Fourth of July 2010 Independence Day: the US –a system too entrenched to CHANGE

(US/Justice News)

... agriculture, and to institute a fair and just transition program for workers and communities affected by the conversion to organic agriculture. (PROMOTES ORGANIC WITHOUT BANNING GENETICALLY-ENGINEERED ...

G8/g20 countries condone the global colossal fossil country; Canada

(International/Earth News)

... Oppose all proposals such as to supply genetically-engineered food and crops to address the issue of poverty, or to contribute to the mitigation of climate change.58. Promote plant based organic agriculture, ...

G8/G20 Communiqué | Rejection of Failed System that Places Profits over Mother Earth and People

(International/Justice News)

... to the mitigation of climate change. 58. Promote plant based organic agriculture, and institute a fair and just transition program for workers and communities affected by the conversion to organic agriculture. ...

UNDP Unveils Agenda to Spur Anti-Poverty Goals

(International/Justice News)

... made redundant in 2009 due to smelter closures. And in Zambia, 6,000 people lost their jobs in the mining sector in November 2009 alone. Calling for an increased focus on agriculture, the report says that ...

UN report says shift to vegetable-based diets needed to reduce climate change

(International/Earth News)

... agriculture as a priority area in need of ‘transformational change’, along with fossil fuel use — which is helping drive climate change — and production and use of materials such as iron, steel, aluminum ...

Indigenous food security: where the past meets the future.

(International/Justice News)

... Canadians have difficulties in accessing a diet conducive to healthy living because of geographic, economic and cultural barriers. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that over a billion ...

You can't be a meat-eating environmentalist

(International/Earth News)

... so much destruction, it's hard to know where to begin. According to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, 30 percent of the Earth's ice-free land is now involved—either directly or indirectly—in ...

Q&A: Why Poorest African Countries Should Not Sign the EPAs

(International/Justice News)

... squeezed out of business because, in addition to not paying duties, Europe keeps subsidising its agriculture. African countries must decide what they want. I prefer minimal protection that will allow them ...

Food inspectors failing the public—and animals

(US/Justice News)

... food inspection agency for more than 18 years. After an animal welfare group released footage of 1-day-old calves being kicked, beaten and electrically shocked at Bushway, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Food not lawns

(Victoria and Islands/Earth News)

... activity.  It should be made clear that Resistance is Fertile is not associated with the Campus Community Gardens (CCG), the University of Victoria Sustainability Project (UVSP), or Campus Urban Agriculture ...