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  • Bird Flu Remains A Global Threat
    7 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Oxford Analytica 02.07.07, 6:00 AM ET
    Authorities in the United Kingdom on Feb. 5 completed a cull of turkeys on a commercial poultry farm, following confirmation that H5N1 avian influenza had entered the flock. Recent research on the "rescued" 1918 strain of human influenza has revealed how it and H5N1 kill by irreparably damaging the lungs, and what parts of the virus structure are required to make it highly transmissible.
    The threat remains of a human pandemic arising from avian (…)

  • The World Bank is deporting farmers form their farmland
    22 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Two Via Campesina activists were detained by the Singapore authorities last night at Changi international airport and were deported this morning to Jakarta. They were interrogated for 14 hours continuously. They were not doing anything criminal and they had come to Singapore without any intention of disturbing the people of Singapore. But the officers kept saying that they were just obeying orders. Irma Yanni and Achmad Ya’kub, both working for the Federation of Indonesian Peasant Unions (…)

  • VENEZUELA: THE GREENING OF THE REVOLUTION
    9 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    VENEZUELA: THE GREENING OF THE REVOLUTION
    Urban Gardening and Self-Sufficiency in Caracas
    by April M. Howard, Toward Freedom
    In the middle of the modern, concrete city of Caracas, Norali Verenzuela is standing in a garden dressed in jeans and work boots. She is the director of the Organopónico Bolivar I, the first urban, organic garden to show its green face in the heart of the city.
    One afternoon while international crowds swarmed the city for the World Social Forum, I visited the (…)

  • Record-low stocks bring world rice price to the boil 
    16 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Record-low stocks bring world rice price to the boil Jeff Wilson and Saijel Kishan
    Posted to the web on: 15 August 2006 Bloomberg
    THE world may soon pay more than ever for its most abundant food: rice.
    A record crop this year in a market anticipating rising production costs will do little to slow the rally for the staple diet of 3-billion people throughout the world.
    As China, the top consumer, and Vietnam, one of the food’s biggest exporters, continue to plough up their paddies, (…)

  • H5N1 Bird Flu in Michigan
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    H5N1 Bird Flu in Michigan Recombinomics Commentary August 14, 2006
    White House press secretary Tony Snow has announce a press conference of H5N1 in mute swans in Michigan. His comments indicated it was low pathogenic avian influenza and is likely to have strong relationship to the H5N1 detected in Manitoba last August. The H5N1 was part of an expanded surveillance program across southern Canada. H5 was detected across Canada and was found in 24% of young mallards tested in British (…)

  • Eating the Amazon: The fight to curb corporate destruction
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Huge soya farms financed by Cargill, the largest privately owned company in the world, are the rainforest’s new worst enemy
    By Daniel Howden
    The scars are unmistakably man made. Hard-edged squares and rectangles,hundreds of acres across, hacked and burned out of the Amazon rainforest. The dark green of the canopy is lacerated with thin red lines - the illegal dirt roads that stitch together these giant clearings.
    Seen from the air, this fearful symmetry marks out the battle lines of an (…)

  • Bolivia head starts land handout
    5 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By James Read
    Bolivia’s president has given more than 30,000 square km (18,600 sq miles) of land to indigenous peasant communities under a programme of agrarian reform.
    Evo Morales launched the programme after landowners walked out of talks with the government, warning they would take action to defend their estates.
    Thousands of peasants gathered in the centre of Santa Cruz to see Mr Morales launch his agrarian revolution.
    They cheered and waved rainbow flags symbolising indigenous (…)

  • Morales Government Tackles Agrarian Reform
    28 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Roger` Burbach
    The government of Evo Morales is tackling the explosive issue of agrarian reform less than three weeks after nationalizing Bolivia’s natural gas and petroleum resources. In a country riveted with glaring land inequities, Vice-President Alvaro Garcia Linera proclaimed that large tracts of agricultural land would be redistributed to “peasants and indigenous communities.” While “productive lands” will be exempted from expropriation, Garcia stated that this would not be the (…)

  • Sneak Attack on Organic Standards
    10 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    After 35 years of hard work, the US organic community has built a multi-billion dollar alternative to industrial agriculture. Now large corporations, aided and abetted by the USDA and members of Congress, are moving to lower organic standards and seize control. For the sake of the earth and the health of the people we must stop them.
    http://www.democracyinaction.org/di...

  • Help protect organic foods
    4 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The USDA is proposing to amend the National Organic Program regulations to reflect the legislative changes made in Congress.
    The USDA proposal could allow:
    · Young dairy cows to be treated with antibiotics and fed genetically engineered feed prior to being converted to organic production.
    · Numerous synthetic substances, including over 500 food contact substances, to be used in organic foods without public review and approval by the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB).
    TELL USDA (…)