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November 2007

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11/28/2007 Più di 3 milioni di italiani hanno detto sì a un’agricoltura senza Ogm. È il primo risultato raggiunto dalla Consultazione nazionale sugli Ogm promossa dalla Coalizione 'ItaliaEuropa-Liberi da Ogm' che raccoglie 32 organizzazioni del mondo ambientalista, agricolo, dei consumatori e del volontariato. A metà novembre – riporta la Campagna che ha esteso la consultazione fino al 9 dicembre – sono stati più di 3 milioni i voti raccolti: la quasi totalità è favorevole ad un’agricoltura senza Ogm, mentre solo poco più di 17mila sono i contrari. Intanto l'Unione Europea ha ottenuto dal Wto una proroga fino all'inizio del 2008 sul bando all'importazione di prodotti geneticamente modificati. La disputa contrappone l'Ue a Stati Uniti, Canada e Argentina, paesi produttori di prodotti agricoli geneticamente modificati.
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Related: [Consumption] [Trade] [Environmental Activism] [Genetics] [Civil Society]
Protesta dei Sem Terra verso la Syngenta - da Cmi-Brazil
11/26/2007 Il movimento 'Via Campesina' accusa la multinazionale svizzera Syngenta di aver assoldato i pistoleiros della milizia privata NF responsabili dell'uccisione, il 21 ottobre scorso, di un attivista del Movimento dei Sem Terra e membro di Via Campesina, Valmir Mota de Oliveira, a Santa Tereza do Oeste nello stato brasiliano del Paranà. L'intervento delle milizia armata della NF è avvenuto poche ore dopo la rioccupazione da parte dei Sem Terra del terreno di sperimentazione di transgenici dalla multinazionale svizzera Syngenta oggetto dallo scorso anno di un contenzioso in quanto situato in un'area ai confini del Parco Nazionale di Iguaçu dichiarato dall'Unesco "Patrimonio dell'Umanità".
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Related: [Corporations] [Biodiversity] [Genetics] [Civil Rights] [Activism]
Image: Protesta dei Sem Terra verso la Syngenta - da Cmi-Brazil
More than a billion farmers can benefit from payment programs for environmental services
11/22/2007 Paying farmers for environmental services in developing countries can go a long way in mitigating effects of climate change, while also benefiting the billion plus poor who depend on farming for livelihood, claims a recent report by the Food and Agricultural Organization.
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Related: [South Asia] [Land] [Environment] [Climate Change] [Environmental Activism] [United Nations]
Image: More than a billion farmers can benefit from payment programs for environmental services
11/21/2007 Maailmanpankki vauhdittaa maatalouden paluuta köyhyydenvähentämistalkoisiin "hukattujen vuosikymmenien" jälkeen. Pankin vuosiraportti viittaa siihen, että pankin omakin politiikka olisi muuttumassa, todettiin äskettäin ulkoministeriön seminaarissa.
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From: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus
Related: [Development]
Image: © Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Whose grass is it anyway?
11/19/2007 There is nothing official about it. Yet, the ban on grazing imposed by local farmers in some villages of Ahmednagar in the Indian state of Maharashtra has led to remarkable results.
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From: OneWorld South Asia
Related: [India] [South Asia] [Land] [Conservation]
Image: Whose grass is it anyway?
Potret Kerusakan Hutan, Sumber:www.abc.net.au
11/14/2007 Kondisi kerusakan hutan di Blimbingsari, Melaya, Jembrana, Bali makin parah. Ini akibat penjarahan hutan di Blimbingsari yang kini sudah mencapai 10 hektar lebih. Jika kondisi ini dibiarkan, daerah ini akan hancur dan air laut tidak akan bisa ditekan. Jembrana lama-lama akan tenggelam
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Related: [Indonesia]
Image: Potret Kerusakan Hutan, Sumber:www.abc.net.au
A food market
11/12/2007 Food and Agricultural Organization’s latest prediction of high global prices of cereals in the coming year has led to debates on future prices of agricultural commodities in both rich and poor trading countries. With growing demand for food, feed and industrial use – many countries will pay more for importing cereals than they did before, even though they are expected to import less, the report says.
