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• From the Department of Incompatible Systems

  
  Needlenose — Authority: 123
  The opening paragraphs of this Washington Post story on Sunday sound more like a pitch for a science-fiction movie: For plants designed in a lab a little more than a decade ago, they’ve come a long way: Today, the vast majority of the nation’s two primary crops grow from seeds genetically altered according to ...
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• Validation Scientist

  
  RSS Jobs — Authority: 159
  Our client, a highly successful multi-national pharmaceutical company based in Athlone are looking to recruit a Validation Scientist on a permanent basis: - Job Description: - Reporting to the Manager ? Validation the successful candidate is charged with leading effort to prove control of the ...
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• In the U.S. and most of the rest of the world, Monsanto OWNS soybeans and corn

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 133
  heckuva strategy ... genetically modify seeds, patent them, build dominant market share to insure that your seeds are the only ones available and then keep raising the prices... pretty soon, the worlds food supply belongs to YOU... its the same strategy employed by the banksters to keep us servile and productive for ...
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• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
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• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Experts: Failure to focus on farming will undermine global climate agreement and increase hunger

  
  World Change Cafe — Authority: 120
  ROME, ITALY (18 November 2009)— Alarmed by a substantial oversight in the global climate talks leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month, more than 60 of the world’s most prominent agricultural scientists and leaders underscored how the almost total absence of agriculture ...
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• World Food Production Up – Hunger Too

  
  Irresponsibility — Authority: 107
  Posted by Irresponsibility As the First World frets about how to fight the Christmas flab the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports: “ In 2008 the number of undernourished people in the world increased by 40 million “. Not, as you might think, because of climate change, crop ...
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• Climate change and war

  
  Robert Kyriakides's Weblog — Authority: 129
  Many commentators have been predicting that climate change will create conflict. Most of us have envisaged that the conflict will arise when large numbers of people have to move from land that climate change will make unfit for habitation. The great river deltas of the world are home to half a billion people and if ...
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• China executes 2 people for milk contamination

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Beijing, Nov 26 (THAINDIAN NEWS) In a bizarre turn of justice, China has executed a dairy farmer and a milk salesman on Tuesday for their roles in the sale of contaminated baby formula. China has given such severe punishments so that it would be like balm to the public anger, reassure importers and put to [...]
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• Interview with Patty Lovera, Assistant Director Food and Water Watch

  
  FriendsEAT.com — Authority: 433
  Making it easier for you to make the right choices As much as we are in love with food, we have come to recognize that in today’s world, food is not only a source of pleasure, but an incredibly complicated issue. How are foodies to enjoy a gorgeous piece of sushi when worried if it will ever be on the menu ...
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• The Environmental Issues – Appropriate conservation and sustainable development strategies attempt to recognize this as being integral to any approach.

  
  WERI CHANNEL — Authority: 121
  Nature and Animal Conservation        Preserving species and their habitats is important for ecosystems to self-sustain themselves. Yet, the pressures to destroy habitat for logging, illegal hunting, and other challenges are making conservation a struggle. Visit : http://www.globalissues.org/article/1… ...
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• Study Debunks our "Fetish Of The Fresh"? Not.

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  Photo of farmed Norwegian salmon NatalieMaynor via flickr. Canadas National Newspaper claims that a new study proves that buying local is not as Earth-friendly as it seems. It starts off with a loaded and offensive line, calling the local food philosophy "a guilt-reduction approach adopted by many environmentally ...
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• The Human Face of Hunger Demands Climate Action at Copenhagen

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 699
  Photo credit: IRRI Images via Flickr As I prepare to attend the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen , I am reminded of the people Ive met while working in 85 countries around the world. Ive seen global suffering first-hand, and it shapes the way I approach the challenge of global climate ...
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• Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 140
  Image via Wikipedia Dr. Robert Zeigler, an eminent American botanist, flew to Saudi Arabia in March for a series of high-level discussions about the future of the kingdom’s food supply. Saudi leaders were frightened: heavily dependent on imports, they had seen the price of rice and wheat, their dietary ...
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• Scientists achieve breakthrough in bioethanol production from agricultural waste

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, November 22 (ANI): Researchers from Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands, achieved three improvements in bioethanol production from agricultural waste material.Bioethanol is made by the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae from sugars obtained from plant biomass. This microorganism also converts ...
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• Termites create sustainable monoculture fungus farming

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Food production of modern human societies is mostly based on large-scale monoculture crops, but it now appears that advanced insect societies have the same practice. Our societies took just ten thousand years of (mainly cultural) evolution to adopt this habit and we are far from convinced that it is sustainable. ...
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• The Rooftop Garden Climbs Down a Wall

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 140
  Ken Belson of the New York Times has written an interesting piece about green walls which looks at the green wall as a source of food production. Belson talks to a varied number of designers, universities and manufacturers about the green walls as food production. He also states that at $500 a panel they aren’t ...
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• Taking of Life

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 158
  Deer hunting is in full swing these days. Last weekend my brother and uncle both shot deer. The taking of life is something Ive been thinking about lately. A month ago I wrote about the two dogs I had to kill. Ive thought about them off and on since that day and last weekend went to see their decaying bodies where I ...
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• 70 percent of Cuba’s farmland under threat

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Havana, Nov 19 (EFE) Seventy percent of Cuba’s land under cultivation is being affected by erosion, salinity and acidity, agriculture ministry officials said.The director of the Soil Institute, Dagoberto Rodriguez, said Wednesday at a press conference in Havana that only half of Cuba’s 6.6 million hectares (16.3 ...
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• Method Development / Validation Analyst

  
  RSS Jobs — Authority: 159
  ANALYTICAL DEVELOPMENT CHEMIST - Waterford   Our client, a leading employer in the Waterford region have a permanent position available for an experienced Analytical Development Chemist. The purpose of this role is : - To test & analyse components/raw materials / finished products in a timely & ...
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