A World in Trouble: Drought, War, Food, Flight
The disruptions of climate and conflict are sparking perilous global insecurity
Paul Rogers
Friday, July 07, 2017 by OpenDemocracy.net – by Paul Rogers
‘What seems to be most significant today, and increasingly accepted within the FAO and other agencies, is that climate change is becoming a permanent reality affecting food supplies in many parts of the world. It is not something for the future, but is happening now.’ (Photo:
Asian Development Bank/flickr/cc)
Six years ago there were fears of a transnational famine developing across much of eastern Africa. At least 11 million people were at risk in what might have been the worst disaster of its kind since the early 1970s (see “A world in hunger: east Africa and beyond“, 21 July 2011). Continue reading →
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Obesity X-ray via Shutterstock)
Saturday, 04 May 2013 -By E. Douglas Kihn, Truthout | Op-Ed
The term obesity is defined as a count of 30 or above on a mathematical scale (called BMI, or Body Mass Index) that combines weight and height measurements of individuals. The term overweight is used to describe the BMI of people who fall in between obese and normal.
Over the past three decades, the obesity rate in America has by all accounts climbed to astronomical proportions. Over a third of Americans are officially overweight and another 35.7 percent are obese, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Conventional experts blame the “wrong food,” bad genes, lack of exercise, chemicals in food, and this or that hormone for the problem. Continue reading →
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By Lester R. Brown
Growing demand for food and fuel has put pressure on the world’s agricultural lands to produce more. Now, a trend in “land grabbing” has emerged, as wealthy countries lease or buy farms and agribusiness in poorer countries to ensure their own future supplies. The result may be further economic disparities and even food wars.
World grain and soybean prices more than doubled between 2007 and mid-2008. As food prices climbed everywhere, some exporting countries began to restrict grain shipments in an effort to limit food price inflation at home. Importing countries panicked. Some tried to negotiate long-term grain supply agreements with exporting countries, but in a seller’s market, few were successful. Seemingly overnight, importing countries realized that one of their few options was to find land in other countries on which to produce food for themselves. …… And the land rush was on. Read more.
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Also tagged agricultural lands, and the Global Land Grab, farms and agribusiness, food wars, Fuel, grain and soybean prices, Lester R. Brown, The Futurist magazine
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GUYANA and CARIBBEAN RECIPES – New Listings
Note: Recipes from the Guyana Outpost Website were no longer available for some time, as the site was closed.
We have now recovered the links to these recipes from the archives. It has the most recipes in a wide range of categories:
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Here are some links to other similar websites.
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Guyana Recipes on the Guyana Pride Website
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Also tagged Caribbean foods, Caribbean recipes, dinner, GUYANA and CARIBBEAN RECIPES, GUYANA DINING, GUYANA PRIDE Website - recipes, Guyanese foods, guyanese recipes, recipes from Guyana, vegetarian
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Stephen Ritz: A teacher growing green in the South Bronx
A whirlwind of energy and ideas, Stephen Ritz is a teacher in New York’s tough South Bronx, where he and his kids grow lush gardens for food, greenery — and jobs. Just try to keep up with this New York treasure as he spins through the many, many ways there are to grow hope in a neighborhood many have written off, or in your own. (Filmed at TEDxManhattan.)
Stephen Ritz teaches at-risk kids in the South Bronx. Full bio »
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Another CARICOM member – featured by Guyanese Online
Trinidadian cuisine documentary
A documentary exploring the history and culture of cuisine in Trinidad and Tobago. Produced and shot on location through University of California, Davis Summer Aboard program 2010. Continue reading →
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Also tagged cuisine, dining, documentary, History, Limin' and Dinin' in Trinidad & Tobago, liming, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidadian cuisine documentary, uc davis, university of california, university of california davis
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Food, Fuel, and the Global Land Grab
A World in Trouble: Drought, War, Food, Flight
A World in Trouble: Drought, War, Food, Flight
The disruptions of climate and conflict are sparking perilous global insecurity
Paul Rogers
Friday, July 07, 2017 by OpenDemocracy.net – by Paul Rogers
Six years ago there were fears of a transnational famine developing across much of eastern Africa. At least 11 million people were at risk in what might have been the worst disaster of its kind since the early 1970s (see “A world in hunger: east Africa and beyond“, 21 July 2011). Continue reading →
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