Food
Biotech industry accused of masking decline in GM crops
February 11, 2009Campaingers accused the biotech industry on Tuesday of using misleading figures to mask declining cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in Europe.
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Financial speculators and the food crisis
February 10, 2009Original source: DUBAI, 8 February 2009 (IRIN) - A food security expert has said that the involvement of financial markets in basic food commodities was the biggest factor in the worldwide food price hikes over the...
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UN calls for food aid from rich countries
January 29, 2009THE UN urged rich countries on Monday to stump up the aid that they pledged at a food crisis summit last year after riots had erupted in underdeveloped countries over soaring prices.
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Blogging from India #4 Communist Party of India vows fight on food prices
March 27, 2008HYDERABAD, India — The Communist Party of India began its five-day congress here March 23 in a pouring rain unusual for the season and this area which mostly does not get enough. But the rain nourished...
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Tyson workers vow to keep up fight
November 22, 2003“Another day longer, another day stronger.” That’s how striking Tyson Foods worker Sherri Anderson summed up the status of what is shaping up to be an epic labor battle. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney visited the picket...
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