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How would our global food system be different if we started with a human rights perspective that guarantees everyone the right to adequate food? This is the fundamental question asked by IATP's Carin Smaller and Sophia Murphy in a new paper, Bridging the Divide: a human rights vision for global food trade.

Between April 2007 and April 2008, the global food price index increased by 85 percent, according to a UN agency. Many reasons for the rise in food prices have been cited, including: the increase in oil prices, growing demand from countries like India and China, climate-related weather events and biofuel expansion.

Tom Kollasch has a great job. As manager of Willapa Programs for The Nature Conservancy (TNC), he's one of the people that gets to run all over the Conservancy's Ellsworth Creek Preserve, one of the jewels of Southwest Washington. The 8000 acres of forest includes old growth cedar and spruce, marbled murrelet habitat, bear, elk and coho and chum runs, to name a few highlights.

The B.C. forests ministry has produced a map of thousands of trees that the public and loggers are urged to avoid due to arsenic residue from the application of a pine-beetle pesticide no longer used in Canada.

Many private forest owners are facing a tough decision during the economic downturn: Sell timber or sell the land. As the value of timber declines, many owners can make more money selling their land for subdivisions than harvesting it, said Matt Donegan, co-president of Forest Capital Partners.