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Related: [Food] [Economy] [Trade] [United Nations]
Image: A food market
11/12/2007 Kymmenen vuoden aikana itsemurhan on tehnyt 150 000 intialaista viljelijää. Tilaston mukaan itsemurhat keskittyvät alueille, joissa viljellään vientiin tarkoitettuja, niin kutsuttuja rahakasveja.
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From: OneWorld South Asia
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11/12/2007 Of the hundred and fifty thousand suicides by farmers in India in the last decade, nearly two-thirds have occurred in the region where they have been engaged in growing cash crops. This region today has acquired a dubious distinction of ‘Special Elimination Zone’ or suicide SEZ. The Special Economic Zones are lands earmarked for industrial growth with massive subsidies granted to capitalists.
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11/07/2007 Susan Smith of the National Confectioners Association responds to OneWorld's article on fair trade chocolate for Halloween.
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11/07/2007 UNITED NATIONS, Nov 6 (IPS) - A long-held basic human right, the right to adequate food for the world's 854 million hungry people, is being threatened once again -- this time by the conversion of wheat, sugar, palm oil and maize into agricultural fuel.
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From: Inter Press Service (IPS)
Related: [Energy] [Food] [Renewable Energy]
Farmers need government protection
11/06/2007 Crop failures, rising debts and state apathy are making farmers take their own lives in the ‘prosperous’ Indian state of Gujarat. Debt-ridden families are now calling upon the government to compensate their losses.
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Related: [India] [South Asia] [Poverty] [Debt] [Governance]
Image: Farmers need government protection © Panos London
Wheat requires less irrigation with zero tillage method
11/06/2007 South Asian countries rely heavily on rainwater for irrigation. But with the employment of ‘zero tillage’ technique, the irrigation demand for rice and wheat farming has substantially come down.
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Related: [South Asia] [Land] [Conservation] [Soils]
Image: Wheat requires less irrigation with zero tillage method
Opium poppy is grown in southern Afghanistan
11/06/2007 A proposal to grow opium poppy for medical use by the Afghan Senlis Council and the European Parliament has led to outrage among narcotics experts and officials working to end the opium trade. Legalizing poppy production, they fear, will lead to further insecurity among people.
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Related: [Afghanistan] [South Asia] [Economy] [Narcotics] [Conflict] [Terrorism]
Image: Opium poppy is grown in southern Afghanistan © IRIN
Petani, Sumber:www.indocenter.co.id
11/05/2007 Kedaulatan pangan dapat membangun ekonomi kecil berbasis keluarga dan gotong royong. Secara sosial, akan terwujud keadilan sosial. Dalam perspektif lingkungan, emisi karbon dan perusakan alam bisa dikurangi dengan mengutamakan dan memenuhi kebutuhan pangan lokal.
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Related: [Indonesia]
Image: Petani, Sumber:www.indocenter.co.id
A natural farming workshop
11/02/2007 In the Indian state of Punjab, the natural farmers’ movement, Kheti Virasat Mission, is trying to rejuvenate land that has lost its fertility due to decades of chemical intensive farming.
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Related: [South Asia] [Land] [Conservation]
Image: A natural farming workshop
11/01/2007 Apre i battenti domani a Trento la terza edizione di "Fà la cosa giusta!", la fiera del consumo critico e degli stili di vita sostenibili. Con gli oltre 8.000 visitatori dello scorso anno si sta confermando un punto fermo del panorama fieristico trentino. La mostra mercato porterà anche quest’anno nelle strutture di Trento Fiere oltre 160 fra agricoltori biologici, botteghe del commercio equo, associazioni, cooperative sociali e aziende che propongono prodotti e servizi rispettosi dell’ambiente. Per i consumatori ma anche per le scuole, una occasione per incontrare aziende, progetti e buone prassi amministrative che sul territorio locale, ma non solo, stanno costruendo un’economia più attenta alle persone e all’ambiente.
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Related: [International Cooperation] [Economy] [Consumption] [Trade]

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