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		<title>we moved</title>
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		<title>Public fury halts biofuel onslaught on farmers</title>
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Tanzania has suspended investments worth millions of dollars after a storm of protest over the eviction of farmers to make way for biofuels. The country will not start any new agrofuel project before the government reviews the selection criteria for each investment.  The government has also halted allocation of huge chunks of land [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=192&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>E-Fuel Leads Organic Fuel Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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by Staff  Writers &#8211; biofueldaily.com
Sacramento CA (SPX) Jun 05,  2009
The E-Fuel  Corporation, joined by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, will unveil  the final production model of the E-Fuel MicroFueler, the world&#8217;s first home  ethanol system, at the California State Capitol. 
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		<title>UN Announces Launch Of World’s First Tuition-Free, Online University</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/un-announces-launch-of-world%e2%80%99s-first-tuition-free-online-university/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[UN ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF WORLD’S FIRST TUITION-FREE, ONLINE  UNIVERSITY
UN News Centre
May 19, 2009
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A leading arm of the United Nations working to spread the  benefits of information technology today announced the launch of the first ever  tuition-free online university.
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		<title>Jatropha: Possible Jet Fuel but Difficult to Scale Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;If you had not gathered this before, then you should know that I have been  favorably impressed with the potential of algae as a future source of biofuels.  However I recognize that there is a considerable amount of research and business  development and growth that will have to occur before such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=186&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Debt slavery on the rise in Brazilian sugarcane plantations: report</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Brazil, a  report issued by the Pastoral Land Commission of Brazil, created by the Catholic  Bishops of Brazil, revealed that debt slavery cases in 2008 rose to 280, up  six percent from 2007. The UN International Labor Organization estimated in 2003  that between 25,000 and 40,000 Brazilians live in debt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=184&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New land grab website</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GRAIN is launching today a new website that offers the most comprehensive  information tool on the global land grab for outsourced food production:  http://farmlandgrab.org.
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		<title>waste gasification process &#8211; Converting Garbage into Fuel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technology Review has an article on a new waste gasification process &#8211; Converting Garbage into Fuel.
Waste gasification, a process for converting garbage into fuel and electricity without incinerating it, may be a step closer to large-scale commercialization. Last week, Houston&#8217;s Waste Management, a major garbage-collection and -disposal company, announced a joint venture with InEnTec, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=179&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biopiracy, GM Seeds and Rural India &#8211; or: why &#8220;Over 100,000 farmers have committed suicide&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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by Priya Kumar - Global  Research, June 2, 2009
 
Introduction 
The reality for the average Indian remains the same:  agricultural cultivation and the ability to farm is the bedrock of rural living.  With its historical practices, values, and communal sentiments of respect,  cultivation and the practice of farming has embedded roots. Farming for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=176&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monsanto’s Terminator Making a Comeback?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 08:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara H. Peterson &#8211; http://farmwars.info/?p=845
Monsanto and its cohorts in crime promised us that they would not be using Terminator technology called GURT, or genetic use restricted technology. In fact, the United Nations actually issued a moratorium on the project. So we’re safe, right? Wrong.
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		<title>Africa almost giving land away, says UN</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 06:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ByJavier Blas in London - FT  May 24 2009 22:05
African countries are giving away vast tracts of farmland to other countries and investors almost for free, with the only benefits consisting of vague promises of jobs and infrastructure, according to a report published on Monday.
“Most of the land deals documented by this study involved no or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=170&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More renewable than conventional energy added in EU and USA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 13:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More renewable energy than conventional power capacity was added in 2008 in both the European Union and United States for the first time ever, according to the latest Renewables Global Status Report from the Renewable Energy Policy Network (REN21).
Global power capacity from new renewable energy sources (excluding large hydro) reached 280,000 megawatts (MW) in 2008 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=167&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Renewables Surge Despite Economic Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 13:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2008 figures are in from the new REN 21 Renewables Global Status Report: Renewable power capacity (excluding large hydropower) increased a hefty 16 percent last year, which is remarkable given that world oil use actually declined. Growth in some renewable sectors was even more impressive.  Biodiesel production increased 34 percent, and solar power [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=166&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/could-food-shortages-bring-down-civilization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the May 2009 Scientific American Magazine
Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?
The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=civilization-food-shortages
By Lester R. Brown
Key Concepts
    * Food scarcity and the resulting higher food prices are pushing poor countries into chaos.
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		<title>The Tragedy of Farmers Suicides in India</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/the-tragedy-of-farmers-suicides-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Huffingtonpost:
&#8220;Last week, a blog I wrote entitled 1500 Farmers Commit Suicide: A Wake Up Call for Humanity was  virally shared online, and was the featured story on the home page of Huffington Post. Referencing a story from The Independent that was vague on details and called them  &#8220;mass&#8221; suicides, undoubtedly, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=162&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>India&#8217;s &#8216;Green Revolution&#8217; Heading For Collapse</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2009/04/14/indias-green-revolution-heading-for-collapse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Eric deCarbonnel - MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2009

