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		<title><![CDATA[Water shortage adds to Yemen woes]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Yemen is experiencing the first tremors of a significant social upheaval, likened by one expert to the industrial revolution. The cause is not al-Qaeda, or the insurgency in the north . The country of 23m people is running out of water.It is easy to be sceptical about doomsday scenarios...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tomorrow's Growth Market: Agriculture]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[You heard it straight from investment guru Jim Rogers: the next big growth market is agriculture. He's not being punny, either. In this interview in Business Week with Maria Bartiromo, Rogers ends by saying:  I really think agriculture is going to be the best place to be. Agriculture's been...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:24:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wastewater often used in urban agriculture: study]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[STOCKHOLM AFP &#8212; Wastewater is widely used to irrigate urban agricultural land in developing countries, a practice that has both advantages and disadvantages, a 53-city study presented at a water conference in Stockholm showed Monday.  Wastewater agriculture contributes importantly to urban food supplies and helps provide a livelihood for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[An International Comparison of the Effects of Government Agricultural Support on Food Budget Shares]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This study evaluates econometrically the effect of government support to agriculture on a measure of the affordability of food in 10 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD countries. The panel model we construct specifically utilizes two values calculated by the OECD: Producer Support Estimates as a percentage of gross...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Minister Ritz Opening Doors to Russia for Canadian Producers]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200806/ai_n27512133]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Government of Canada continues to stand up for our farm families on the world stage, and that commitment was demonstrated during meetings between Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Russian Agriculture Minister Alexey Gordeyev and other officials.  "Canadian farmers produce some of the best pork and beef in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Massive ETimor land-for-biofuel plan raises hackles]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DILI AFP &#8212; East Timor's government is under fire over an agreement to turn more than a sixth of the country's arable land over to a 100 million dollar foreign-funded ethanol project.  The Fretilin opposition has branded as a "land giveaway" a memorandum of understanding between the agriculture minister...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Columbia University are turning the idea of agriculture on its side--literally--by imagining farms in the city. Learn about their plans and what they hope to accomplish in Janet Raloff's blog posts.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Senator Feinstein crafts emergency agriculture labor relief act]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facing a serious and worsening agriculture labor crisis in the United States, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) is preparing an emergency solution for agriculture on a temporary basis that would address the immediate, critical needs for farm labor. Sen. Feinstein and others in Congress believe that agricultural producers and farm workers...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Global food prices will ease, but stay high: UN]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS AFP &#8212; Global food prices will fall from record peaks in the next few years, but the cost of feeding the family will still be far higher than in the past decade, an international study forecast on Thursday.  The price bubble has added to the number of people...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[WTO&#39;s Lamy urges flexibility from EU in trade talks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS AFP &#8212; WTO chief Pascal Lamy urged the European Union to be more flexible in global free-trade negotiations and not simply focus on what Europe stands to win on agriculture or lose on industrial products.  "It's a question of looking at a balance, but it's not 'black and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EU urges concessions from emerging nations in WTO talks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS AFP &#8212; EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson urged developing countries on Tuesday to yield ground in crunch World Trade Organisation negotiations.  "The emerging economies must now engage in a serious negotiation," Mandelson told the European Parliament's foreign trade panel.  Last week, the WTO submitted new proposals on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Aurora Organic Dairy and Colorado State University Announce Research Partnership Funded by Aurora Organic Dairy Foundation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grant to Fund Research Projects on Animal Welfare, Forage Crops and Soil Fertility for Organic Pasture; Findings to Be Shared with Organic Agriculture Community  BOULDER, Colo. -- Aurora Organic Dairy, a leading U.S. provider of high-quality private-label organic milk and butter, and Colorado State University CSU, one of the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The value of immigration]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeffery Jones gets it. He is Mexico's undersecretary of agriculture and agribusiness, and he delivered a message in Utah this week that cuts to the heart of the global immigration debate.   Simply put, it is this: The flow of workers from poor to rich countries is a good...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AAFC: Governments Provide Certainty to Yukon Producers.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5559/is_200804/ai_n25281311]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Apr 2, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- The  Government of Canada is working with Yukon to deliver new programs for  Canadian farm families through the Growing Forward initiative, but while  that progress continues, existing programs under the Agricultural Policy  Framework APF will be extended...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Governments Provide Certainty to New Brunswick Producers.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5559/is_200804/ai_n25281312]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Apr 2, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- The  Government of Canada is working with the Province of New Brunswick to  deliver new programs for Canadian farm families through the Growing  Forward initiative, but while that progress continues, existing programs  under the Agricultural Policy Framework...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[homes on the range: COOPERATIVE CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ON CALIFORNIA&#39;S PRIVATELY OWNED HARDWOOD RANGELANDS]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3854/is_200804/ai_n25502170]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ABSTRACT This essay describes the conservation history of California's hardwood rangelands: a vast region of oak woodland, grassland, and chaparral vegetation that occurs almost entirely on private property. Conservation has played as important a role in the history of California's privately owned hardwood rangelands as it has on the neighboring...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Media Advisory: Government of Canada to Announce Agri-Opportunities Program Funding.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5559/is_200803/ai_n25279764]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Mar 20, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- Blaine  Calkins, Member of Parliament for Wetaskiwin, on behalf of the  Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and  Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board, will be in Edmonton  OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Mar 20, 2008 (Marketwire via...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[PA Agriculture Secretary Welcomes New Director of Agricultural Law Center]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Nicole L. Cullison of PA Dept. of Agriculture, +1-717- 787-5085  HARRISBURG, Pa., March 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff today welcomed Ross Pifer, a Punxsutawney native and experienced agricultural attorney, as the new director of the Agricultural Law Resource and Reference Center within the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To: EDUCATION EDITORS Contact: Margie Albrecht of Charleston|Orwig, Inc., +1-262-563- 5100, Mobile, +1-262-352-2472, malbrecht@charlestonorwig.com, for Smithfield Foods, Inc.  SIOUX RAPIDS, Iowa, Feb. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Smithfield Foods, Inc., and Murphy-Brown, LLC, its hog production subsidiary, along with the National FFA Organization, on Thursday launched a two-year Learners to LeadersTM...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ministerial Statement on Court Decision on Marketing Choice for Barley.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Feb 26, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- The  Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and  Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board, today issued the following  statement in response to a Federal Court of Appeal decision on the  Government of Canada's appeal of...]]></description>
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