Sierra Leone Up for Grabs
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The case of the Sierra Leone "15" highlights the country's growing resistance to multinational land-grabs.
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Rio+20
Commentary
Social policies and instruments will need to be developed to ensure that the Green Economy not only alleviates poverty and improves equity, but that the interests of the people who depend on Green Economy are deliberately safeguarded from the very outset.
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Carbon Blood Money in Honduras
Commentary
The violence playing out in Honduras shows the dark underbelly of the international carbon credit trade.
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Food security and the WTO
Commentary
The WTO should stop insisting on an out-of-date trade agenda. It should get back on track -- or get out of the way -- to support fresh approaches that bolster local food systems.
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Food of the Gods
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On Seeds
Commentary
Funding for agricultural development - some US$7.7 billion worth - would be directed in large part to genetically modified crop research. In other words, food aid policy for the first time mandates the use of genetic modification technologies.
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NAFTA Is Starving Mexico
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