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November 23, 2001: World Grain Harvest Falling Short by 54 Million Tons
World Grain Harvest Falling Short by 54 Million Tons November 23, 2001-3 Copyright © 2001 Earth Policy Institute World Grain Harvest Falling Short by 54 Million Tons Water Shortages Contributing to Shortfall Lester R. Brown As Americans prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving and another bountiful harvest, there are signs that the world harvest ...
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Eco-Economy Indicators: GRAIN HARVEST - Earth Policy Institute Resources on Food and Agriculture
World Food Prices Rising (28 April 2004) China's Shrinking Grain Harvest (March 2004) Wakeup Call on the Food Front (16 December 2003) World Facing Fourth Consecutive Grain Harvest Shortfall (17 September 2003) Record Temperatures Shrinking World Grain Harvest ...
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Optimum Population Trust: News release 2 November 2006
Earth Policy Institute, this year’s world grain harvest is projected to fall short of consumption for the sixth time in the last seven years. World stockpiles at the end of the crop ... “creeping environmental deterioration.”* However, desertification and soil erosion are increasingly serious problems in the developed world, with 30 per cent of the US hit by desertification, a third of Spain at ...
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GRAIN | Publications | All GRAIN's publications
January 2008 - GRAIN Briefing) Whose harvest? The politics of organic seed certification (03 January 2008 - GRAIN Briefing) A new Green Revolution for Africa? (17 December 2007 - GRAIN Briefing) Une ... 2002) Seedling - More summits and circuses (July 2002) WIPO moves toward 'world' patent system (10 July 2002 - GRAIN Briefing) Seedling - Farida Akhtar - founder of UBINIG (July 2002) Seedling ...
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Environment News Service News Index March 2004
Pacific Northwest 15 Years Later, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Lingers Bulgarian GMO Protesters: Third World War Comes in Your Plate Tourists Invading Antarctica of Rare Beauty AmeriScan: March 24, ... Senate Europe's New Chemicals Policy Hits Pacific Rim Resistance INSIGHTS: China's Shrinking Grain Harvest AmeriScan: March 23, 2004 Europe Funds Clean Water in Africa, Caribbean, Pacific Capital District ...
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China Olympics 2008 dumping illegal unsustainable timber USA furniture EU plywood finance subsidies import export Beijing Fujian CO2 Carbon Offset plantations
Ethnic minorities have also been adversely affected by policies which offered recent years' surplus grain harvest in exchange for re-forestation. Those accepting the offer unwittingly enable the state to ... the USA and during 2006, China overtook Japan (still the world leader in tropical timber imports) as the world's leading importer of timber. China's principal interest in importing ...
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Science in Society no.32 index
European levels, China would require nearly 40 percent of today’s global grain harvest. US Washington-based Worldwatch Institute commented in its State of the World 2006 ... talk. Eco-city and socialist village projects abound. China accounts for 80 percent of the world’s thermal photovoltaic market and 65 million square metres of solar panels have been ...
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Sven Hedin: Plague in Seistan
Sweden almost exterminating the population ? From certain old-established centres in the Old World this terrible epidemic seems, time after time, fortunately at long intervals, to have found its ... people, and rendered them more liable to disease. Under ordinary circumstances large quantities of the grain harvest are bought up by a few rich persons, who then raise the prices to many ...
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China as an Emerging Nation by Lindsey Grant
To phrase the point more starkly: perhaps one-third of the people in the more crowded and land-poor third world ... world grain exports. China's Agriculture Minister responded with an ambitious goal of avoiding imports by raising grain ...
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Wringing Out the World by Laura Orlando
A 1990 internal survey of World Bank hydroelectric dam projects (dams are often multipurpose, so ... irrigation more efficient, says Postel. Everyone involved, from finance to harvest, has a role in the transition. Access to credit, markets, ... rural communities. The consumer's job is to consume less grain-intensive and more water efficient food. Pork, for instance, ...
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