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Food Prices: World Bank Warns Millions Face Poverty

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April 14, 2011
BBC
The World Bank has warned that rising food prices, driven partly by rising fuel costs, are pushing millions of people into extreme poverty. Read more

The Growing Food Crisis, and What World Leaders Aren't Doing About It

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April 22, 2011
Color Lines by Michelle Chen
If all goes as planned for the G-20 this year, leaders of the world's most powerful economies will convene to issue bold proclamations, talk past each other, and quietly agree to do virtually nothing. The stakes might be a little higher now,... Read more

Hungry Kids and the Environment Hit Hard by USDA Budget Cuts

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April 12, 2011
Grist by Tom Laskawy
The House Appropriations Committee has released a detailed list of budget cuts as part of the deal to avoid a government shutdown, and it looks like agriculture and food programs are getting hit pretty hard. The USDA budget will be cut by $2.6... Read more

"I Pay, You Pay, Why Doesn't B of A?": Are We Seeing the Birth of a Totally New Protest Movement?

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April 12, 2011
Alternet by Dan Hancox
It's April 5, the end of the financial year, and 100 people - mostly strangers - have their arms linked in a massive circle, occupying the heart of Canary Wharf, the hyper-real maze of steel and plate glass that is the home of Britain's financial... Read more

While the Rich Get Richer, the Rest of Us Pay More for Less at the Supermarket

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March 30, 2011
Grist by Tom Laskawy
The New York Times reports that food companies are embarked on a "stealth" strategy to hike prices by significantly shrinking packages without changing the price. For example, canned vegetables are down to thirteen from sixteen ounces (one shopper... Read more

Let Them Eat Bread: How Food Subsidies Prevent (and Provoke) Revolutions in the Middle East

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March 23, 2011
Foreign Affairs by Annia Ciezadlo
For two days, people poured into the streets of Cairo, burning buses and trams, government buildings, and expensive cars. In Tahrir Square, troops fired tear gas at the demonstrators. Cairenes cheered from balconies and rooftops while their... Read more

How Can States Raise Revenue?

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March 22, 2011
Labor Notes by Mark Brenner
The traditional union approach to budget politics is to accept the limits of what's possible-typically defined by politicians and lobbyists-and push for the best deal we can within those fiscal constraints. Read more

Forget Farmers Markets - I Want to Sell My Pastured Meat at Price Chopper

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March 18, 2011
Grist by Bob Comis
It is time to make local passe. It is time to make regional the new local. Enough of farmers markets, CSAs, and direct on-farm sales. Yes, they are exciting -- they feel like they are getting us somewhere. Read more

To Make Local Food More Accessible, Time to Revive Mid-Sized Farms

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March 15, 2011
Grist by Tom Philpott
Most people probably don't think of Carrboro, North Carolina -- a bustling town just outside of Chapel Hill -- as a food lover's paradise. But walk into the town's beloved farmers market on a spring Saturday morning, and you see an impressive... Read more

New Ways of Living and Organizing Our Economy are Flourishing

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March 17, 2011
Grist by Tom Philpott
The last couple of days have been gloomy ones. I kept checking in with the vague and dire reports from the nuclear-power bleeding edge in Japan. For part of the time I was also immersed in a post about truly awful things going on in the U.S.... Read more

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