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Company Suspected Of China Ties Sues Farmers Over Land Sale Around Air Force Base

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A company suspected of being linked to Communist China that bought over 50,000 acres of land near a California Air Force base is suing farmers, claiming they inflated the cost of the sale.

Flannery Associates has spent roughly $800 million on land around Travis Air Force base, northeast of San Francisco. The company is suing farmers for $510 million, accusing them of forming a “secret conspiracy to drive up prices to supracompetitive levels by eliminating free market competition” and violating

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Farmers Insurance schränkt die Versicherung neuer Hausbesitzer in Kalifornien ein

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Farmers Insurance hat in Kalifornien nur begrenzt neue Hausratversicherungen abgeschlossen und schließt sich anderen großen nationalen Versicherungsanbietern an.

Farmers, der zweitgrößte Anbieter von Hausratversicherungen im Bundesstaat, gab an, mit Wirkung zum 3. Juli die Anzahl der Policen in Kalifornien zu begrenzen. Das Unternehmen verwies auf hohe Kosten und das Risiko von Waldbränden.

„Angesichts der rekordverdächtigen Inflation, Unwetterereignissen und weiter steigenden Wiederaufbaukosten konzentrieren wir uns darauf, unsere Kunden zu bedienen und gleichzeitig unser Geschäft effektiv zu verwalten“,

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The Potemkin lobby shaping the EU’s agricultural policy – POLITICO

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BRUSSELS — The European Union’s biggest farming lobby claims to represent all the bloc’s agricultural workers, but Stela Zămoiu doesn’t believe it speaks for farmers like her.

Zămoiu, 61, remembers when the land around her was full of smallholders. Today, her three hectares in eastern Romania are surrounded by large, industrial farms. When she dies, she expects her property to be swallowed up by one of her neighbors.

“The village has grown old,” she says. “After the elders die, the

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Here’s How Small Farmers Across Africa Are Bringing Back Trees – Mother Jones

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A farmer in Niger tends to a tree sprout growing among his millet crop.Tony Rinaudo/World Vision Australia

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

For decades, there have been reports of the deforestation in Africa. And they are true—the continent’s forests are disappearing, lost mainly to expanding agriculture, logging, and charcoal-making. But the trees? Maybe not, according to new satellite data analyzed by artificial intelligence and

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Faces of farmers – EURACTIV.com

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Who are the faces behind our food? From young, regenerative farmers to those soon facing retirement, in this EURACTIV Special CAPitals edition of the Agrifood Brief, our network spoke to farmers on the ground across nine different member states.

What are their concerns for the agriculture sector, both now and in the future, in their country? What messages do they have for policymakers in Brussels? Read on to find out more.

FRANCE 

‘I might be out of business next year

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Jon Cryer scherzt über Farmers Market Date mit Ehefrau

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Lisa Joyner und Jon Cryer

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Ruft sich selbst heraus! Jon Schreier machte sich lustig darüber, mit seiner Frau Schlagzeilen zu machen, Lisa Joynerfür das Küssen auf einem Bauernmarkt am Wochenende.

„🚨AKTUELLE NACHRICHTEN 🚨. Meine Frau und ich gingen zum Farmers Market !!!” Die Zweieinhalb Männer Alaun, 57, scherzte via Twitter am Montag, 3. April, beim Teilen eines Artikels aus Tägliche Post das hatte Bilder vom Ausflug von ihm und seiner Frau am Wochenende.

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Western powers pressure China’s UN food boss to grip global hunger crisis – POLITICO

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ROME, Italy — The Chinese head of a crucial U.N. food agency has come under intense scrutiny by Western powers, who accuse him of failing to grip a global hunger crisis exacerbated by Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Qu Dongyu, director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, has alienated the Western powers that are the agency’s main backers with his technocratic leadership style and connections to Beijing that, in their view, have damaged its credibility and capability to mitigate the

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The Liz Truss Manifesto – POLITICO

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LONDON — Liz Truss has not published her plan for government, but this is the closest thing to it.

Over nearly eight long weeks of hustings, interviews, articles and debates, the two contenders for the Tory leadership have made their respective cases for why they should succeed Boris Johnson as U.K. prime minister. Among all the campaign jibes and blue-on-blue attacks have been scores of pledges and promises for how to deal with the urgent problems facing the country.

The

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