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| How the global food market starves the poor | A stunningly well animated video asks: How is it that one world, with smart farmers and good businesspeople, each making good economic decisions, has so many overweight and so many chronically malnourished?
| Mar 16, 2010 |
| Cuban organic farmers counter pests with mycorrhizal fungi, biodiversity | Cuban organic farmers depend on soil health to feed crops as part of a biologically complex management approach.
| Mar 12, 2010 |
| Cuba plans organic urban farms to revive agriculture | The Cuban government has announced a project that promotes fruit, vegetable and livestock production in four mile-wide rings around 150 cities and towns within the country. It is hoped that the five-year initiative will rejuvenate Cuba’s agriculture and improve its economy. | Feb 22, 2010 |
| Haitian ag sector damage target of FAO assessment | The spring planting season that supplies Haiti with 60 percent of the nation’s agricultural production is approaching as relief efforts continue. Important infrastructure necessary for cultivation and distribution of food was damaged, with irrigation canals and storage facilities destroyed in the earthquake. | Jan 26, 2010 |
| Zimbabwe facing hunger as heat, drought threaten crops | Around 2.2 million people, 18 percent of Zimbabwe’s population, will face food insecurity through March, according to recent estimates. This is up from 1.7 million Zimbabweans who needed food assistance from October to December of 2009. | Jan 21, 2010 |
| 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 |
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