 
&#8220;NPR reports that &#8216;Green Revolution&#8217; Trapping India&#8217;s Farmers In Debt.
(emphasis mine) [my comment]
&#8216;Green Revolution&#8217; Trapping India&#8217;s Farmers In Debt
by Daniel Zwerdling

Morning Edition, April 14, 2009 · As the world&#8217;s population surges, the international community faces a pressing problem: How will it feed everybody?

Until recently, people thought India had an answer.
Farmers in the state of Punjab abandoned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=160&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study shows bioenergy benefits for rural poor</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/study-shows-bioenergy-benefits-for-rural-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 
Published Apr. 13, 2009
 
Bioenergy, when produced on a small-scale in local communities, can play a significant role in rural development in poor countries, according to a new report jointly published by FAO and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID).  The study, “Small Scale Bioenergy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=156&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/maker-faire-africa-mfa-a-celebration-of-african-ingenuity-innovation-and-invention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food Production</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/catastrophic-fall-in-2009-global-food-production/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Eric deCarbonnel &#8211; Marketskeptics
After reading about the droughts in two major agricultural countries, China and Argentina, I decided to research the extent other food producing nations were also experiencing droughts. This project ended up taking a lot longer than I thought. 2009 looks to be a humanitarian disaster around much of the world
To understand the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=146&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AGRICULTURE-ETHIOPIA: Can Foreign-Owned Farms Solve Food Crisis?</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/agriculture-ethiopia-can-foreign-owned-farms-solve-food-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ADDIS ABABA, Dec 13 (IPS) -  &#8230;The long term Agricultural Development Led Industrialization (ADLI) strategy  adopted in 1992 largely aims at transforming the economy by investing in  strengthening nine million small-scale farmers.
But the government’s ambitious target of harvesting 28 million tonnes of  cereals in the first three quarters of the 2007/2008 budget [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=141&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waste coffee grounds turned into biodiesel</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/waste-coffee-grounds-turned-into-biodiesel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
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From biodieselnow.com  A study in the online journal of the American Chemical  Society’s (ACS) Journal of  Agricultural and Food Chemistry, reports that waste coffee grounds can  provide a cheap, abundant, and environmentally friendly source of biodiesel fuel  for powering cars and trucks. The study by Mano Misra, Susanta Mohapatra, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=138&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thought for Food</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/thought-for-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Challenges of Coping with Soaring Food Prices
This paper analyzes the causes of rising food commodities prices. It discusses the role played by structural idiosyncratic and macroeconomic factors such as the depreciation of the dollar and the reduction of US interest rates after mid-June 2007. The author also examines how governments have been coping with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=136&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poisoning Africa</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/poisoning-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developed countries produce more toxic waste than they are willing to handle and the price of unsustainable development is being paid by the poorest populations on the globe, Edoardo Totolo writes for ISN Security Watch.
By Edoardo Totolo for ISN Security Watch &#8211; Full article here
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		<title>Bioenergy is not to blame for hunger in the world</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/bioenergy-is-not-to-blame-for-hunger-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;&#8221;For years, the campaign against bioenergy has been orchestrated by the old  oil industry and many environmental associations and church relief organisations  have been taken in by it. According to a study by “Union of Concerned  Scientists” Exxon Mobil for example, has donated more than 16 million US-Dollars  to 43 “climate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=129&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Land Giveaway: Neo-Colonialism by Invitation</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/the-great-land-giveaway-neo-colonialism-by-invitation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Colonial style empire-building is making a huge comeback
by James Petras &#8211; Global Research, December 1, 2008
&#8220;The deal South Korea’s Daewoo Logistics is negotiating with the Madagascar Government looks rapacious…The Madagascan case looks neo-colonial…The Madagascan people stand to lose half of their arable land.&#8221; Financial Times Editorial, November 20, 2008
&#8220;Cambodia is in talks with several [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=126&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An £800 gadget that makes water straight out of thin air &#8216;could help millions&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/an-800-gadget-that-makes-water-straight-out-of-thin-air-could-help-millions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A gadget which makes water out of thin air could become the greatest household invention since the microwave.  Using the same technology as a de-humidifier,the Water Mill is able to create a ready supply of drinking water by capturing it from an unlimited source -the air. 
The company behind the machine says not only does it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=124&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kissinger’s 1974 Plan for Food Control Genocide</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/kissinger%e2%80%99s-1974-plan-for-food-control-genocide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article appeared as part of a feature in the December 8, 1995 issue of Executive Intelligence Review, and was circuclated extensively by the Schiller Insitute Food for Peace Movement. It is reprinted here as part of the package: “Who Is Responsible for the World Food Shortage?”



