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Land deals in Africa have led to a wild west - bring on the sheriff, says FAO - 1 views

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    Food and Agriculture Organisation chief José Graziano da Silva demands high noon on land grabs that jeopardise food security
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Fred Pearce: Land grabbing has more of an impact on the world's poor than climate change - 0 views

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    Over the last few years, I became aware of this hidden revolution taking place around the world: the buying up of vast swaths of land by foreign entities from beneath its occupiers. Soaring grain prices in 2007/2008 led to countries such as Saudi Arabia and South Korea worrying about their national food security and buying up overseas land.
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International Energy Agency fears higher emissions if nuclear power is cut - 0 views

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    Reducing nuclear will cost much more, be less sustainable and there will be less energy security says IEA chief Nobuo Tanaka
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'We will solve problems around food and population from the bottom up' - 0 views

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    The head of the UN's Population Fund, Babatunde Osotimehin, talks to Annie Kelly about the key issues driving the debate around population and food security
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Warm, wet - and warring? - 0 views

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    Does a changing climate mean an increase in conflict and civil unrest around the world? Some of the world's military authorities believe it might - elements in the US armed forces hierarchy, for example, see climate change as a security issue for just that reason.
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