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		<title>Meeting in Iceland expresses concern for the World&#8217;s soil</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each year, 12 million hectares of land, where 20 million tonnes of grain could have been grown, are lost to land degradation. In the past 40 years, 30 percent of the planet&#8217;s arable (food-producing) land has become unproductive due to erosion. Unless this trend is reversed soon, feeding the world&#8217;s growing population will be impossible. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3692853&#038;post=4194&#038;subd=waterandfoodaward&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Danish Island aims to feed residents sustainably 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 12:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tiny Island of Bornholm, in the Baltic sea, is the home of an ambitious project to turn the whole island into a model of sustainable living by 2025. One step along the way will be the planned conference Eco Islands global summit which they are hosting this September. Read more here. Video invite<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3692853&#038;post=4190&#038;subd=waterandfoodaward&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Invitation to CSR 2.0 conference and WAF general assembly</title>
		<link>http://waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/invitation-to-csr-2-0-conference-and-waf-general-assembly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[purpose    to provide a sustainable alternative to &#8216;business as usual&#8217; &#8211; to improve the lives of people background   never before has the link between business as usual and destruction of nature and environment been more clear than today &#8211; never before has the link between sustainable business and resolving the world&#8217;s biggest problems been [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3692853&#038;post=4177&#038;subd=waterandfoodaward&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can just holding back on food consumption solve world hunger?</title>
		<link>http://waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/can-just-holding-back-on-food-consumption-solve-world-hunger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephenhinton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent opinion piece in Al-Jazeera, Prof William G. Moseley, a human-environment and development geographer at Macalester College in Saint Paul,  puts the argument for a strategy that simply reduces food consumption in the food supply chain &#8211; by all means possible. And there are good arguments: much food is wasted, much is simply [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3692853&#038;post=4175&#038;subd=waterandfoodaward&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Indian Government&#8217;s Food Security Bill to help the Masses</title>
		<link>http://waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/the-indian-governments-food-security-bill-to-help-the-masses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 19:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pkulkarni707</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to an article in the times of India, the Indian goverment are working to improve food distribution to the poor. According to the UN, 50% of children under the age of 5 are malnourished in India.  The Public Distribution System (PDS) in place intended to feed the poor has been criticised for  forcing poor [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3692853&#038;post=4167&#038;subd=waterandfoodaward&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Food security suffers as we pay businesses&#8217; pollution bills for them</title>
		<link>http://waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com/2013/04/26/food-security-suffers-as-we-pay-businesses-pollution-bills-for-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephenhinton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent article in grist.org, journalist David Roberts explains that None of the world’s top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use Citing a recent report [PDF] by environmental consultancy Trucost on behalf of The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) program sponsored by United Nations Environmental Program, David [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3692853&#038;post=4155&#038;subd=waterandfoodaward&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guardian article warns millions will starve as world warms</title>
		<link>http://waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/guardian-article-warns-millions-will-starve-as-world-warms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 02:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephenhinton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To read this latest report on how climate system destabilization will affect food security, visit this link.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3692853&#038;post=4150&#038;subd=waterandfoodaward&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate change will affect food supply</title>
		<link>http://waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/climate-change-will-affect-food-supply/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 02:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephenhinton</dc:creator>
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		<title>2013 finalist Allan Savory explains how cattle stop desertification</title>
		<link>http://waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/2012-finalist-allan-savory-explains-how-cattle-stop-desertification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephenhinton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert,” begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it&#8217;s happening to about two-thirds of the world’s grasslands, accelerating climate change and causing traditional grazing societies to descend into social chaos. Savory has devoted his life to stopping it. He now believes [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3692853&#038;post=4141&#038;subd=waterandfoodaward&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Former finalist SADHANA FOREST features in new film about Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stephenhinton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadhana Forest   creates a model of wasteland reclamation and sustainable living which can be easily replicated by the surrounding community near its home village and other developing countries. They were nominated  for the Award partly because they have demonstrated remarkable results and also that volunteer-ism is still alive.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=waterandfoodaward.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3692853&#038;post=4135&#038;subd=waterandfoodaward&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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