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1. What country is the second largest exporter of rice?

How much rice does it export annually?

2. What country is the largest importer of rice?

How much does it intend to import in the next few months to address

the coming rice crises?

3. What percentage of total rice exporter to Africa comes from Asia?

How much is it worth annually?

4. In 1910, 150 glaciers dotted the Glaciers National Park in Montana, USA.

How many are there now?

5. What is Europe’s biggest glacier? Why is it breaking up?

What are the consequence if it breaks up?

6. Which country is slowly disappearing due to rising sea water level?

Where is it?

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1	Despite this, Vietnam has remained consistently the second largest *exporter* of rice in the world ..3.9 m…….
2	The Philippines provides a grim example of how neoliberal economic restructuring transforms a country from a net food exporter to a net food importer. The Philippines is the world's largest importer of rice.
3	The consumer price index (CPI) measuring inflation for retail foodstuffs in the United States is expected to rise from 4.5 percent in 2007 to 5.5 percent in 2008. Those figures pale in comparison to the price increases faced by consumers in the developing world,
4	Glacier National Park: In 1910 there were 150 glaciers in the park; now there are 25, which are losing 9 percent of their mass per year. ...
5	The Rhône glacier is shrinking seven metres a year. Professor Fuchs insists that his wind- catcher will help to combat this.
6	From the air the tiny islets of Funafuti atoll appear as a broken pearl necklace scattered on the blue throat of the tropical sea. No other land is in sight, only an ocean without end and its own billowy breath rising as cumulus clouds that seem far more substantive than the tiny landforms below.

URL

http://groups.google.com. ph/group/le737e5c4bc/web /asia-exporter?hl=tl

http://www.commondreams. org/archive/2008/05/16/9004/

http://www.cfr.org/publication/16662/ food_prices.html

http://www.climateappraisal.com /news/index.aspx

http://www.independent.co.uk/enviro ment /climate-change/how-catching-cold- mountain-air-could- save-europes-glaciers-902913.html

http://www.motherjones.com /news/feature/2003/07/ma_444_01.html

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