[Marxism] Reinventing Agriculture to Feed the Future

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Reinventing Agriculture to Feed the  Future
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More than 800 million  people suffer hunger today.
A new global effort has been launched to solve this
complex problem and find ways to double food 
production in 25 to 50 years in an environmentally
and socially sustainable manner under the conditions
of climate change. Impossible? Read IPS News to find  out...
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Q&A: "Increase  Agricultural Productivity While Reducing Eco-Footprint" 
Interview with Robert Watson
JOHANNESBURG - Over the past few years, Robert  Watson 
has had what must qualify as one of the world's tougher 
assignments: heading an initiative to help agriculture cope 
with the substantial challenges it faces presently, and the 
even bigger hurdles  ahead.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41983

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Reinventing  Agriculture 
Stephen Leahy
JOHANNESBURG - The result  of a painstaking global 
examination, the International Assessment of Agricultural 
Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) has 
explored how agriculture can be reinvented to feed the 
world's expanding population sustainably in an era of 
multiple challenges -- not least those presented by climate 
change and a growing food crisis that has led to outbreaks 
of violence in a number of developing  countries.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41984

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Global  Hot Spots of Hunger Set to Explode 
Thalif Deen
UNITED  NATIONS - As food prices continue to escalate 
worldwide, some of the poorest nations in the developing 
world are in danger of social and political  upheavals.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41976

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HAITI:  Food Crisis Sparks Anger and Despair 
Nick  Whalen
PORT-AU-PRINCE - A green, red and yellow-striped 
umbrella is all that keeps Hernite Joseph from the searing 
sun as she takes apart a frozen chicken with a screwdriver 
and places the small pieces into neat piles stacked three  high.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42011

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LATIN  AMERICA: Food or Fuel - That Is the Burning Question 
Walter Sotomayor
BRASILIA - The difficult balancing act between fighting  hunger, 
producing biofuels and defending the environment is at the 
centre of the debate at the 30th Regional Conference of the 
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) 
in the Brazilian  capital.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42000

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SRI  LANKA: Beating Grain Prices With Home Grown Rice 
Feizal  Samath
COLOMBO - Drastically lowered wheat consumption in this 
island country -- once running close to that of the domestically 
grown staple rice -- has been welcomed by food security 
experts as the only way to beat the current rise in global grain prices.  
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41993

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Scientists Ask  EU to Drop Biofuel Targets
David Cronin
BRUSSELS -  Scientists tasked with advising the European 
Union's policy-makers have called for a target on promoting 
the greater use of biofuels to be dropped.  As part of a battery 
of measures officially aimed at addressing climate change, 
the EU's governments agreed in 2007 that 10 percent of the 
bloc's transport needs should derive from agricultural crops by 2020.  
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41961

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Feeding  the Future - Investing in Agriculture  
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/agriculture/index.asp

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