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AGRICULTURE
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Animal Welfare
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Cruelty in the food chain
FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists
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Open file 1893
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Starbucks and the supply chain for milk
Dear Starbucks, Let’s Get Real ... a message from The Organic Consumers Association (OCA)
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Open file 8875
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Cacao . Cocoa
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Agriculture ... Cocoa ... Child Labor in West Africa
Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector of West Africa ... A synthesis of findings in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria
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Open file 3674
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Agriculture ... Cocoa ... Child Labor in West Africa
A 2005 report on the state of child labor in cocoa growing in West Africa ... Child Labor in West African Cocoa Production: Issues and U.S. Policy
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Child Labor ... Africa ... Cocoa Growing
Working Towards Responsible Labour Standards for Cocoa Growing
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Open file 3672
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The International Cocoa Initiative
The International Cocoa Initiative was organized by the corporate organizations in the chocolate industry to address the problem of child labor in the industry ... some will argue this is merely a PR effort of little substance
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Open file 3673
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Child Labor
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Agriculture ... Cocoa ... Child Labor in West Africa
Child Labor in the Cocoa Sector of West Africa ... A synthesis of findings in Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Nigeria
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Open file 3674
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Agriculture ... Cocoa ... Child Labor in West Africa
A 2005 report on the state of child labor in cocoa growing in West Africa ... Child Labor in West African Cocoa Production: Issues and U.S. Policy
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Open file 3675
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Child Labor ... Africa ... Cocoa Growing
Working Towards Responsible Labour Standards for Cocoa Growing
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Open file 3672
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Climate Change
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The decline of agriculture?
AJE Feature ... Climate change induced extreme weather events and shifting weather patterns are challenging farmer's ability to feed us.
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Open file 0422
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Coffee
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Coffee ... Who dominates the industry?
Starbucks 'blocks' Ethiopian coffee bid ... Starbucks has been accused of preventing Ethiopia from trademarking its coffee, denying farmers potential income of about $94 million
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Open file 3451
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Conservation Agriculture
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Conservation Agriculture
The text of a Conservation Agriculture pamphlet used in Lesotho to improve agricultural yields
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Open file 600
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GMO
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GMO issues
The Indian government is preparing charges against Monsanto, the US-based company for appropriating indigenous farming techniques and knowledge to develop a genetically altered eggplant.
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Open file 2120
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Monsanto and GM seeds
GM crops promote superweeds, food insecurity and pesticides, say NGOs ... Report finds genetically modified crops fail to increase yields let alone solve hunger, soil erosion and chemical-use issues
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Open file 1424
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Monoculture
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Backing away from industrial monoculture
The One-Straw Revolution ... The seminal natural farming book, The One-Straw Revolution, by Masanobu Fukuoka, was published by Rodale Press in 1978.
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Open file 1595
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Organic Agraculture
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Organic Foods
Organic farmers beat US droughts ... Farmers say that they have fared better, thanks to alternative growing methods.
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Open file 3375
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Permaculture
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Permaculture guidance
Permaculture
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Open file 1203
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Permaculture
Bill Mollison in Australia ... In Grave Danger of Falling Food Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4
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Open file 1204
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Urban Permaculture (Part 1-6)
A series of videos about urban permaculture (Part 1-6)
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Open file 1205
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Sheep
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Australian Sheep
Australian sheep stranded in the Gulf ... Two vessels carrying more than 70,000 sheep refused permission to dock by Bahrain and Kuwait due to infection fears.
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Open file 3180
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Australian Sheep
There are two stories here: 2003: Sheep at sea find home at last ... 2006: Protests over Australian sheep export
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Open file 3181
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Sustainable Agraculture
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You can't buy a better agriculture
AJE Opinion ... With the Earth's cropland quickly eroding, a shift to perennials is needed for a sustainable food supply.
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Sustainable agriculture ... permaculture
What is permaculture?
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Sustainable Agriculture
Towards Permaculture Centres Worldwide ... Geoff Lawton explaining the need to establish self-sustaining Permaculture centres around the world.
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Sustainable Agriculture ... Aquaponics
Aquaponics Solves Agricultural Environmental Problems While Increasing the World’s Food Production
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Open file 995
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Why We Need Organic Sustainable Food Systems Now
Food-Futures-Now-2008 ... A 180 page report
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Agriculture/Sustainable-Agriculture/ISIS-TWN-Food-Futures-Now-2008.pdf'
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ISIS-TWN-Food-Futures-Now-2008
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Unilever-Sustainable-Agriculture-Code-2010
'http://truevaluemetrics.org/DBpdfs/Agriculture/Sustainable-Agriculture/Unilever-Sustainable-Agriculture-Code-2010.pdf'
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Unilever-Sustainable-Agriculture-Code-2010
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Bhutan
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Transition to organic
Navdanya from India Monitors progress of Bhutan's Transition to Organic ... collaboration with Samdrup Jonkhar Initiative (SJI)
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Open file 1930
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What farming methods are best in Africa
China's farming history misapplied in Africa ... Sub-Saharan Africa is being sold misguided agricultural policies based on hybrid seeds and chemical inputs.
| Open file 951
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Occupy Wall Street (OWS)
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Social Activism ... Occupy Movement
Feeding The 99%: How Co-ops Fuel Occupy Wall St.
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Open file 1597
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Social Activism ... Occupy Wall Street
Permaculture is a way to improve agriculture in a way that is about community more than corporate profit
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Open file 1598
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Social Activism ... Occupy Wall Street
GUERRILLA GARDENING ... Students from Sterling College in Vermont came down to Occupy Wall Street and showed us how to plant and sow seeds anywhere
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Open file 1599
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Starbucks
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Starbucks and the supply chain for milk
Dear Starbucks, Let’s Get Real ... a message from The Organic Consumers Association (OCA)
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Open file 8875
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Issue
Agriculture
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Basic observation
Agriculture is highly productive in the “north” and mainly subsistence in most of the “south”. Without improving productivity in agriculture there will always be relative poverty in rural communities in the “south”.
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Prevailing response
In many places there has been “investment” in support of subsistence agriculture. A lot of actions have removed initiative from the farmer and the community to organizations that have cost a lot and then failed to deliver anything of value.
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A better response
The farmer and the community have a vested interest in success. Many small initiatives that are priority from the community perspective can change performance and productivity. Community needs efficient access to resources that are needed to improve performance and their results.
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