The Global Community has had work on the global food production aspects and issues ever since 1985. A short list of our previous work on the global food production aspects and issues. 
For more recent work on the global food production aspects and issues read the following table.
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| July 5, 2007 |
How Much of Your Food is Being Nuked Before it Hits the Shelf? From fruit to spices to meat, contamination fears and market possibilities are spurring a food irradiation revival. But how safe is the practice?
by Brita Belli, E Magazine published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Health and Welless |
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| May 31, 2007 |
Letter sent: Indian Farmer Leader On India-US Pact On GMOs , by Krishan Bir Chaudhary
and published by ASHOK B SHARMA, Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd.
I am sending a brief note on "US-India Agricultural Knowledge Initiative" agreement on agriculture for your kind perusal. The entire agreement is shroud in mystery and the
farmers of the country have serious apprehensions about the real intent and motive of the joint agreement. Indian Agricultural Scientists have done a very splendid job through years
of sustained research. Their scientific acumen and compatibility can match the best of faculty in the world. This agriculture agreement will oblige our scientist to became a tool in the hands of the multinationals for advancement & promotion of their interest in India. I would like to give a
brief on the entire gamut of the US-India agreement as the matter concerns India's sovereignty and the future of Indian agriculture.
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| May 15, 2007 |
One Billion To Be Displaced By 2050 , by Agence France Presse,
Countercurrents.org
At least one billion people risk fleeing their homes over the next four decades because of conflicts and natural disasters that will worsen with global warming, a relief agency warned Monday.
In a report, British-based Christian Aid said countries worldwide, especially the poorest, are now facing the greatest forced migration ever — one that will dwarf those displaced by World War II. |
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| May 14, 2007 |
Climate Change: A Moral Obligation for the Developed World
The Nobel laureate calls for industrialized nations to step up their efforts on climate change for the sake of the world's poor.
by Desmond Tutu, TomPaine.com, also in The Guardian, published in AlterNet: The Mix is the Message, Environment. |
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| April 10, 2007 |
Peak Soil: Why cellulosic ethanol, biofuels are unsustainable and a threat to America.
There are many serious problems with biofuels, especially on a massive scale, and it appears from this report that they cannot be surmounted.
So let the truth of Alice Friedemann’s meticulous and incisive diligence wash over you and rid you of any confusion or false hopes. The absurdity and destructiveness
of large scale biofuels are a chance for people to eventually even reject the internal combustion engine and energy waste in general. One can also hazard from this
report that bioplastics, as well, cannot make it in a big way. by Alice Friedemann, with Culture Change. Culture Change was founded by Sustainable Energy Institute.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself. |
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| March 8, 2007 |
Genetically modified food set to be labelled before import (in India) , by ASHOK B SHARMA,
Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture, RURAL ECONOMY sections, Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd.
The health ministry is set to amend the Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, 1955 to introduce the provision of mandatory labelling of genetically modified (GM) foods, likely to be imported or produced in the country.
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| September 2006 |
The rise of seafood awareness campaigns in an era of collapsing fisheries doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2006.09.003, by Jennifer L. Jacquet. and Daniel Pauly,
The Sea Around Us Project, The Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4
The human appetite for seafood has intensified and so has overfishing and damage to marine ecosystems. Recently, the response to the
fisheries crisis has included a considerable effort directed toward raising the seafood awareness of consumers in North America and
Europe. The resulting campaigns aim to affect the seafood demand and to lead to a sustainable seafood supply. Though there are
indicators of some regional successes, lack of support by the Asian market and the proliferation of self-serving seafood labels are but two
of the many significant limitations of these campaigns. This contribution investigates the difficulties and successes of seafood awareness
campaigns, as well as the need for indicators of campaign effectiveness. Published by Marine Policy, the leading journal of ocean policy studies. Marine Policy
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| February 10, 2007 |
4th INTERNATIONAL BIRD FLU SUMMIT, by Koos van der Velden, Chairman, Dates of Conference: 14 -15 March 2007,
The 4th International Bird Flu Summit will take place in TBA. The purpose of the summit is to prepare the World to fight this potentially infectious disease. |
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| February 5, 2007 |
Setback for developing world as US will extend support to farmers , by ASHOK B SHARMA,
Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture, RURAL ECONOMY sections, Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd.
Consistent with the game being played by developed countries, the US has begun the process of shifting its subsidies under Amber and Blue boxes to Green box through its 2007 Farm Bill
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| January 20, 2007 |
India pips China for top slot in GM crops , by ASHOK B SHARMA,
Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture, COMMODITIES sections, Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd.
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| January 21, 2007 |
Clean Coal, Forest Biofuel and Other Fairy Tales, by Dr. Glen Barry , Earth Meanders and Ecological Internet (EI)
Insightful original Earth essays placing environmental sustainability within the context of other contemporary issues including peace and freedom.
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| January 12, 2007 |
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report: Livestock generate 18 percent of world's global warming pollutants - more than transportation (Go vegetarian) , by H. Steinfeld, P. Gerber, T. Wassenaar, V. Castel, M. Rosales, C. de Haan ,
Livestock’s long shadow: environmental issues and options This report aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation. The assessment is based on the most recent and complete data available, taking into account direct impacts, along with the impacts of feed crop agriculture required for livestock production.
The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The findings of this report suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.
Livestock’s contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale and its potential contribution to their solution is equally large. The impact is so significant that it needs to be addressed with urgency. Major reductions in impact could be achieved at reasonable cost.
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| December 11, 2006 |
Suspended WTO talks likely to bring fresh trouble , by ASHOK B SHARMA,
Indian Society For Sustainable Agriculture Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Ltd.
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