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Famine Prevention Organic News
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| RESEARCH REVIEW: Famine Solution….through an Organic Green Revolution | RESEARCH REVIEW: Famine Solution….through an Organic Green Revolution | Dec 05, 2009 |
| Feeding the world sustainably demands new approach to farming and food | Calls mount for shift from commodity outlook to organic, community orientation. | Dec 04, 2009 |
| GM sweet-potato trial failure shows need for better approach | Coalition questions the Obama Administration’s continued funding of genetically modified (GM) research with the stated aim of increasing food production in Africa.
| Aug 10, 2009 |
| San Francisco enacts new sustainable food policy | In an effort to raise awareness of local food and sustainable methods of food production, San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom has erected a new food policy for the city. | Jul 15, 2009 |
| Brazilian city one step ahead in hunger fight | Brazilian city Belo Horizonte emphasizes food sovereignty in food system planning. | Jun 25, 2009 |
| After agro-degradation of Green Revolution, Punjabi farmers find hope in organics | Organic farming is spreading in India as farmers seek a way out of escalating dependence on fertilizer and insecticides. | Jun 01, 2009 |
| India’s “Green Revolution” facing collapse as soils die, water table falls | Farmers in the Punjab region of India are living with increasing financial debt, and see their agricultural land losing productivity after years of pesticides, fertilizer and pumped irrigation water. | Apr 15, 2009 |
| Ethanol hiked prices on food and public nutrition programs | The increased use of ethanol as a fuel led to higher livestock feed prices over the past year, which resulted in higher retail food prices and put the squeeze on many Americans. | Apr 10, 2009 |
| Outdated policy in arid Eastern Washington gives free ride for industrial livestock producers’ water needs | A large proposed cattle feedlot is lobbying to move into one of the driest areas of Washington state, near aquifers that currently decline up to 10 feet each year, and would use just under 1 million gallons of water a day during the year’s driest months. | Apr 10, 2009 |
| Bitter year likely for North Dakota Farmers | Many North Dakota farmers feel particularly vulnerable after this year’s early spring floods, and worry that a productive year may not be in the forecast. | Apr 08, 2009 |
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