Dry Land DC050008
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Mongolia suffers from serious food shortages. At a school on the outskirts of the country's capital, Ulan Bator, a farm was established in spring, 1999. Teachers, students and parents transformed a one-hectare former garbage dump into the school farm. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization offered aid to the value of approximately US $10,000. The crops harvested on the farm are given to poor families and sold at the market. The profit from these sales is used to buy teaching materials for the school. This program demonstrates how the Mongolian people are responding to a new form of food aid. |
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