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		<title>Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Declaration was adopted by the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, in Bolivia. The Bolivian government has submitted it to the United Nations for consideration. Preamble We, the peoples and nations of Earth, considering that we are all part of Mother Earth, an indivisible, living community of interrelated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spiking Grain Prices Raise Specter Of Global Food Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Naomi Spencer 10 August, 2012 &#8211; WSWS.org http://www.countercurrents.org/spencer100812.htm Global food prices rose 6.2 percent in July, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization reported Thursday. The FAO said it released its Food Price Index ahead of its regular publication schedule as a warning against the impact of such price rises. The index, which calculates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who will feed China? Agribusiness or its own farmers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GRAIN 04 August 2012 When China began importing soybeans as animal feed in the late 1990s, it ushered in one of the most dramatic agricultural transformations the world has ever seen. On the other side of the world, 30 million hectares of farms, forests, savannahs and pastures in the Southern Cone of Latin America were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serious Trouble on the Food Front</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lester R. Brown Not only is the current food situation deteriorating, but so is the global food system itself. We saw early signs of the unraveling in 2008 following an abrupt doubling of world grain prices. As world food prices climbed, exporting countries began restricting grain exports to keep their domestic food prices down. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A collective initiative on local food system conservation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 03:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Biju Negi Beej Bachao Andolan is a non-formal collective of small farmers and activists. There is a core group of individuals recognized as representing the movement and there is Henwalghati (the Henwal river valley) that is considered its place of origin and major action. Other than that, Beej Bachao Andolan is more a philosophy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vijay Jarhdhari receives prestigious Indian award</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social worker and farmer activist Vijay Jarhdhari of Beej Bachao Andolan (Uttarakhand) has been given the prestigious “Indira Gandhi Priyadardarshini Environment Award” by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. The award, carrying a silver lotus plaque and cash prize of Rs 3 Lakhs (Rs 3,00,000/-, approximately US$ 5500, at current exchange), was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Green Deserts of Western Civilization</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2012 02:29:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Masanobu Fukuoka Published on Friday, July 20, 2012 by Common Dreams The following commentary is adapted from the posthumously published Sowing Seeds in the Desert by Masanobu Fukuoka (Chelsea Green, 2012). Fukuoka was the author of the international bestseller One-Straw Revolution. He died in 2008. Given the recent news about the extended drought facing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Whole Food, Not Whole Foods&#8217;: Renegade Farmers Reclaim Land on Earth Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Common Dreams staff http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/23-0 Bay area residents on Sunday, in order to prevent development of a chain grocery store, reclaimed 10 acres of land owned by the University of California-Berkeley and planted a community garden. The protesters-cum-gardeners, several dozen of them in all, broke the lock on a chain-linked fence about mid-day and got [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble on the horizons of Henwalghati</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trent Brown, Australia Uttarakhand was the last stage my journey. My research had already taken me to Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab. I had been trying to learn more about the potential of people&#8221;s initiatives for sustainable agriculture to make a difference for rural development &#8211; about how a small number of committed people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A short day out on a long journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Seed Friends]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Marianne Landzettel, England What does one do on a Saturday in Mussoorie, taking a break from an intensive course in Hindi, when one&#8217;s brain is oblique with a postposition permanently stuck to it? My husband, being a gardener and interested in seed saving for as long as I&#8217;ve known him, had worked it all out: [...]]]></description>
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