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“Organic agriculture is no longer a phenomenon in developed countries only, as it is commercially practiced in 120 countries, representing 31 million hectares and a market of US$ 40 billion in 2006,” FAO underlines in a paper Organic Agriculture and Food Security presented here at an International Conference on Organic Agriculture and Food Security (3-5 May 2007).
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 2nd April 07, Fidel Castro, CounterPunchMore than three billion people in the world are being condemend to a premature death from hunger and thirst. It is not an exaggeration; this is rather a conservative figure. I have meditated for quite a long time on that after the meeting held by President Bush with the US automakers. The sinister idea of turning foodstuffs into fuel was definitely established as the economic strategy of the US foreign policy on Monday, March 26th last. A wire service story issued by the AP literally reads: WASHINGTON (AP), March 26 - President Bush touted the benefits of "flexible fuel" vehicles running on ethanol and biodiesel on Monday, meeting with automakers to boost support for his energy plans. Bush said a commitment by the leaders of the domestic auto industry to double their production of flex-fuel vehicles could help motorists shift away from gasoline and reduce the nation's reliance on imported oil. |
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18th March 07 - Press Release, World Food Program James T. Morris, Executive Director of WFP, told a US Senate hearing on food aid Thursday that conquering hunger was critical to achieving peace and prosperity in the future. |
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 13th March 07 - Aseem Shrivastava, STWR
Read Part 1 here
“… the western economic model is not going to work for China. All they're doing is what we've already done, so you can't criticise them for that. But what you can say is, it's not going to work. And if it doesn't work for China, by 2031 it won't work for India, which by then will have an even larger population, nor for the other three billion people in the developing countries.
"And in some way it will not work for the industrialised countries either, because in the incredibly integrated global economy, we all depend on the same oil and the same grain.
"The bottom line… is that we're going to have to develop a new economic model. Instead of a fossil-fuel based, automobile-centred, throw-away economy we will have to have a renewable-energy based, diversified transport system, and comprehensive reuse and recycle economies. If we want civilisation to survive, we will have to have that. Otherwise civilisation will collapse."
- Lester Brown, leading environmentalist, quoted in The Independent, Oct 19, 2005 |
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 12th March 07 - Bob St.Peter, Common Dreams
Since the beginning of the Green Revolution five decades ago, the standard line from industry and government has been: "We need industrial agriculture to feed the world." The producers of chemical pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers; the designers and patent owners of hybrid and genetically-engineered seeds; the farm machinery suppliers; the shipping conglomerates that control the flow of food; and the governmental and non-governmental food policy makers have all been in agreement about their great beneficence. Sure they make billions of dollars and control the food supply, but don't worry, it's for our own good. In fact, they're doing us a favor. Without high-tech advancements in food production, aka "progress", food would cost too much and poor people throughout the world would remain hungry because, their logic apparently concludes, they can't very well feed themselves. |
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It is turning out to be as unreliable as the marriage vow: till death do us apart. The new buzz on the economic horizon -- public-private partnership – too is a marriage of convenience. The moment the dominant partner – private sector in this case – finds the going tough, it leaves the public in a lurch.
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30th Jan 07 - Rafiqul Islam Azad, The New Nation
Speakers at an international workshop in Chennai, India yesterday stressed the need for formulating an strategy at aggregate level to ensure food security across the globe.
They also called governments concerned for taking policy to ensure food for all in line with the Millennium Development Goal (MDG).
The four-day workshop on "Food Insecurity: A Great Threat to Human Security", organised jointly by International Student Young Pugwash (ISYP) and MS Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) was inaugurated by ISYP President Prof MS Swaminathan. |
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