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ASIA, Mounting Costs of Climate Change Raise Fears of Conflict
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http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=48679 By Ron Corben BANGKOK, Oct 1 (IPS) The rising challenge of climate change has raised fears of growing conflicts as the impact of more extreme weather triggers food water scarcities across the Asia ...
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AFRICA, Trees "vital for food security"
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http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=85898 NAIROBI, 28 August 2009 (IRIN) Countries tackling food insecurity and climate change adaptation can greatly benefit from agroforestry integrating fleshy plants and trees into their farming systems, environmental specialists ...
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Food Crisis Renews Haiti's Agony
(Environment and Security Cross-Cutting Initiative )
Haitians are no strangers to hunger. But even the resilience of the hemisphere's poorest citizens can be pushed too far, and with world food prices spiking this year due to shrinking harvests, burgeoning demand and skyrocketing fuel prices, it should be little surprise that Haiti is once ...
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Rich countries launch great land grab to safeguard food supply
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Julian Borger, diplomatic editor guardian.co.uk, Saturday November 22 2008 00.01 GMT The Guardian, Saturday November 22 2008 Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing ...
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ZIMBABWE, Military seed merchants
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http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=81090 HARARE, 23 October 2008 (IRIN) The distribution of agricultural inputs such as maize seed and fertiliser for the 2008/09 season has become the domain of Zimbabwe's military and President Robert Mugabe's ZANUPF party. As the first rains ...
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CHINA - Flirting With Land Tenure Reforms
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Antoaneta Bezlova BEIJING, Oct 13 (IPS) Faced with a deepening global financial meltdown, the Chinese communist party is contemplating farreaching internal reforms capable of insulating the country from the worst effects of the crisis such as by loosening its grip over land ...
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Biotechnology 'no cure-all' for food insecurity
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Ochieng' Ogodo 26 September 2008 EN Africans, like this Tanzanian paprika farmer, require more access to land and fertilisers to take advantage of the products of biotechnology USAID NAIROBI Biotechnology is no panacea to the food insecurity and poverty problems in Africa and other ...
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REPORT Climate change A new threat to stability in West Africa, Evidence from Ghana and Burkina Faso
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from IISD http://www.iisd.org/publications/pub.aspx?id=1011 By Oli Brown, Alec Crawford Over the past decades, the way we talk about climate change has evolved. Traditionally seen as an environmental and an energy issue ...
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Voluntary Standards and the Resource Curse
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http://www.enn.com/lifestyle/article/38093 From: Global Policy Innovations Program, More from this Affiliate Published September 4, 2008 09:34 AM In this TED talk, economist Paul Collier explains how the alliance of compassion and enlightened selfinterest ...
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AFGHANISTAN Dust storms cause health problems in west
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http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=79900 HERAT, 20 August 2008 (IRIN) Unusually strong winds carrying dust from the parched land have increased respiratory and eye diseases in western Afghanistan, according to health and environmental officials. The winds ...
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