During a roundtable discussion Clinton heard about the crop that feeds the local economy from tobacco farmers.
Thanks to high prices on the world market, sugar has also helped to boost the economy, despite the smallest crop in more than a century.
There is a weak U.S. dollar making commodities more expensive, Gross says, and there is rising globalization that is putting Starbucks stores around the globe, and depending on coffee beans from areas of the world where a droughts can upset an agricultural economy and affect an entire annual crop output.
With solid economic growth, small farmers can enter the legal economy, which will decimate the cocaine crop and sharply cut the FARC's income options.
In such an approach, alongside concerted crop eradication, and a continuing development of Afghanistan's economy, lies a distant glimmer of hope.
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The concern is that problems crop up if those investors look to exit and a weak economy has not created matching demand from owner-occupants.
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According to analyses performed by seed companies, in the absence of neonicotinoid seed treatment, crop yields in Europe could fall, with significant negative impacts on the EU economy and jobs.
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But the crop of Republicans that resulted began their term in 2011 not with job or debt or economy bills, but with anti-abortion bills.
California-based Seesmart LED, which makes light-emitting-diode light bulbs in China, represents a new crop of American companies that want to do what they can to support the U.S. economy.
The FAO's Abdolreza Abbassian argues that increasing links between farming and other parts of the economy are making it more difficult for farmers to calculate in advance the profitability of any one crop, so the area they plant is tending to fluctuate more sharply from year to year.
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