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• *****Soybean Export Sales Data Shows Food Crisis (Dec 08, 2009)*****

  
  Market Skeptics — Authority: 129
  Below is the latest export sales data for US soybeans, straight from the USDA’s website . I highlighted in red the numbers that are worth noticing. -------------------------------- Soybean Export Sales Outstanding (Metric Tons) Crop Year 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 ...
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• Mogadishu hospitals suffer dangerous lack of resources

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 140
  Oxfam’s Hassan Noor recently visited Banaadir and Medina Hospitals in Mogadishu. Medina and Banaadir are two of the biggest hospitals in Mogadishu, and every day all of the city’s problems come through their doors - young men with gunshot wounds, malnourished children, old women with malaria, cholera and other ...
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• Food… The Trade of the Decade

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 617
  “If you can tell me something else where the fundamentals are so attractive…I’d be happy to put my money there,” said Jim Rogers, the famed investor and self-made billionaire in a recent interview. “But I don’t know of any other place.” What’s he talking about? Agricultural commodities like soybeans, ...
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• Profile of the carbon footprint of the global poor: the challenge of alleviating poverty and fighting global warming

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Two of the worlds most serious issues—poverty and climate change—are interconnected. With a rise in ones income there usually comes a rise in ones carbon footprint, thereby threatening the environment. Wealthy nations have the highest per capita carbon footprints, while developing nations like India and ...
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• Donors And Governments Urged to Deliver on Promises to African Farmers

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  Africa can farm its way out of poverty and hunger – if donors and governments keep their promises to invest more in the women farmers who grow most of its food, anti-poverty agency Action Aid said on Monday. “With one in three Africans chronically hungry, food aid is not a solution. Investing in smallholder ...
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• *****Strategically Placed USDA Disaster Declarations*****

  
  Market Skeptics — Authority: 129
  The USDA is struggling with two competing objectives: A) The USDA aims to downplay agricultural disasters to prevent panic, food hoarding, and higher prices. B) The USDA needs to declare disaster areas to offer aid to struggling farmers. These contradictory objectives make for some interesting disaster declarations. ...
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• You Give Them Something to Eat

  
  Compassion International - Christian Blog on Child Poverty — Authority: 469
  Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.” “We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered.  – Matthew 14:16-17, NIV It seems we, as humans, are always passing the buck, or bucking the responsibility. Jesus saw the multitude and that the ...
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• *****Anger Mounts Over Price Hikes In India*****

  
  Market Skeptics — Authority: 129
  The Malaysian Insider reports that Anger mounts over price hikes in India . (emphasis mine) [my comment] Anger mounts over price hikes in India NEW DELHI, Dec 2 — India is bracing itself for nationwide protests against spiralling prices, which analysts say could potentially lead to ...
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• Parliament of World Religions

  
  Bruce Llama — Authority: 115
  Like a swarm of gnats descending on a pile of shit the parliament of the worlds religions has landed in Melbourne. The streets are adorned with much love and people wearing silly hats and dresses.  The worlds largest interfaith event is on its way.  Never mind that they can’t agree on the simple things, like ...
  6 days ago

• LIBERIA: Rewarding nutritional risk-takers (IRIN)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 146
  Read at : IRINLIBERIA: Rewarding nutritional risk-takers GBARNGA-TA, 3 December 2009 (IRIN) – Most communities have individuals or groups whose exceptional approaches to problems help them find better solutions than their peers, say behavior change experts, who call such individuals ‘positive deviants’.Two years ...
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• Hunger or Famine ? What about growing your own food ? (Mother Earth News)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 146
  Read at :http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/Square-Foot-Gardening-Food.aspx?utm_content=12.04.09+FG&utm_campaign=FG&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=emailGrow $700 of Food in 100 Square Feet!If more Americans grew a little food — instead of so much grass — our savings on grocery bills would be ...
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• Food Stamps at Record Highs in US

  
  Market Skeptics — Authority: 129
  The Big Picture reports that Food Stamps at Record Highs in US . (emphasis mine) [my comment] Food Stamps at Record Highs in US By Barry Ritholtz - November 29th, 2009, 11:30AM The number of food stamp recipients has climbed by about 10 million over the past two years, resulting in a ...
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• My Recent Interaction with a Green Peace Campaigner

  
  Green Options — Authority: 150
  Last week as I emerged from a grocery store I was met by a young GREENPEACE campaigner.  He asked me it I would like to sign a petition to  ”help save the whales.”  I told him that as much as I like whales, I could not in good conscience support GREENPEACE as an organization.  He looked genuinely stunned and ...
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• More Ag Disaster Areas, Emergency Aid For Farmers, And Latest USDA Propaganda

  
  Market Skeptics — Authority: 129
  USDA declares more disaster areas The News Star reports that 53 named ag disaster areas in Louisiana . (emphasis mine) [my comment] December 1, 2009 53 named ag disaster areas Parishes may see financial relief By Stephen Largen Some financial relief could be on the way for northeastern Louisiana ...
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• The Resourceful Ganges River

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 431
  Image of the Day: Day of the Dead on Holy Ganges River“THE UNCARED FOR.”  A dead body floats on the banks of the Ganges as a devotee Hindu performs rituals in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, considered to be one of Hinduism’s holiest cities. Photo: K.R. Deepak. The Hindu. Image may be subject to copyright.Will ...
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• Lab-Grown Pig Even Vegetarians Can Eat

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 720
  Dutch scientists are doing their bit to address the food crisis, the climate crisis and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals by growing pork meat from muscle cells harvested from a live pig. Their hope is to turn the cells from one animal into the meat from a million without killing any. Right now, you ...
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• Ag News Update

  
  Market Skeptics — Authority: 129
  Below is a batch of entries from Nogger’s Blog . (Definitely take the time to read Noggers blog if you want to keep track of what is going on in the agricultural world.) (emphasis mine) [my comment] Tuesday, 24 November 2009 Chinese Crop Estimates Grossly Overstated A very interesting report on ...
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• Finding Local Solutions to Weather the Ongoing Global Food Crisis

  
  Compassion International - Christian Blog on Child Poverty — Authority: 469
  The entire world is going through a severe economic crisis, and these difficult conditions have also produced a food crisis in many countries around the globe. México’s economy is not in good shape, and although México has not had a major food shortage; the main problem has been the constantly rising food cost ...
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• Americans throw away enough food every year to feed 200 million adults

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  The amount of food Americans throw away has risen by approximately 50 percent since 1974 according to a new study in PLoS ONE . American now waste on average 1400 calories per person everyday, equaling 150 trillion calories a year nationwide. Considering that the average person requires approximately 2,000 calories ...
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• Ethiopia: Shoots of life in drought-ravaged land

  
  Oxfam News Blog — Authority: 140
  What’s being done to protect people from the worsening drought in Ethiopia? Caroline Gluck reports. Mother of eight Momina Hashu surveyed her field of maize with despair. ”We hardly have anything to eat – just leftovers”, she said, pointing to a couple of stunted cobs of maize that she’s managed to ...
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