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		<title>GERMANY: While Some Waste, Others Feast</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Julio Godoy HAMBURG, Jan 20, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Shortly before midnight last Saturday, Alexander, a 24-year-old law student, stepped out of his small apartment in Hamburg and set off for a jaunt around the local supermarkets to pilfer their garbage containers. Alex, who did not want his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFGHANISTAN: Land Triggers New Conflicts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Rebecca Murray NANGARHAR, Afghanistan , Dec 4, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; A small plot of urban land has pitted Assadullah, 55, against an unwelcome neighbour in a bitter personal property dispute that has stretched on for almost a decade. Assadullah’s story is a common one. A working-class barber [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millions Stand to Benefit from Farmers&#8217; Co-ops</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Elizabeth Whitman UNITED NATIONS, Nov 22, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; The 925 million people who went hungry in 2010 are just one facet of an ever-worsening food security crisis. Both food producers and consumers face the consequences of price volatility and unsustainable agricultural practices &#8211; challenges that leave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survival Fear Stalks Millions in West Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN By Jerome Mwanda IDN-InDepth NewsReport NAIROBI (IDN) &#8211; Massive leasing of lands, which the government of Mali justifies with the need to &#34;modernize&#34; the country&#8217;s agriculture, is threatening the survival of populations dependent on the water flows of the Niger River in Mali and in the rest of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GUATEMALA: The War Over Land</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Danilo Valladares GUATEMALA CITY, Sept 12, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; The violent eviction of 91 rural families in northern Guatemala was the latest incident in the ageold conflict over land in a country where the army is frequently called in to force peasant farmers off their land. &#34;This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BRAZIL: Small-Scale Land Speculators Contribute to Amazon Deforestation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy* UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jul 28, 2011 (Tierramérica) &#8211; Many migrants from southern Brazil who clear forests in Brazil’s state of Amazonas are making their living as small-scale land speculators and not as farmers or as cattle ranchers, new research has found. This on-the-ground reality and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ban Proposed on Export Restrictions that Undermine Food Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Isolda Agazzi GENEVA, Jun 24, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; Egypt has initiated a proposal in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to ban export restrictions on farm products to poor countries that are net food importers. The Group of 20 has also exhorted the upcoming WTO ministerial conference to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus on Smallholder Farmers Vital</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; BERLIN (IDN) &#8211; Leaders of three eminent international institutions have underlined the critical role of smallholder farmers in achieving much-needed global food security and preventing food price volatility. The clarion call comes in run-up to the first-ever official meeting of agriculture ministers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Macadamia Trees Offer Lifeline to Small Farmers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 19:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Elizabeth Eames Roebling SANTO DOMINGO, May 26, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; A project to help reforest after the devastation of Hurricane David 32 years ago has grown into a plan to lift small coffee farmers out of poverty, all by the introduction of a gourmet ice cream. Hurricane [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COLOMBIA: Displaced Campesinos Want a Say on Land Restitution Bill</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Helda Martínez BOGOTÁ, Apr 28, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; The Colombian government has been extolling a bill on Victims and Land Restitution which is being debated in Congress and is receiving extensive media coverage. But the demands of the victims themselves, forcibly displaced campesinos, are falling on deaf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Table for Nine Billion</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Aprille Muscara* WASHINGTON, Apr 14, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; As the World Bank and International Monetary Fund convene for their annual Spring Meetings here, soaring food prices are high on the agenda, prompting some analysts to fast-forward to 2050 and the question of how to nourish the mid-century&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BRAZIL: Sugar Cane Fertilises Its Own Soil</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Mario Osava* RIBEIRÃO PRETO, Brazil, Apr 12, 2011 (Tierramérica) &#8211; The mechanisation of sugar cane harvesting, originally aimed at curbing the pollution caused by the burning of cane fields, has resulted in an added bonus: it has helped to improve soil quality, according to growers and technical [...]]]></description>
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