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Famine Prevention Organic News
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| RESEARCH REVIEW: Famine Solution….through an Organic Green Revolution | RESEARCH REVIEW: Famine Solution….through an Organic Green Revolution | Dec 05, 2009 |
| GMOs: Bush’s enduring legacy | Aside from the loss of biodiversity and endangered species, gene escape and contamination may be one of the most lasting environmental effects of the Bush administration’s policies. | Dec 18, 2008 |
| Destruction in Darfur | War in Darfur has wreaked havoc on the environment as displaced farmers and other refugees turn to one of the only sources of income to be found: timber. | Dec 18, 2008 |
| Syngenta petitions for deregulation of GMO ethanol corn (comments wanted!) | The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) requests comment on a petition from Syngenta Seeds, Inc. for the deregulation of corn that has been genetically engineered to produce an enzyme that facilitates ethanol production. | Dec 04, 2008 |
| “Export-oriented” farm policy may have spelled demise of the family farm | Pricing food at its fair value supports the family farm and may begin the economic healing process from the ground up, argues Jay Greathouse of Commondreams.org. | Dec 04, 2008 |
| Food production revives beauty and bounty in San Francisco’s backyards | It doesn’t take much land to grow enough food for one family, as even San Francisco city-dwellers are discovering, with a little help from local enterprise MyFarm. | Nov 20, 2008 |
| Flagging ethanol market raises new questions about the fate of corn | Squeezed between high corn prices left over from flooded Midwestern fields, falling fuel prices and the credit crunch, the ethanol industry shows signs of anemia. | Nov 20, 2008 |
| Monsanto – friend or foe to the hungry? | In the middle of a global food crisis, Monsanto invests in Brazilian sugarcane ethanol, and projects record profits for 2008. | Nov 20, 2008 |
| South African farmers trained in organic ag to boost food, income stability | Fifty small-scale farmers in the Valley of a Thousand Hills in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province have been taught how to farm organically by non-governmental organization Valley Trust. | Nov 06, 2008 |
| Urban farmer spawns a growing movement in Milwaukee | Will Allen, founder of Growing Power, a community-based organization and urban farm in Milwaukee, made his vision a reality by working to improve the local food supply, reducing energy use, and educating citizens of Milwaukee and Chicago about grassroots agriculture. | Oct 20, 2008 |
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