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Dec 11, 2013

Rights to water and sanitation now legally binding

Shiney Varghese

On November 21, the U.N. General Assembly’s Third Committee (The Committee) adopted a resolution on “The human right to safe drinking water and sanitation.” All U.N. member states agreed that the rights to water and sanitation are derived from the right to an adequate standard of living.

Dec 9, 2013

Agroecology should be at the core of USDA’s mission

Dr. M. Jahi Chappell

The comment period recently closed on the USDA’s Research, Education, and Economics (REE) Action Plan Draft, which responded to informal and formal consultations with internal and external advisors and stakeholders, and “lessons learned from implementation of Farm Bill provisions.” I

Dec 6, 2013

Draft deal lays groundwork for future negotiations on exempting food security programs from WTO disputes

Shefali Sharma

Update: The ministerial text was accepted on Saturday morning with minor changes to assuage Cuba's concerns. See a video report from Shefali Sharma regarding Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Bolivia's move to block consensus on the agreement on the morning of December 7. 

Dec 4, 2013

Let’s focus on environment and diet to help prevent autism

Now that autism affects one in fifty school-aged kids—up from 1 in 150 as measured in 2000—we should be asking ourselves some pretty serious questions about why so many kids have autism. Sure, we know that the health and educational systems are better at diagnosing autism, but better diagnosis explains only part of the increase.

Dec 3, 2013

Autism: What Do Environment and Diet Have to Do With It?

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