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April 25, 2008 |
Food Crisis Starts Eclipsing Climate Change Worries
New York Sun
The campaign against climate change could be set back by the global food crisis, as foreign populations turn against measures to use foodstuffs as substitutes for fossil fuels. |
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April 23, 2008 |
The Role of Speculators in the Global Food Crisis
Speigel Online
Commodity speculation spread long ago from standard products like oil and gold to anything edible and available for trade on the Chicago Futures Exchange. These days there are futures contracts for everything from wheat to oranges to pork bellies. |
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April 18, 2008 |
Rice joins oil in all-time-high price spikes
Globe and Mail (UK)
U.S. rice futures set a fresh record high on Friday, surging by more than 4 per cent as a scramble to bolster stockpiles of Asia's staple food showed little signs of abating. |
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April 17, 2008 |
Global hunger provoking riots
Int'l Herald Tribune
Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti's presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and police. Hunger sent the country's prime minister packing. |
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April 15, 2008 |
Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear
Miscellaneous
Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination. |
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April 15, 2008 |
Fuel Choices, Food Crises and Finger-Pointing
New York Times
The idea of turning farms into fuel plants seemed, for a time, like one of the answers to high global oil prices and supply worries. That strategy seemed to reach a high point last year when Congress mandated a fivefold increase in the use of biofuels. |
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April 13, 2008 |
World Bank urges action on food prices
CNNMoney
The president of the World Bank on Sunday urged immediate action to deal with rapidly rising food prices that have caused hunger and deadly violence in several countries. |
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February 09, 2008 |
France Halts Genetically Modified Corn
Miscellaneous
The French government on Saturday suspended the use of genetically modified corn crops in France while it awaits EU approval for a full ban. |
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January 14, 2008 |
Biofuels Backlash Prompts Europeans to Backpedal
Miscellaneous
Earlier this decade, the European Union (EU) set a goal of increasing renewable energy use by 20 percent by 2020, compared to 1990 levels, with ethanol made from so-called "biofuels" making up 10 percent of all transport fuels. |
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November 22, 2007 |
WTO gives EU more time on genetically modified foods
Int'l Herald Tribune
Adding to the uncertainty over European policies toward genetically modified foods, the World Trade Organization said Thursday that the European Union would be given more time to end blockages on imports of engineered foods like corn. |
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