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• Oil palm workers still below poverty line, despite Ministers statements

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  On October 19th, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok told parliament that oil palm harvesters and rubber tappers are living above Malaysias national poverty line, according to a story in the Malaysian Insider . But now representatives of the workers are saying Dompok lied.
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• Using fish as livestock feed threatens global fisheries

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Fish doesnt just feed humans. Millions of tons of fish are fed every year to chickens, pigs, and even farmed fish even in the midst of rising concerns over fish stocks collapses around the world. Finding an alternative to fish as livestock feed would go a long way toward preventing the collapse of fish populations ...
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• US asks Pakistan to show ‘results’, bring Saeed to justice

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) Three days before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh goes to Washington, the US envoy to India Wednesday said expanding counter-terror cooperation would be a cornerstone of the discussions. He also asked Pakistan to show “action” by bringing Hafiz Saeed, the alleged 26/11 mastermind, to ...
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• Declaration calls for more wilderness protected areas to combat global warming

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Meeting this week in Merida, Mexico, the 9th World Wilderness Congress (WILD9) has released a declaration that calls for increasing wilderness protections in an effort to mitigate climate change. The declaration, which is signed by a number of influential organizations, argues that wilderness areas—both terrestrial ...
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• Kiva Confusion

  
  Microfinance Blog — Authority: 119
  The New York Times  just picked up  on the buzz caused by David Roodman’s blog post  pointing out that Kiva  doesn’t lend directly to poor borrowers. Likening the revelation for many individual lenders to the scandal in the 1990s when many child sponsorship organizations amended their disclosures after the ...
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• Pranab Mukherjee to inaugurate Economic Editors’ conference today

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  New Delhi, Nov 3 (ANI): Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the two-day Annual Economic Editors’ Conference in the National Media Centre, here today.There will be separate sessions with the Ministers and senior officers of the key economic and infrastructure ministries participating in the Conference. ...
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• Pranab Mukherjee to inaugurate Economic Editors’ conference

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  New Delhi, Nov 2 (ANI): Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the two-day Annual Economic Editors’ Conference in the National Media Centre, here on Tuesday.There will be separate sessions with the Ministers and senior officers of the key economic and infrastructure ministries participating in the ...
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• SELJA WILL INAUGRATE WOMEN JOURNALISTS CONFERENCE

  
  The India Post — Authority: 149
  Chandigarh, 31 October :Chandigarh Journalists Association affiliated to National Union Of Journalists is organizing 2nd women journalists conference on November 2, 2009 in Chandigarh Press Club to discuss the issues relating to challenges facing  women journalists in professional and personal life. Ms. Selja ...
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• MKFC Action Learning in Green Care Habitat

  
  Stockholm College — Authority: 126
  Maria is living in Kenya, Nairobi and are studying ”Environment and Sustainable Development” at MKFC. During her Learning in Action (LIA) period she actively participated and worked about two months with an NGO, Green Care Habitat (GRECAH), that is established in Kenya since 2009. Green Care Habitat is working ...
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• 200 million more people going hungry

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  The war on hunger is becoming a rout—and were losing. The UN World Food Program (WFP) announced today that during the last two years 200 million more people are going hungry.
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• "Money is not a problem," palm oil CEO tells conservationists during speech defending the industry

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Earlier this month at a colloquium to implement wildlife corridors for orangutans in the Malaysian state of Sabah, Dr. Yusof Basiron, the CEO of Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC), told conservationists and primate experts that the palm oil industry was ready to fund reforestation efforts in the corridors. "We can ...
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• Letting a thousand flowers wither

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 437
  Image by linkerjpatrick via Flickr The world will not halt the rate of reduction of biodiversity by 2010 SEEKING to alleviate poverty, reduce world hunger and protect biodiversity sounds, to your correspondent’s ears, like something a Miss World hopeful might have pledged in the 1980s. In fact, it was what ...
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