Keywords: Food Production
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INTERNATIONAL
The story of Haiti, even from the earliest decades of its independence,
is one of a downward spiral into debt and underdevelopment. It has been at the short end of the stick, time and time again,
in its relationships with richer and powerful countries. Haiti, it
turns out, never stood a chance.
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AUSTRALIA
- Georgina Laidlaw
- 16 February 2010
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Despite damnation, bombs and climate change, the truffle continues to
prove that peasants can eat like kings — just not in Australia where, priced at up to $3500 a kilo, it has been typecast as an indulgence of the
wealthy.
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RELIGION
- Bruce Duncan
- 07 January 2010
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In his World Day of Peace statement
for 2010, the Pope again highlights the urgency of responding to
climate change. Pope Benedict has had major problems in communicating this message, notably a lack of journalistic expertise to make his documents more readable.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Arnold Zable
- 04 November 2009
Observing this unique means of fishing, I realised an alternative intelligence was at work, born of the islanders' relationship to the environment. Ironically, this island is one of a growing number facing inundation by rising waters due to climate change.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 14 September 2009
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Eating meat is a moral issue. We understand
that sexual desires need to be met in a context of moral probity, or
it's likely we will cause psychological damage to ourselves or others. But food consumption is wrongly regarded as morally
neutral.
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AUSTRALIA
- Luke Fraser
- 09 September 2009
The relationship between Australia and Russia is over 200 years old. It
began with great promise, but relations cooled following the Russian
Revolution. The financial crisis presents an opportunity for both
countries to look to each other with optimism once again.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ben Coleridge
- 31 March 2009
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The Russian language has two words for whisperer: one who whispers
behind others' backs, and one who whispers for fear of being
heard. Government forces wish emphasise Stalin's achievements as the builder of the country's glorious Soviet past.
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INTERNATIONAL
- James Ingram
- 04 July 2008
In his keynote message to the World Food Summit Pope Benedict XVI called for new strategies to promote food production. Feeding the world population in the coming decades is as big a challenge as climate change, and no less important.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
It's time to scrutinise the rapid rise of the 'shopping green' movement in the US and elsewhere, and assess the sum total of its effect on the environment. By buying bottled water, organic food, or sunscreen, consumers are arguably shutting the healthy individual in and the threatening world out.
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ENVIRONMENT
So many of the goods you see in shop windows will soon be waste, mostly landfill. Cutting waste is the fastest way to reduce carbon emissions and cope with other crises of climate change.
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ENVIRONMENT
The Kiwis have managed to stamp their name all over a fruit that is not even native to their land.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 30 October 2006
Because of the intricate nature of all the interactions involved, the best course of action in environmental matters is rarely clear or obvious. We just need to be grateful for decisive political leaders.
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