Tag: meat and dairy products

• Wednesday, February 16th 2011 - 17:17 UTC

  Uruguayan goods exports mainly commodities; only 2% with high tech input

  

  An overwhelming volume of Uruguayan exports of goods in 2010, --84%-- were commodities and natural resources with some degree of manufacturing but low technological input according to the latest report from the Chamber of Industries.

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 22:16 UTC

  Reducing meat and milk consumption helps lower greenhouse gas emissions

  

  Reducing the consumption of meat and dairy products and improving agricultural practices could decrease global greenhouse gas emissions substantially. By 2055 the emissions of methane and nitrous oxide from agriculture could be cut by more than eighty percent, researchers of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research find.