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Dominican Republic and Central America need to boost logistics coordination, studies show
2013-03-18 03:36:53| Trucking - Topix.net
PANAMA CITY, Panama -- To cope with the larger vessels that will transit through the Panama Canal when its expansion is complete in 2015, Central American countries must dramatically improve their intermodal road and port network infrastructure, the quality of their trucking services and strengthen their institutional coordination, two studies ... (more)
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South and Central America forge ahead with renewables
2013-02-06 13:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: Further to The Ecologist report on 13th January, which stated that Uruguay is planning to become the planet's greenest country, it seems that other countries in South and Central America are refusing to lag behind. A new report by energy experts GBI Research documents how other countries like Brazil, Mexico and Chile are ramping-up efforts to increase renewable energy production and government policy is driving this change. Brazil uses Feed-in-Tariffs (FITs) to support renewable development...
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Central America battles to save coffee from fungus
2013-01-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Central America is scrambling to contain a coffee-eating fungus that has invaded a third of the impoverished region's crops, threatening to cost the vital industry hundreds of millions of dollars. Entire families depend on work from the coffee-growing industry in Central America, which employs more than 1.5 million people to produce one of the world's most renowned Arabica beans. But in September, two months before the annual harvest, the fungus known as roya began to spread due to a lack of...
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Central America Food and Drink Report Q1 2013
2013-01-16 01:00:00| Beverage industry market research - from just-drinks.com
Business Monitor International's Central America Food and Drink Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, food and drink associations, government departments and regu
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