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grist.org - 10 days ago
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by Lester Brown For the 193 national delegations
gathering in Copenhagen for the U.N. Climate Change Conference
in December, the reasons for concern about climate change vary widely. For delegations from low-lying island countries, the principal ...
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The Copenhagen Conference on food security
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washingtonpost.com - 4 days ago
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washingtonpost.com —
Today, about 90 percent of Nigeria's agricultural output
comes from inefficient small farms, according to the World
Bank, and most farmers have little or no access to fertilizers, irrigation or other modern inputs. Most do not even grow enough food to ...
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Global Food Crisis (washingtonpost.com)
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guardian.co.uk - 7 days ago
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The challenge of feeding billions of people as
fuel supplies fall is staggering. And yet leaders' heads
remain stuck in the sand I don't know when global oil supplies will start to decline. I do know that another resource has already peaked and gone ...
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The one thing depleting faster than oil is the ...
news.yahoo.com - 9 days ago
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Agence France-Presse: Standing amidst a group of scrawny
fellow Ethiopian farmers, Tuke Shika points to the scorching
sun when asked why his food reserves have dwindled this year. "The weather has changed, it's not as it used to be before," ...
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Climate change compounds Ethiopia's food crisis
guardian.co.uk - 13 days ago
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Delta has been warming faster than global average
for a decade, and the impact is already being
felt, according to WWF China China's most populous river needs massive investment and careful planning to ease the impact of climate change, which is ...
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Yangtze delta warned to prepare for effects of climate ...
grist.org - 9 days ago
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by Makenna Goodman It’s always sunny in this
Philadelphia community garden.Photo courtesy Tony the Misfit via Flickr
Do you dream of an organic garden, but don’t have a yard? A flock of chicks, perhaps, but don’t have a yard? ...
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The new wave of urban farming (and fresh food from small ...
guardian.co.uk - 8 days ago
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guardian.co.uk —
Palm oil is decimating the world's forests, yet
producers are shirking their responsibility to move to sustainable
sources A couple of years ago I met a nonplussed father whose eight-year-old daughter refused to allow him to eat mayonnaise because ...
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Is it possible to avoid unsustainable palm oil?
fao.org - 10 days ago
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Why a World Food Summit in 2009? The
global food insecurity situation has worsened and continues to
represent a serious threat for humanity. With food prices remaining stubbornly high in developing countries, the number of people suffering from hunger ...
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World Summit on Food Security: World Summit
telegraph.co.uk - 29 days ago
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Telegraph: :: Traditional techniques: Crop rotation, natural fertilisers
and other methods have been used for generations. However
there are a number of ways to boost these techniques, for example by experimenting with types of clover to fix nitrogen ...
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How will farmers feed the world in the future?
grist.org - 26 days ago
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by Tom Laskawy With the rumors swirling that
Michelle Obama is a big fan of former FDA
Commissioner David Kessler’s new book The End of Overeating , it seems reasonable to check in on the science behind an “addiction model” for ...
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Scientists claim junk food is as addictive as heroin
environmentalleader.com - 21 days ago
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More than 250,000 tons (metric tons) of certified
sustainable palm oil have been purchased (PDF) since its
availability late last year, marking the first stages of a viable market for sustainable palm oil, according to the Roundtable on Sustainable ...
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Certified Sustainable Palm Oil Trade Exceeds 250,000 MT
got2begreen.com - 19 days ago
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got2begreen.com —
Tennessee has started what could prove to be
a great new program, as far as the environment
is concerned. It’s a Middle Tennessee initiative called Conserve My Land . Its goal is to “encourage farmland preservation on the urban fringe” and also to promote practices which not ...
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Conserve My State
action.panna.org - 17 days ago
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Islam Siddiqui -- current VP of science and
regulatory affairs at CropLife, and a former lobbyist --
has been nominated to the critical post of U.S. Chief Agricultural Negotiator. This position will enable him to keep pushing chemical pesticides, ...
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Pesticide Action Network North America
care2.com - 17 days ago
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care2.com —
Your favorite food, vegetable or fruit, may soon
come with genes inserted from bacteria, parasites or even
scorpion. And the first such genetically modified (GM) food to reach your dining table would be brinjal or eggplant. The recent Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC)'s approval of Bt br
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Say No to genetically modified (GM) food - Naresh Kadyan
