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Famine Prevention Organic News
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| Tools for the Urban Farmer | A growing local food movement in Milwaukee, centered around the organization Growing Power, has spurred the growth and need for several related organizations, such as Community Growers, helping urban people grow their own food or get involved in the movement. | Jan 22, 2009 |
| GMOs: Bush’s enduring legacy | Aside from the loss of biodiversity and endangered species, gene escape and contamination may be one of the most lasting environmental effects of the Bush administration’s policies. | Dec 18, 2008 |
| Destruction in Darfur | War in Darfur has wreaked havoc on the environment as displaced farmers and other refugees turn to one of the only sources of income to be found: timber. | Dec 18, 2008 |
| Syngenta petitions for deregulation of GMO ethanol corn (comments wanted!) | The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) requests comment on a petition from Syngenta Seeds, Inc. for the deregulation of corn that has been genetically engineered to produce an enzyme that facilitates ethanol production. | Dec 04, 2008 |
| “Export-oriented” farm policy may have spelled demise of the family farm | Pricing food at its fair value supports the family farm and may begin the economic healing process from the ground up, argues Jay Greathouse of Commondreams.org. | Dec 04, 2008 |
| Food production revives beauty and bounty in San Francisco’s backyards | It doesn’t take much land to grow enough food for one family, as even San Francisco city-dwellers are discovering, with a little help from local enterprise MyFarm. | Nov 20, 2008 |
| Flagging ethanol market raises new questions about the fate of corn | Squeezed between high corn prices left over from flooded Midwestern fields, falling fuel prices and the credit crunch, the ethanol industry shows signs of anemia. | Nov 20, 2008 |
| Monsanto – friend or foe to the hungry? | In the middle of a global food crisis, Monsanto invests in Brazilian sugarcane ethanol, and projects record profits for 2008. | Nov 20, 2008 |
| South African farmers trained in organic ag to boost food, income stability | Fifty small-scale farmers in the Valley of a Thousand Hills in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province have been taught how to farm organically by non-governmental organization Valley Trust. | Nov 06, 2008 |
| Urban farmer spawns a growing movement in Milwaukee | Will Allen, founder of Growing Power, a community-based organization and urban farm in Milwaukee, made his vision a reality by working to improve the local food supply, reducing energy use, and educating citizens of Milwaukee and Chicago about grassroots agriculture. | Oct 20, 2008 |
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