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• Looking for land in a hungry country

  
  Oxfam America Blog — Authority: 412
  Kotola Buyale worries about what may happen to some of the pastureland in southern Ethiopia now that it has become productive again. Photo by Eva-Lotta Jansson/Oxfam America In August, I found myself sitting on the damp earth of Dida Liben, a once-flourishing pastureland in southern Ethiopia where animals, both wild ...
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• What Were Reading

  
  Diner's Journal — Authority: 673
  Contaminated chicken is still widespread, as was canned pumpkin, despite claims of a shortage.
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• Solving the World Water Problems: What McKinsey & Company does not say

  
  The Nuclear Green Revolution — Authority: 128
  McKinsey & Company, the management consultant company whose advice was so helpful to ENRON , Swiss-air, Kmart, and Global Crossing , has now published a 185 page report on current and future world water shortages. McKinsey & Company is of course a darling of the Greens because of a previous report that ...
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• Climate change may kill 400,000 children every year

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, November 30 (ANI): In a new report, a leading charity has warned that climate change could kill more than 400,000 children every year in the future because of floods and droughts.According to the Telegraph, the effects of climate change on children was compiled in a special report by a charity known as ‘Save ...
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• Heart of Dryness: Water Infrastructure and Climate Change

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 561
  Photo courtesy of the James Workman The Los Angeles Aqueduct carries water from the Owens River to the city of Los Angeles. Built in the early 20th century, the pipe allowed for the settlement and cultivation of the San Fernando Valley. Courtesy of Aquafornia.org By James G. Workman Special to Circle of Blue ...
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• Remember when the vaccine shortage was all Bush’s fault?

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Random DU comment from 5 years ago: “This may be Bush’s Waterloo!” Kerry points to Bush on vaccine shortage What a difference five years makes on flu vaccine shortage And a letter to the editor of the Kansas City Star [1], Inequity in politics of flu vaccine shortages During the Bush administration, the Democrats ...
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• Chavez asks Venezuelans to stop singing in the shower

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, Nov. 29 (ANI): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has asked people to stop singing in shower to avoid frequent power cuts and water shortages. But ten years after Chavez launched his socialist “revolution” funded by an 800-billion-dollars oil boom, the energy-rich state is plagued by ever more frequent power ...
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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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• EC faces water crisis

  
  Dispatch Now 24/7 — Authority: 440
  Eastern Cape water authorities could find themselves in a “situation like Eskom” if they don’t urgently invest in water infrastructure, the Amatola Water Board has warned, writes Babalo Ndenze.Acting chief executive Xola Bomela said on Wednesday the province had just enough water to last it until about 2030, and ...
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• Gene Banks to Preserve World’s Crops from Climate Change

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 541
  Design of the Svalbard seed vault as of early 2007 In 1992, the Global Biodiversity Convention (GBC) was adopted in Rio de Janeiro, and which placed the biodiversity issue center stage–calling for the world-wide preservation of biodiversity and its equitable and sustainable use. The convention was established in ...
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• Shifting Vaccine for Flu to Elderly

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  SUPPLY Nursing homes say they have gotten fewer vaccine doses than expected.
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• India unveils ambitious solar power mission (Lead, With Images)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) India’s ambitious mission to ramp up its solar power hundredfold in the next 13 years and reduce dependence on fossil fuels was unveiled here Monday.The mission anticipates achieving parity with cost of electricity on the grid by 2022 and parity with coal-based thermal power by 2030. The ...
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• The BIG fear - when food is unavailable at any price

  
  And, yes, I DO take it personally — Authority: 133
  so, if youve got money - lots of it - whaddaya gonna do...? why, buy up farm land from poor people and impoverished countries , folks so desperate for money theyre practically willing to give it away, and lock it up for yourself... lovely, eh...? A variety of factors — some transitory, like the spike in food ...
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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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• 65? Back of the Line for the Swine Flu Vaccine, Pal

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Older patients are top priorities for flu vaccine. But not for swine flu. They face fewer risks because they’ve been exposed to H1N1.
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• Help Improve Water Access In Nicaragua

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 612
  laszlo-photos Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Access to safe and clean water is a right that should be afforded to everyone, but unfortunately pollution, climate change and privatization, among other obstacles prevent one billion people obtaining this vital necessity. This upcoming Thanksgiving week, SYRV , a ...
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• Pumpkin pies follow Eggos on to endangered foods list

  
  Collateral Damage — Authority: 117
  It looks like a grim winter for Americans who will now have to get through the coldest months without two of their favorite food groups. Nestle, which owns the Libby’s brand of pumpkin pie and announced this week that heavy rain has hurt its pumpkin farms in Morton, Ill., to the point that it will not pack any ...
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• Where Have All The Turkeys Gone?

  
  Dennis's Diary of Destruction — Authority: 468
  [IMG: http://dennisthevizsla.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/baffling_turkey_shortage_1.jpg?w=447&h=618][IMG: http://dennisthevizsla.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/baffling_turkey_shortage_2.jpg?w=447&h=618][IMG: http://dennisthevizsla.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/baffling_turkey_shortage_3.jpg?w=447&h=618][IMG: ...
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• Buyer Beware: Insanely High Mainentance Costs Destroying UAE Real Estate Market

  
  USA2UAE.COM — Authority: 116
  Just ask yourself, why would you buy when the charges may be as high as 100k per year for maintenance… Homeowners in The Cove development in Ras al Khaimah could each face service bills of more than Dh100,000 (US$27,226) a year because the developer must rely on generators to provide power to the luxury resort. ...
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• How are We Going to Solve the Water (and Sanitation) Crisis?

  
  Triple Pundit — Authority: 665
  Here’s the deal. 1 billion people lack access to clean water. 2.5 billion people lack access to adequate sanitation. Every year 3 to 5 million people die from water-related diseases.Water will surely be the biggest issue of our time, globally. So, what are the strategies being used to bring clean water and ...
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