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SUNS # 9641 Tuesday 6 September 2022
 
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United Nations : Global food prices fall for fifth month in a row in August (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Geneva)
The international prices of a basket of key agricultural food commodities declined for the fifth consecutive month in August, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Caribbean : Seeking solutions to seaweed influx (PRIV)
(IPS, Dominica)
In June 2022, swathes of matted, putrid seaweed took over the shores of beaches across the Caribbean.

Brazil : Biomethane, the energy that cleans garbage (PRIV)
(IPS, Fortaleza)
The increasing productivity with which humankind generates waste has gained at least one sustainable counterpart: the extraction of biogas from landfills, a growing activity in Brazil.


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