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Famine Prevention Organic News
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| Mexico City vows to stand behind native corn varieties | Corn is Mexico’s staple crop, and protecting native varieties from transgenic infiltration may be its prime route to a more food-secure, sustainable future. | Apr 08, 2009 |
| World's largest urban community farm sprouts from decay | A planned urban farm on the Lower East Side of Detroit will make more than 70 acres of abandoned and vacant land productive and publicly useful. | Apr 08, 2009 |
| Food safety issues tip famine and trade scales in Africa | More investment in food safety infrastructure - staff and facilities required to monitor and maintain a safe food supply - may be one of the missing links in developing countries’ ability to compete in the international marketplace, let alone feed their own citizens. | Mar 20, 2009 |
| Return to rice reserves shows food can’t be commodified, despite free trade ideology | The rice price run-up in April 2008 and its steep fall this winter has prompted Vietnam and Thailand to re-establish a bi-national stockpile to cushion these spikes, regardless of their long-term trade commitments.
| Mar 04, 2009 |
| Growing seed vault a would-be fallback in the face of climate change and famine | At the year-old Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, a shipment of almost 4 tons of seed, containing about 90,000 samples, just arrived, a testament to the endeavor’s growing success and commitment to protect worldwide crop genetic diversity. | Feb 27, 2009 |
| Multinationals find local sourcing boost profits, community economies | Sourcing and selling local may hold some major payoffs, some multinational corporations are finding. | Feb 27, 2009 |
| The Wal-Mart effect and the true value of food | Gristmill guest contributor Tom Laskawy illuminates the growing struggle of middle-class Americans to maintain their standard of living, while discount stores like Wal-Mart may sadly be the only means to prop up the illusion (as real wages for the majority fall). | Feb 18, 2009 |
| Balancing the food budget in tough times | Learn from finance and nutrition experts who plot out how to keep healthy, let alone organic food, in the budget. | Feb 18, 2009 |
| Military tries peaceful grain growing approach in Taliban country | National Guard Agribusiness Development teams in Afghanistan staged a creative offensive to Taliban control: they established an alternative wheat-seed farm to compete with the Taliban-controlled operation at Khajanoor Farms. | Feb 04, 2009 |
| With plentiful land, will Canada become a target for offshore farms? | Countries like the U.S., short on fertile land and worried about long-term food security, are on the lookout for possible steals abroad. | Feb 04, 2009 |
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