Kissinger’s 1974 Plan for Food Control Genocide

by Joseph Brewda
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		<title>Descrambling the &#8216;Food Crisis&#8217;, By George Caffentzis</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/descrambling-the-food-crisis-by-george-caffentzis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Submitted by mute on Tuesday, 26 August, 2008 &#8211; 11:10
When the world&#8217;s hedge funds turned from real estate to grain  speculation the poor picked up the tab. But the food bubble was no accident,  argues George Caffentzis, it was class war


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		<title>Transforming the Global Economy: Solutions for a Sustainable World</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/transforming-the-global-economy-solutions-for-a-sustainable-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan  George &#8211; 15 November 2008 
The  crisis that we are seeing today is not only the financial crisis &#8211; this is only  one aspect of a much bigger systemic crisis that encompasses the social crisis,  or crisis of inequality, the financial and the ecological crises, says Susan  George in this video [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=115&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clean energy investment falls sharply</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/clean-energy-investment-falls-sharply/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Investment in low-carbon technologies is suffering its first reversal after  several years of record growth, as the financial crisis dims the sector&#8217;s  prospects.
Source (Financial Times)
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		<title>We told you so&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/we-told-you-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our project proposal we advised against the risks of large-scale investments in biofuel production -risks related to the (re)making of a plantation economy based on monocolture. This article is about the realization of our easy &#8220;prophecy&#8221;:  http://www.physorg.com/news145096760.html
extract: &#8220;in Wolaytta, where nearly half of the two-million population do not have enough  to eat, several [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=109&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WorldChanging: Elephant Pump</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/worldchanging-elephant-pump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Jamais Cascio - July 23, 2005 1:35 PM


Real globalism: a 2,000 year old Chinese design is now helping to bring clean water to poor rural Zimbabweans through the efforts of an Englishman.
Rope pumps have been around for centuries, emerging first in China. A loop of rope, if driven at sufficient speed, can pull water up from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=107&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Agriculture &#8211; Meeting Food Security Needs, Addressing Climate Change Challenges</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/sustainable-agriculture-meeting-food-security-needs-addressing-climate-change-challenges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lim Li Ching
Lim Li Ching, is a Senior Fellow at the  Oakland Institute and works with the biosafety programme at Third World Network  (TWN), an international NGO based in Malaysia. 
Introduction
The challenges facing agriculture today are immense. Of immediate concern is  the global increase in food prices, starkly brought home by reports [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=105&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Everyday Technologies with world-saving potential</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/10-everyday-technologies-with-world-saving-potential/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8230;In the real world, technologies that are affordable and practical are not so simple to create, but they can make a huge impact on people’s lives. Instead of calling on complex solutions (reliant on engines and imported resources) for low-tech problems (such as cooking and lighting), some researchers are now developing what they call “confluent” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=100&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eight nations warn EU over biofuel barriers</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/eight-nations-warn-eu-over-biofuel-barriers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight developing nations warned the European Union on Thursday they could file a  World Trade Organisation complaint over what they see as unfair barriers being  raised against their biofuels.The EU, which is currently fine-tuning its biofuel regulations, should steer  away from dictating where developing nations can grow biofuels and where they  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=98&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deserts could solve the energy crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Age has an article on calls to power Australia using solar  thermal power and geothermal  power from the dead heart &#8211; Running  on empty: deserts could solve energy crisis.
more: http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2008/11/deserts-could-solve-energy-crisis.html
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		<title>Paris Declaration on aid a form of collective colonialism by donors</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Yash Tandon    &#8211; http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&#38;task=view&#38;id=9072&#38;Itemid=5821
August 1, 2008: At first glance, the Paris Declaration (PD) looks benign. It recognises faults of the present system, and sets out sensible principles. Why, then, are the developing countries not all that excited? Many have signed on to the PD, but apparently without fully analysing the implications of its proposals. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=93&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The (Not-So) Sudden Crisis of the Global Food Ecomony</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/the-not-so-sudden-crisis-of-the-global-food-ecomony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Tony Weis &#8211; Canadian Dimension magazine, July/August 2008 
A Long-Term, Slow-Motion Crisis
The current rapid rise in food prices is both a manifestation and
magnification of the contradictions of the global food economy. The
global food economy is immensely imbalanced and unstable. In 2006,
before food prices began to rise, 854 million people suffered from
chronic hunger and malnourishment, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=90&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Agro-Profiteering and Predictable Food Scarcity</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/agro-profiteering-and-predictable-food-scarcity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Human Right to Eat 
By JOAN P. MENCHER 
Somini Sengupta&#8217;s front-page article, &#8220;India&#8217;s Growth Outstrips Crops&#8221; (New York Times, June 22, 2008) points out various reasons for the current shortage of staple foods in India&#8211; including rapidly sinking water tables, inadequate government investment in agriculture and especially in irrigation and access to loans for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=88&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Secret report: biofuel (made in U.S.A.) caused food crisis</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/07/05/secret-report-biofuel-made-in-usa-caused-food-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internal World Bank study delivers blow to plant energy drive



