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U.S. groups call for Obama leadership at world food summit

U.S. Groups Call for Leadership from the Obama Administration at the World Summit on Food Security

At the World Summit on Food Security in Rome, U.S. civil society organizations expressed concern with the Obama administration's support for increasing intensive, large-scale agriculture production and trade expansion as a solution to rising global hunger - failed approaches that have actually contributed to the global food crisis.

G-8 Ag Ministers' Support for Free Trade and Biotech Undermine Progress to Eradicate Hunger

At the first ever G-8 Farm Summit in Treviso, Italy, agriculture ministers pledged earlier this week to work toward alleviating poverty and hunger and to encourage sustainable food production.

Agriculture and Climate Change: An Agenda for Negotiation in Copenhagen

Suggested negotiating outcomes for Copenhagen from IFPRI.

Smart Guide to Minnesota Dairy Without rBGH

Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) was one of the first genetically engineered agriculture products and is a synthetic hormone given to dairy cows to force increased milk production. It can also cause udder infections leading to increased antibiotic use. rBGH also raises the levels of Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1) in cows and cow's milk.

La Farm Bill 2008 et l'Agenda de Doha

La Farm Bill y La Agenda De Doha

BIOFUELS DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OR STRENGTHENING CORPORATE CONTROL?

UNCTAD XII Civil society forum at the British Council Auditorium, GHANA will look at the impacts of biofuels on small and medium producers, consumers, and on the perspectives for sustainable development.

Ethanol and Land Use Changes

A respsone to the February 7, 2008 Science studies that examined the greenhouse gas (GHG) impact of land use changes caused by the growing demand for biofuels. Dr. Morris chalenges many of their assumptions and uses their own numbers to demonstrate that as of 2007 ethanhol was reducing GHG.