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• Poor nations vow low-carbon path

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 438
  Image via Wikipedia Some countries believe climate change will increase the need for food aid Poor countries considered vulnerable to climate change have pledged to embark on moves to a low-carbon future, and challenge richer states to match them. The declaration from the first meeting of a new 11-nation ...
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• Climate Issues and Agriculture; Food Security; and Food Safety

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 124
  Climate Issues and AgricultureDan Morgan, a former Washington Post reporter and editor, who is now an independent writer specializing in agriculture and energy, published an article yesterday titled, “Mining Carbon Down on the Farm.” Datelined from Wheatland, Wyoming, the article stated that, “This region of the ...
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• World Briefing | The Americas: El Salvador: Storm Damage Prompts Call for Food Aid

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  At least 10,000 Salvadorans are in urgent need of food aid after floods and mudslides destroyed huge areas of crops during harvest season, the World Food Program said.
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• Climate Legislation; Biofuels; Chairman Lincoln; Food Security; Farm Bill; and Doha

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 124
  Climate LegislationDarren Samuelsohn of ClimateWire reported yesterday at The New York Times Online that, “The Senate climate debate shifts into a higher gear this week as advocates look beyond the partisan gridlock that engulfed the Environment and Public Works Committee and onto the broader quest of finding 60 ...
  6 days ago

• Climate Legislation; Harvest; Animal Agriculture; Nutrition Programs; and Biofuels

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 124
  Climate LegislationLisa Lerer reported on Friday at Poltico.com that, “While Sen. Barbara Boxer was celebrating her committee’s passage of a sweeping climate change bill Thursday, other Democrats and Republicans were already looking for a Plan B.“Rank-and-file members from both parties dismissed the Boxer bill, ...
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• White Farmers in Zimbabwe Warn of Hunger As Farm Invasions Continue

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  Zimbabwe’s white-dominated Commercial Farmers Union (CFU) has expressed concern at the rising incidents of violence against its members and warned of the dire impact this would have on the country’s ability to feed itself next year. CFU president Deon Theron said the organization was deeply concerned about the ...
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• NYT > World: U.N. Says U.S. Delays Led to Aid Cuts in Somalia

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 468
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . The American government has delayed food contributions out of fears they would be diverted to terrorists.
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• U.N. Says U.S. Delays Led to Aid Cuts in Somalia

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 145
  The American government has delayed food contributions out of fears they would be diverted to terrorists.
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• United States Approves $400m Humanitarian Support for Ethiopia

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  The United States government has announced $400 million humanitarian emergency food aid for Ethiopia. “The American people, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), have provided $340 million in emergency and humanitarian food aid — more than 464,000 metric tons –and more than $60 million ...
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• Climate Legislation; Crop Insurance-Harvest; Food Safety; Animal Agriculture; and SNAP (Food Stamps)

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 124
  Climate LegislationAn update posted yesterday at CQPolitics reported that, “Partisan politics threaten to derail progress on a Senate climate change bill, even before the first committee markup.“Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee say they will carry through on threats to boycott ...
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• Climate Legislation; Harvest-Prices; Food Security; and Animal Agriculture

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 124
  Climate LegislationReuters writer Richard Cowan reported on Saturday that, “All seven Republicans on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee plan to boycott next week’s work session on a climate-change bill, an aide said on Saturday, in a move aimed at thwarting Democratic efforts to advance the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Climate Legislation; Farm Bill; Crop Insurance; Biofuels; Food Stamps; CFTC Issues; and EU Issues

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 124
  Senate Climate Hearing, Day TwoDTN Ag Policy Editor Chris Clayton reported yesterday that, “Senators and industry groups argued over the impact a mandatory cap-and-trade market would have on energy costs and subsequent jobs and the economy in a second day of hearings on a potential climate and energy bill.“The ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mobile Phones Easier to Find Than Food for World’s Poor

  
  Internet & Democracy Blog — Authority: 406
  This news from Foreign Policy’s Joshua Keating is pretty amazing. He writes that: We’ve reached a very strange point in human history when it is assumed that people who don’t have access to food will have working cell phones. He points to an announcement by the UN that it will use cell phones to send ...
  2 weeks ago

• Letters: Seeking Ways to Feed a Hungry World

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  To the Editor:.
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• Mixed Reviews for North Korea’s “150-Day Battle”

  
  One Free Korea — Authority: 521
  The word from inside North Korea is that it fell far short of its stated goals, and that the people are still starving in the dark . The sum total appears to be that people did a lot of work that ultimately accomplished only short-term gains in “core” areas of the country: At the end of this September, a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Climate Legislation; Harvest Delays; Food Security; Biofuels; Nutrition Programs; and Derivatives Legislation

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 124
  Climate Legislation- More Details Released, Hearings This WeekIan Talley reported in today’s Wall Street Journal that, “The Senate debate over climate legislation is set to begin in earnest this week, with a key panel holding hearings on legislation that would curb U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions.“The hearings by ...
  3 weeks ago

• Saving Lives with Cashews in Mozambique

  
  Sramana Mitra on Strategy — Authority: 554
  By Guest Author Bruce McNamerMore than one billion people are going hungry on a daily basis, according to the United Nations World Food Programme. On average, that amounts to more than one out of every seven people on the planet. With our global levels of wealth, knowledge and resources, that... ..
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• Why is the West still feeding Ethiopia?

  
  Africa Blog — Authority: 507
                    It has now been 25 years since more than 1 million Ethiopians died as those of us lucky enough to live in the rich world sat transfixed in front of our television screens. The horrible suffering brought with it the biggest outpouring of charity ever seen as governments and ordinary ...
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• Climate Legislation; House Ag Comm. Hearing; Animal Ag; Food Security; Biofuels; Food Safety; and Doha

  
  FarmPolicy.com — Authority: 124
  Climate LegislationJessica Brady reported yesterday at Roll Call Online that, “The likelihood of climate change legislation making it to the Senate floor this year may be in doubt, but Foreign Relations Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) vowed Thursday he would press on with negotiations in order to keep the issue ripe ...
  3 weeks ago

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