They are simply a function of the market that brings together those who have certain commodities and those who want them.

We have now about 425,000 samples of unique crop varieties.

CROPS FROM WHICH DRUGS ARE EXTRACTED AND APPROPRIATE STRATEGIES FOR THEIR REDUCTION

It became entertainment it became a new kind of commodity, something I was selling.

Statistical information concerns illicit crop cultivation, drug production and seizures.

The international community should assist such countries in halting the cultivation of those drugs.

We're going up to over a million, and someday we'll basically have samples about 500 seeds of every variety of agricultural crop that can be stored in a frozen state in this facility.

For each food type, we believe that there are different potencies within different strains and varietals.

Illicit drug trends were to some extent determined by supply and demand, but drug cultivation was also about poverty, just as drug abuse was also about HIV AIDS.

Now this attraction to objects doesn't just work for celebrity objects.

Biofuels. Liquid biofuels are renewable transport fuels made from plant materials.

The commodities that are smuggled are usually one of five types prohibited products such as drugs or nuclear materials differentially taxed products such as cigarettes regulated products such as firearms, endangered species and cultural property stolen property such as cars or art and antiquities and counterfeit goods.

Commercial credit this institution has contracts with the PASAL development project, which has organized vendors into cooperatives, where members contribute guarantee funds that allow them to draw significant amounts.

On occasion, they may even engage in direct exchanges, bartering one kind of criminal commodity, such as weapons, for another kind, such as drugs.

The project has also produced several publications a National Catalogue of Species and Varieties of food crops and two volumes of Seed production techniques in Congo .

Commodities are things that you grow in the ground, raise on the ground or pull out of the ground basically, animal, mineral, vegetable.

Where such large explosive articles are as part of their operational safety and suitability tests subjected to test regimes that meet the intentions of these Recommendations and such tests have been successfully undertaken, the competent authority may approve such articles to be transported under these Recommendations.

In contrast, many of the areas where diverse plant species and genetic varieties still exist are managed by farmers and pastoralists whose systems share several common characteristics diversity in cropping and cultivation, micro level adaptations, successional vegetation and small scale farming.

The cultivation of illicit drug crops remains a serious impediment to the sustainable development of some countries.

PRANI diet supplement (a monthly food parcel containing nine foods)

Food means any finished product or raw materials provided for people to eat or drink, as well as any product that has traditionally served as both food and medicament, with the exception of products used solely for medical purposes.

You can bring large objects into the chamber itself.

Jewellery and related articles.

The situation therefore required more effective international cooperation and the provision of assistance to transit countries and countries that had introduced replacement crops.

In Sudan, IFAD has funded research into cash and forage crop varieties that are resistant to drought, salinity and poor soil conditions.

It's really about trying to create a novel body language for a new creature.

The public libraries contain basic works, reference works, periodicals and children's books.

The sweetener was being evaluated for incorporation into non food items, such as toothpaste, mouthwash, throat lozenges and cough medicine.

And we decided that what we want to store first of all, are the species that are most under threat.

But then what Betty did was to take a little taste of food from each bowl.

The experiment logistics module will be used to transport experimental equipment, samples, various gases and supplies.

The entries in these lists encompass many micro organisms with low human pathogenicity, most animal and plant pathogens and a variety of simulants.

These funds are used for development based initiatives in rural areas where illicit crops are grown, as a means of removing the economic dependence on drug crops.

In other words, we should not rebuild a primary economy that is based on a single crop or that exports low tech products that do not generate sufficient resources for collapsed States with growing urban populations.

In addition, his Government had heeded the call of the international community to clamp down on the cultivation of plants used in drug production.

Roger Radcliffe, a musician of sorts.

In collaboration with programme partners, IOM provided the internally displaced with food, seeds, tools, medical assistance and transport of household belongings.

(d) To channel technical cooperation, at the earliest possible stage, towards national capacity building to counter the illicit cultivation of narcotic crops, trafficking and drug abuse.

Demand reduction is now considered to be as important a deterrent to drug abuse as reducing illicit drug crop cultivation and illicit drug manufacture, or combating illicit drug trafficking.

Moreover, it was the only region in the world where, according to various UNODC reports, drug cultivation and production had fallen.

If the goods arrive as cargo they are locked in the Valuables Cage until the arrival of the consignees' agent when they are examined by Customs in his presence.

To put that number into perspective, here's a graph comparing the 40,000 species of spiders to the 400 species of primates.

Our first product was a textile where we analyzed 8,000 chemicals in the textile industry.

The first works were actually objects.

The forced loss of poppy crops has left farmers unable to repay the drug traffickers who lent them money to buy seeds.