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Global News 2008

 * The way the world grows its food will have to change radically to better serve the poor and hungry if the world is to cope with a growing population and climate change while avoiding social breakdown and environmental collapse, says International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development report by over 400 scientists, April 15


 * IIED 3 year project to gather the views of small-scale farmers, indigenous people, nomadic pastoralists, rural communities, food workers and other citizens in Mali, India, Iran and the Andean region of Latin America (Bolivia and Peru), April 14

Comment 2007

 * IAASTD report recommends small-scale farmers and agro-ecological methods are the way forward if the current food crisis is to be solved and to meet the needs of local communities, declaring indigenous and local knowledge play as important a role as formal science, Greenpeace International, April 15

Comment 2007

 * Converting arable land to pure fuel production a "crime against humanity", says United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, October 26 topic

Global News 2007

 * New Meat Byproducts: Avian Flu and Global Climate change, February 19 Worldwatch Institute