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A harvest of silence |
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Efforts to boost the economy of one of Guatemala's poorest regions through cash cropping threatens the cultural and genetic diversity of the Maya. |
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Published June 2002 |
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What is the right to food? |
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Debate on the right to food is likely to be lively at the World Food Summit: five years later. |
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Published June 2002 |
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Banking for the poor |
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Microcredit alone may not be enough. The poor need access to financial services. |
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Published June 2002 |
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AIDS hitting African farm sector hard |
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Latest statistics show over half of those with HIV/AIDS live in rural areas, where stricken families struggle to produce enough food to survive. |
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Published May 2002 |
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Foetal hunger can
mean adult ill-health |
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Recent research shows that chronic adult
diseases like hypertension and obesity are linked to undernourishment
before birth. |
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Published May 2002 |
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Feeding an increasingly
urban world |
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By 2005, over half the world's people
will live in cities. Supplying them with safe and affordable
food will strain the food supply and distribution chain to
the breaking point. The challenge is greatest in the developing
world's cities. |
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Published May 2002 |
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The salt of the earth: hazardous for
food production
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Irrigation produces much of the world's food, but about
a tenth of the world's irrigated land has been damaged by
salt. This has become a profound threat to food security.
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Published April 2002
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