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"We Made a Devil's Bargain": Fmr. President Clinton Apologizes for Trade Policies that ... - 1 views

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Since 1981, the United States has followed a policy, until the last year or so when we started rethinking it, that we rich countries that produce a lot of food should sell it to poor countries and relieve them of the burden of producing their own food, so, thank goodness, they can leap directly into the industrial era. It has not worked. It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake.
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you just can’t take the food chain out of production. And it also undermines a lot of the culture, the fabric of life, the sense of self-determination
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We should have continued to work to help them be self-sufficient in agriculture.
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Extinction Countdown: Bugs off: Habitat loss killing Europe's butterflies, beetles and ... - 0 views

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The Red List update finds that 9 percent of Europe's butterflies, 11 percent of its saproxylic beetles and 14 percent of dragonflies are threatened with extinction, at least within the geographic confines of the European Union
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Butterflies, for instance, play a hugely pivotal role as pollinators in the ecosystems in which they live.
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31 percent of Europe's 435 butterfly species suffer declining populations
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The habitat loss afflicting these species comes from many factors, including agriculture, climate change, logging and the depletion of freshwater resources.
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EU Ministers Link Post-2010 Biodiversity and Climate Change - Climate-L.org - 0 views

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EU biodiversity climate change

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the Council recognizes that climate change is increasingly among the strongest pressures on biodiversity
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development and transfer of best practices and technologies will be essential to achieve a coordinated response
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public and private finance, including innovative forms of financing, and finance associated with the Copenhagen Accord, should -based on appropriate criteria- include scope for payments for ecosystem services
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the Council stresses the positive contribution of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture to food security and climate adaptation and mitigatio
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biodiversity and the ecosystem services we get for free from nature are preserved, valued and, insofar as possible, restored for their intrinsic value, enabling them to support economic prosperity and human well-being, and averting any catastrophic changes linked to biodiversity loss
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biodiversity protection is “a goal for the Spanish Presidency”
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EU postpones by a decade plans to stop extinctions : Nature Environment - 0 views

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the EU will have to bring in much stricter rules on protecting rare species and habitats and enforce them much more efficiently, ministers agreed
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the extinction of animals and plants and the destruction of their habitats costs around 50 billion euros (69 billion dollars) a year worldwide
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Microlending and Microfinance Organization - 0 views

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About Our Organization We invite you to explore the following pages to learn more about ACCION's leadership - men and women at the forefront of the microfinance industry - whose energy and enthusiasm are behind our every effort in the fight against poverty. In addition to our Board of Directors and Management Team, ACCION is fortunate to count among its leadership ranks the President's Council and Women's Leadership Network - all dedicated supporters who lend their financial and professional resources to ACCION's mission. Featured in a post bit.ly/aCzznX supporting S1425 GROWTH http://bit.ly/bb1oEI

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">About Our Organization We invite you to explore the following pages to learn more about ACCION's leadership - men and women at the forefront of the microfinance industry - whose energy and enthusiasm are behind our every effort in the fight against poverty. In addition to our Board of Directors and Management Team, ACCION is fortunate to count among its leadership ranks the President's Council and Women's Leadership Network - all dedicated supporters who lend their financial and professional resources to ACCION's mission. Featured in a post bit.ly/aCzznX supporting S1425 GROWTH <a href="http://bit.ly/bb1oEI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/bb1oEI</a></div>

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Women Thrive Worldwide - Home - 0 views

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Women Thrive develops, shapes, and advocates for policies that foster economic opportunity for women living in poverty. We focus on making U.S. international assistance and trade programs prioritize women. We bring together a diverse coalition of over 50 organizations and 40,000 individuals united in the belief that women are the key to ending global poverty, and empowering them is not only right, it's also the most effective long-term solution to world poverty. Featured in a recent post http://bit.ly/aCzznX supporting S 1425 GROWTH http://bit.ly/bb1oEI

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Women Thrive develops, shapes, and advocates for policies that foster economic opportunity for women living in poverty. We focus on making U.S. international assistance and trade programs prioritize women. We bring together a diverse coalition of over 50 organizations and 40,000 individuals united in the belief that women are the key to ending global poverty, and empowering them is not only right, it's also the most effective long-term solution to world poverty. Featured in a recent post <a href="http://bit.ly/aCzznX" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/aCzznX</a> supporting S 1425 GROWTH <a href="http://bit.ly/bb1oEI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/bb1oEI</a></div>

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Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People -- Godfray et al. 327 (5967): ... - 2 views

