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    UN calls for change in farming practices as food riots continue - by frog



    As food prices around the world continue to soar, a United Nations report released today says that industrial agricultural practices are exhausting land and water resources, destroying diversity and hurting poor people. The report’s authors recommend that agricultural science place greater emphasis on safeguarding natural resources and on ‘agro-ecological’ practices, including the use of natural [...] read more
    April 10, 2008 12:15 pm - 9 Comments
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    Hunger - by frog



    Earlier this week the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) announced that the rapidly rising price of food was having a two-fold impact on its efforts to feed people in food poverty.  First more people were suffering food poverty because of the price rises and second, the WFP could afford less food on its existing [...] read more
    February 28, 2008 2:35 pm - 41 Comments
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    World’s poorest hit by food shortages - by frog



    The United Nations is warning that food supply around the world is rapidly and unexpectedly dwindling and that those who go hungry as a result are most likely to live in poor underdeveloped countries. Food costs have risen dramatically, as I noted last week, while supply and reserves are down all around the world. Diouf [...] read more
    December 19, 2007 11:33 am - 13 Comments
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    Canada, Japan and US must commit to binding targets - by frog



    There’s an expression that goes something like ‘this is where the rubber hits the road’.  Well, that’s probably the opposite of the outcome we want from Bali. But the time has definitely come to find whether our global representatives can commit to doing something before they leave the Indonesian island. The UN is clearly worried [...] read more
    December 13, 2007 3:27 pm - 3 Comments
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