Blogposts tagged 'Famine'

Kyoto saved: not yet the planet

Posted by bex - 22 October 2004 at 7:00am - 0 Comments
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The Russian parliament voted to ratify the Kyoto Protocol today in a blow to George W Bush's opposition to action on climate change.

Kyoto coming to force is a geopolitical ground shift. Russian ratification pushes this global climate protection agreement over the threshold required to become international law.

Article tagged as: climate change, famine, government, greenland, impacts, international policy, kyoto protocol, malaria, science

Kyoto saved: not yet the planet

Posted by bex - 22 October 2004 at 7:00am - 0 Comments
smokestack

smokestack

The Russian parliament voted to ratify the Kyoto Protocol today in a blow to George W Bush's opposition to action on climate change.

Kyoto coming to force is a geopolitical ground shift. Russian ratification pushes this global climate protection agreement over the threshold required to become international law.

Article tagged as: climate change, famine, government, greenland, impacts, international policy, kyoto protocol, malaria, science

Briefing: GM Crops won't feed the world

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

Publication date: February 2004

Summary
It has been a year since the "hunger crisis" erupted in Southern Africa which again highlighted the ongoing threat to food security in that region. While the anticipated crisis in Africa did not emerge, the global food and hunger situation has continued to deteriorate ...

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Article tagged as: agriculture, famine, GM crops, GM food, reports

USAID and GM Food Aid

Publication date:  21 March, 2007

Publication date: October 2002

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Article tagged as: agriculture, contamination, development, famine, GM food, reports, southern africa

Environmental Trust: Organic and agroecological farming in the South

Publication date:  7 February, 2002

The crisis in Argentina in late 2001 illustrated again a frustrating and unjust reality: there is no direct relationship between the amount of food a country produces and the number of hungry people who live there. In 2001, Argentina harvested enough wheat to meet the needs of both China and India. Yet Argentina's people were hungry. Argentina's status as the world's second largest producer of GM crops - largely for export - could do nothing to solve its very real hunger problems at home. For fifty years conventional agriculture has been getting less and less sustainable.

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