Aditya Chakrabortty
The Guardian, Friday July 4, 2008 - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jul/03/biofuels.renewableenergy 



Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% &#8211; far more than previously estimated &#8211; according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.
The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=86&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>820 milioni di persone sottonutrite: più della metà lavora proprio nella produzione di cibo.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROMA - ...
Nei paesi in via di sviluppo 820 milioni di persone sono sottonutriti e,
nota la Fao, al danno si aggiunge la beffa: metà di questi affamati sono
contadini, il 30 per cento pescatori e gente che abita in campagna, il 20
per cento poveri urbanizzati. Dunque più di metà della popolazione che non
ha abbastanza cibo è [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=85&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sustainable Bioenergy potential</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/sustainable-bioenergy-potential/</link>
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California, United States [RenewableEnergyWorld.com]
Biofuels can be a sustainable part of the world&#8217;s energy future, especially if bioenergy agriculture is developed on currently abandoned or degraded agricultural lands, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University. Using these lands for energy crops, instead of converting existing croplands or clearing new land, avoids competition with food [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=83&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GREEN ‘GOLD RUSH’</title>
		<link>http://parnet.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/green-%e2%80%98gold-rush%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probably the most telling statistic in a new report on global New Energy investment trends: Despite the impact of the credit crisis on financial markets, overall investment in New Energy during the first half of 2008 has been just ABOVE levels in the first half of 2007 (a boom year).
Achim Steiner, Executive Director, United Nations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=82&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CRUDE OIL : THE SUPPLY OUTLOOK</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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The main purpose of this paper is to project the future availability of crude oil up to 2030. Since crude oil is the most important energy carrier at a global scale and since all kinds of transport rely heavily on oil, the future availability of crude oil is of paramount interest. At present, widely diverging [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=81&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UN reports big jump in &#8216;green energy&#8217; investment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UNITED NATIONS (AP) Global investors plowed $148 billion into new wind, solar and other alternative energy assets last year, in what the United Nations describes as a &#8221;green energy gold rush&#8221; gaining speed the last several years.
The spike in investment 60 percent above the $92.6 billion spent on such projects in 2006 reflects sharply rising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=80&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New UN report urges companies to boost business with world’s poor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1 July 2008 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has encouraged companies to expand beyond traditional business practices and offered them strategies and tools to bring in the world’s poor as partners for economic growth, in a new report released today.Part of UNDP’s Growing Inclusive Market’s initiative, “Creating Value for All: Strategies for Doing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=78&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some 1.5 bln people may starve due to land erosion &#8211; FAO</title>
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MILAN (Reuters) &#8211; Rising land degradation reduces crop yields and may threaten food security of about a quarter of the world&#8217; population, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Wednesday.
Food security has been highlighted in recent months as soaring crop prices resulting from poor harvests, low stocks, high fuel prices and rising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=77&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quest for renewable energy is new ‘green gold rush’: UNEP</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nairobi: The world is enjoying a “green energy gold rush”, the UN’s environmental agency said as it published a report outlining a 60% hike in investment in renewable energy in 2007.
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) study, published in Nairobi, said more than $148 billion of new funds were ploughed into the quest for cleaner energy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=76&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Outside the Barrel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From: Thinking Outside the Barrel About OPEC and the Oil Weapon



By: Anne Korin
Cutting Edge June 30th 2008



 
&#8230;Expanding U.S. fuel choices to include biofuels imported from developing countries can actually help ameliorate world poverty and hunger. Sugar, from which ethanol can be cheaply and efficiently produced, is now grown in 100 countries—many of which are poor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=74&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Africa: Summit to Debate Soaring Food, Oil Prices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Africa needs to urgently address the issues of soaring food and oil prices and take appropriate measures as they negatively impact on poor households, said African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping.&#8221;We need to discuss and analyse all possible solutions on these sky-rocketing prices including transport costs which compound food prices,&#8221; said Mr Ping while [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parnet.wordpress.com&blog=4042488&post=73&subd=parnet&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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