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• Worker-owned urban agriculture cooperative venture

  
  City Farmer News — Authority: 133
  Urban activist Majora Carter, second from right, talks about ideas for farming in the city during a recent visit to Detroit. She met with local officials and members of nonprofits at Catherine Ferguson Academy on Dec. 2. (JAMES BURLING CHASE/Majora Carter Group) Activist sows seeds for farm co-op owned by workers, ...
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• United Fresh Releases Updated Industry Metrics for Tomato Food Safety

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 152
  United Fresh Releases Updated Industry Metrics for Tomato Food Safety Source: United Fresh Produce Association With an increased spotlight on food safety issues, buyers and suppliers of fresh and fresh-cut tomatoes now have a reliable set of auditing benchmarks, thanks to the combined efforts of over 100 ...
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• Working on Christmas

  
  The Dairyman's Blog — Authority: 106
  I hope you all have had a Merry Christmas and that you are enjoying any time off work that you might have. I know that many businesses close for several days before and after Christmas, but a dairy farm is one business that doesnt have that luxury. Whether its Christmas, Easter, Independence Day, or any holiday, the ...
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• A Christmas list

  
  Halfway There — Authority: 409
  Checked more than twice In a twenty-four period from the afternoon of Christmas Eve to the afternoon of Christmas Day, I collected the following deep insights and observations from my parents: Dad: “Why are all women on welfare so fat? They sure dont look like they ever go hungry?” Its probably because he ...
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• Deciphering Okra & Other Plants

  
  Timbuktu Chronicles — Authority: 471
  Biodiversit y brings to our attention the work of researchers in fields ranging from plant genetics to ethnobotany . Olagorite Adetula is presently working on screening"...500 samples of okra to assess the amount of genetic variability..." for purposes of improving disease resistance. Award winning Maryam ...
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• Unhealthy Food System Makes 1/3 of Eligible Recruits Too Fat To Serve in the Military

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 605
  photo: J. Novak It is becoming more and more evident that the American food system is beginning to weigh us down. No pun intended. But a new study done by the non-profit Mission: Readiness found on Civil Eats , that 1/3 of young people are unfit to serve because of weight. Frightening statistics in a time where ...
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• Slums, Climate Change And Human Health In Sub-Saharan Africa

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 708
  Sub-Saharan Africa is the least urbanized region in the world. Only 39.1% of the regions population lives in cities.1 However, the regions urban population is projected to more than double to 760 million by 2030.1 The rate of urbanization makes it very challenging to manage. A recent paper in the New England Journal ...
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• CSPI Finds a Troubling Decline in Foodborne Outbreak Investigations by State Health Officials

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 152
  CSPI Finds a Troubling Decline in Foodborne Outbreak Investigations by State Health Officials Source: Center for Science in the Public Interest In a troubling trend, state health departments completed fewer foodborne outbreak investigations in 2007 than in the previous decade, according to the Center for Science ...
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• U.S. to help India predict monsoons with greater certainity

  
  Trakin' the india business buzz — Authority: 558
  It might sound hard to digest but the United States has agreed to help India predict and track the monsoons better by providing imagery from its satellites.The advanced satellite images will help India track the monsoon changes with a greater degree of certainty. The US has agreed to provide India with imagery ...
  18 hours ago

• Manure-to-Electricity: Dairy Farmers Get Their Crap Together

  
  CleanTechies Blog - CleanTechies.com — Authority: 479
  The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced an agreement with U.S. dairy producers to accelerate adoption of innovative manure to energy projects on American dairy farms. The agreement represents a dynamic public/private partnership and is another demonstration of the Obama Administration’s commitment to curb the ...
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• ENDING HUNGER AT THE FOOD CONFERENCE

  
  The Jew and the Carrot — Authority: 424
  The Friday morning session entitled “Food Justice: Tools to Help Organize and Lobby More Effectively” featured Scott Minkow and Eric Schockman. Minkow discussed the amazing work that he has been leading through the LA community Jewish Federation. One project that was really taking off is called “Fed Up With ...
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• Paper mill closure frees water for Tassie farmers

  
  eco media — Authority: 122
  Tasmanian irrigators will benefit from the closure of the PaperlinX mill in the state’s North-West. The transfer of water rights is expected to save farmers approximately 33% on water costs.
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• Ag board: Officials could improve transfers

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 502
  From the Capital Press:“Members of the State Board of Food and Agriculture say changes to California’s system for approving water transfers are cause for optimism.In 2009, the state established its third Drought Water Bank — a clearinghouse for water sellers, usually north-state users, and water buyers, largely ...
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• Agriculture isn’t the world’s ‘worst human mistake’, says columnist

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 502
  From The Packer, this column by Larry Waterfield:“The world’s population is getting close to 7 billion. It will continue to rise to 9 billion over the next 40 years and then is projected to level off. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.Even today food insecurity, famine and lack of good nutrition affect more than ...
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• Top Picks for 2010: AgFeed Industries (FEED)

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 667
  Filed under: International markets , China , Newsletters , Agriculture , Stocks to Buy , best stocks for 2010 This post is part of a special report, Top Picks for 2010, the 27th annual survey in which TheStockAdvisors.com asks the nations leading advisors for their single favorite stock for the new ...
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• BurkinaLait

  
  Timbuktu Chronicles — Authority: 471
  Spore profiles the micro - dairy business and highlights a succeesful example, Burkinalait : ...As for processing, several examples of mini-dairies developed in West Africa show promising results. The most successful are those located close to dairy production units. Burkina Fasos National Union of Mini ...
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• Strawberry Hands, Bent Backs, Uncertain Futures

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 643
  This is the 7th post in a series on the business of sustainable agriculture by the folks at Bon Appétit Management, a company that provides café and catering services to corporations, colleges and universities. To read past posts, click here.By Vera Chang, West Coast Fellow for Bon Appétit ManagementOn the website ...
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• China’s 2008 GDP growth upped to 9.6 percent

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Beijing, Dec 25 (IANS) China has upped its gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate for 2008 to 9.6 percent from 9 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday.That raised GDP for 2008 to 31.4045 trillion yuan from the previous 30.067 trillion yuan, NBS director Ma Jiantang said at a press ...
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• Half of Lok Sabha MPs did not participate in any debate

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) For every hour when parliament is in session, the government spends nearly Rs.14 lakhs (Rs. 1.4 million) of tax payers’ money. And just imagine how much the state exchequer must have lost during the just concluded winter session when there was not a single 100 percent productive day with ...
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• Rajiv Shah’s nomination as USAID chief confirmed

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 25 (IANS) The United States Senate has approved the nomination of Rajiv Shah to head the US Agency for International Development (USAID), making him the highest ranking Indian American in the Obama administration.The Senate unanimously Thursday confirmed the nomination of Shah, 36, and ...
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