Agriculture
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Food prices may rise by up to 20%, warns UN (John Vidal)
Read more...Prices of wheat, maize and many other foods traded internationally have risen by up to 40% in just a few months. Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images Poor harvests put global food reserves under ...
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Watch Out: The World Bank Is Quietly Funding a Massive Corporate Water Grab (Scott Thill)
Read more...Nov. 2, 2010 (AlterNet) -- Billions have been spent allowing corporations to profit from public water sources even though water privatization has been an epic failure in Latin America, Southeast Asia ...
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New Report Refutes Industry Argument that Genetically Modified Salmon will Feed Hungry World Populations (Food and Water Watch Europe)
Read more...Nov. 4, 2010 -- BRUSSELS (Food and Water Watch Europe) -- Food & Water Europe released a report today outlining why the genetically engineered salmon currently being considered by the U.S. Food and D ...
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'Good Food,' A Movement, Not Just A Movie (Carolyn Baker)
Read more...WATCH TRAILER Sept. 22, 2010 (CarolynBaker.net) -- While the movie "Good Food" spotlights organic farming in America's Pacific Northwest, if you've been paying any attention to the mood of consumers ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Palestine Betrayed. By Efraim Karsh (Jim Miles)
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Palestine Betrayed. Efraim Karsh. Yale University Press, London, 2010. Aug. 27, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Was Palestine betrayed? Of course it was, by the British, the United States, France, the ...
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Errant Climate May Be Sign of Breakdown, Scientists Say (Charles J. Hanley)
Read more...Heat waves, fires, and floods fit their predictions Aug. 13, 2010 -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Floods, fires, melting ice, and feverish heat -- from smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High Arcti ...
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Global systemic crisis / Second half of 2010: The global system’s four single points of failure (LEAP/E2020)
Read more...Public announcement GEAB N°46 (June 16, 2010) -- Each day the news confirm the extent to which the global systemic crisis has now entered into the phase of global geopolitical dislocation, even if th ...
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Raising Nicotine Doses, On The Sly | New York Times Editorial
Read more...New York Times Editorial Aug. 31, 2006 -- While most of us thought the country was trying to curb smoking, and the rapacious habits of the tobacco companies, it turns out the industry has been sneaki ...
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