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more than one in seven people today still do not have access to sufficient protein and energy from their diet, and even more suffer from some form of micronutrient malnourishment
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Increases in production will have an important part to play, but they will be constrained as never before by the finite resources provided by Earth’s lands, oceans, and atmosphere
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a period of rising and more volatile food prices driven primarily by increased demand from rapidly developing countries, as well as by competition for resources from first-generation biofuels production
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agricultural land that was formerly productive has been lost to urbanization and other human uses, as well as to desertification, salinization, soil erosion, and other consequences of unsustainable land management
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the world will need 70 to 100% more food by 2050
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Low yields occur because of technical constraints that prevent local food producers from increasing productivity or for economic reasons arising from market conditions.
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In the most extreme cases of failed states and nonfunctioning markets, the solution lies completely outside the food system.
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Food production in developing countries can be severely affected by market interventions in the developed world, such as subsidies or price supports.
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the environmental costs of food production might increase with globalization, for example, because of increased greenhouse gas emissions associated with increased production and food transport
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Food production has important negative "externalities," namely effects on the environment or economy that are not reflected in the cost of food.
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superior technologies may become available and that future generations may be wealthier
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The introduction of measures to promote sustainability does not necessarily reduce yields or profits. One study of 286 agricultural sustainability projects in developing countries, involving 12.6 million chiefly small-holder farmers on 37 million hectares, found an average yield increase of 79% across a very wide variety of systems and crop types
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Unexploited genetic material from land races, rare breeds, and wild relatives will be important in allowing breeders to respond to new challenges
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Fair returns on investment are essential for the proper functioning of the private sector, but the extension of the protection of intellectual property rights to biotechnology has led to a growing public perception in some countries that biotech research purely benefits commercial interests and offers no long-term public good. Just as seriously, it also led to a virtual monopoly of GM traits in some parts of the world, by a restricted number of companies, which limits innovation and investment in the technology.
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Roughly 30 to 40% of food in both the developed and developing worlds is lost to waste
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unwanted food goes to a landfill instead of being used as animal feed or compost because of legislation to control prion diseases
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retailers discard many edible, yet only slightly blemished products
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In the developing world, losses are mainly attributable to the absence of food-chain infrastructure
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About one-third of global cereal production is fed to animals
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the argument that all meat consumption is bad is overly simplistic
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There is no simple solution to sustainably feeding 9 billion people
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UN report urges greater green efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean - 3 views

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in Latin America and the Caribbean,” the rate of deforestation in the region is double the global average
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targets contained within “MDG 7” is to integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes
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from 1990 to 2005 the total surface of protected areas grew 120 per cent, consumption of ozone-depleting substances declined by 85 per cent and coverage of drinking water and basic sanitation rose by 10 per cent and 17 per cent, respectively
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Do Diseases Come From Space: Comet Controversy - 1 views

MrGhaz . on 06 Jan 10

To test their theory, the two astronomers studied flu outbreaks in British boarding schools. They found that flu did not spread from dormitory to dormitory, as one might think. Instead, out-breaks began randomly in different dormitories, as they might if they had been caused by organisms they might if they had been caused by organisms drifting through the atmosphere. In addition a flu epidemic in Sardinia in 1948 followed the same pattern.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">To test their theory, the two astronomers studied flu outbreaks in British boarding schools. They found that flu did not spread from dormitory to dormitory, as one might think. Instead, out-breaks began randomly in different dormitories, as they might if they had been caused by organisms they might if they had been caused by organisms drifting through the atmosphere. In addition a flu epidemic in Sardinia in 1948 followed the same pattern.</div>

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Brian G. Dowling on 17 Jan 10

Sorry about not getting you in the group sooner. I did not realize that I had to approve anybody. So please explain a bit more clearly what this has to do with the Millennium Development Goals?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Sorry about not getting you in the group sooner. I did not realize that I had to approve anybody. So please explain a bit more clearly what this has to do with the Millennium Development Goals?</div>

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Benno Hansen on 07 Feb 10

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A Battle That Revolutionized Computer: Traveler's Tale - 1 views

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Four salvos later, more than half of the Eurisko ships had been sunk but their commander, Douglas B. Lent, was preparing to accept the enemy's offer of surrender. Despite its huge losses, the lumbering Eurisko fleet had destroyed all but one of the opposition's highly vaunted high-tech ships. The battle had ended.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Four salvos later, more than half of the Eurisko ships had been sunk but their commander, Douglas B. Lent, was preparing to accept the enemy's offer of surrender. Despite its huge losses, the lumbering Eurisko fleet had destroyed all but one of the opposition's highly vaunted high-tech ships. The battle had ended.</div>

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Brian G. Dowling on 17 Jan 10

Looks like an interesting post but not seeing any connection to the Millennium Development Goals. If you are just trying to get exposure there are more efficient means. Join BlogCatalog and similar organizations or think about starting your own group. The purpose of starting a group on a particular issue is to stay focused as possible.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Looks like an interesting post but not seeing any connection to the Millennium Development Goals. If you are just trying to get exposure there are more efficient means. Join BlogCatalog and similar organizations or think about starting your own group. The purpose of starting a group on a particular issue is to stay focused as possible.</div>

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