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"There's higher milk production, so you get better calf survival, you see more income, an extra calf here means a child can be educated."

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"We'll see a 30 per cent abatement in methane, so if Laos fed every cow tomorrow it could meet its Paris carbon pledge."
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"They're very poor, for them this is all their wealth, if it doesn't work they lose everything,"
he said.

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"My background's in corporate real estate, which is where we came up with the idea of renting,"
Ms Martin said.

"We pay them $100 every time they bring a buffalo to the farm, that's almost the equivalent of a month's salary,"
she said.

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"Some get sick when they give birth, the baby's not healthy, the baby dead,"
she said.

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"The more cheese we sell, the more buffaloes we rent, the more farmers we can support."

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