Q: In this task, you will be given a passage, a question and a list of single-word events identified from the passage. The goal is to point out all events from the given event list that can answer the question. If a question is unanswerable or none of the events answer the question, output should be empty.
Passage: The minister explained that the projects would encourage the production of meat, milk and cheese as well as increase farmers' income and minimize poverty in the benefiting states. The federal government was working toward addressing the threats of environmental degradation and other severe stress facing the country's land and water resources, he added. Question: What began before the minister explained? Events: ['explained', 'projects', 'encourage', 'production', 'increase', 'minimize', 'poverty', 'working', 'addressing', 'threats', 'degradation', 'stress', 'facing', 'added']
A:
projects