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NEWS ARCHIVE: food 2009-03-14 - United States - food Helping Food Safety, Or Helping Monsanto? The New York Times reported that, according to President Obama, the government’s failure to inspect 95 percent of food processing plants "is a hazard to the public health." &ldqu 2009-03-09 - European Union - food Ministers back right to refuse GM crop cultivation Attempts by the European Commission to force Austria and Hungary to allow the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) maize on their territory were rejected yet again by EU environment ministers. &nb 2009-02-16 - International - food Fishers Learn to Share Shrinking Catch With the oceans in crisis, where will our fish - an important source of protein for billions of people - come from? Innovative new fisheries management tools called "catch share" have begun 2009-01-03 - United Kingdom - food Food needs 'fundamental rethink' A sustainable global food system in the 21st Century needs to be built on a series of "new fundamentals", according to a leading food expert. Tim Lang warned that the current system, d 2008-11-17 - International - food Food for Thought: Eating Local in the Face of a Global Food Crisis Last weekend the leaders representing the 19 biggest economies in the world and the European Union met in Washington D.C. at the G20 Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy. Although t 2008-08-09 - United Kingdom - food British GMO Protests Highlight Global Divide As food prices rise, more countries are turning to genetically modified crops for agricultural assistance. In July, Malawi became the second African country to approve biotech crops. British oppositio 2008-08-05 - International - food Green Fast Food: Really Here or a Green Dream? With a third of all children in the U.S. eating a fast food meal on any given day, the fast food industry is far reaching. The industry seemingly has a hold in every corner of American life and indust 2008-06-08 - International - food The Real Cost of Cheap Food Sometimes shoppers are confused by the differences in price between food grown organically and food grown conventionally. Usually organic loses the price war argument in comparison to what is called & 2008-04-24 - International - food UN calls for farming revolution With the price of foodstuffs soaring, a UNESCO panel has released a report last week on the state of world agriculture that is expected to call for urgent action to revamp global farming rules. The st 2008-04-22 - International - food Food Crisis is a Land Crisis The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Luc Gnacadja warns that the current food security crisis needs to be examined in line with the environmental
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