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| Advantage of Normal Crops |
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| Native Americans grew corn interspersed with beans to provide added nutrition and to replenish the soil with nitrogen, which was drawn out by the corn. |
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| pouring on huge amounts of water from underground acquifers, essentially great underground lakes. |
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| or that more volume under mass production can lower costs |
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| ever expanding Northern media universe and the lack of useful information sources for (or about) the majority of humans who live in the develping-mostly Southern Hemisphere--World. |
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| the market-driven broadcasting environment characterised by increasingly vicious battles for ratings |
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(peninsul in Arabic)
known as the "CNN of the Arab world" is Qatar based. Launched in 1966, has contributed it significantly to democratising television news in the Arab world--focus on lives and issues discussed in the bazaars...human rights, gender-related issues, and democracy. became famous during the period of 9/11 and aftermath |
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| More than 80% of the global news is distributed by just 3 news agencies--AP, Reuters and Agence France Presse (AFP) |
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| Backed by the Rockefeller Foundation--worked in Mexico to breed high-yielding strains of wheat. |
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CIMMYT
International Center for the Improvement of Wheat and Maize |
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Timothy Reeves, director
evolved like modern wheat from Borlaug's work and, together with the IRRI (the International Rice Research Institute) based in Phillipine, institutionalized the Green Revolution |
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| Large parts of the developing world, precisely the areas least able to grow their own food, still have high birth rates. Even Green Revolution, regions of Africa have more than offset increased crop yields with increased population. |
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| In some areas, the supply of arable land is decreasing, esp. in the U.S., where urbanization continues to chew up farms. |
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| The biggest disincentive to promoting food production we have seen has been the dumping of low-cost grain. |
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| crosses of plants that do not normally cross, yield far more than either parent, the grip on the bootstraps that has boosted most of our yield gains in corn during the past 30 yrs. |
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| The archael microbes were present in the organic soil but not in the sample from the industrial ag land...important :} |
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| Investing a in rice, hoping to get lucky :) |
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| human tendency to seek out only facts that fit what we already know to be true while downplaying or ignoring contradictory evidence. |
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| Instead of farmers outsourcing to contractors, it becomes a matter of large food processors buying raw materials from farmers, on the processor's term. Today, most of the money is in the work the farmer no longer does--or even controls. |
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| No Wonder No Farming Profit |
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| allowing agribusiness firms to extract higher prices for the products the farmers buy from them, while offering lower prices for the crop they buy from farmer. |
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CAFOs
(confined animal feeding operations) |
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| like a garbage barge in a goldfish pond, overwhelmed by the ability of an ecosysytem cope--increasing the norm in livestock production b/c, like crop monocultures, they allow the production of huge populations of animals which can be slaughtered and marketed at rock bottom costs...generate a lot of waste |
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What do different population structures suggest for the economic futures of individual countries? |
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Expected that from 2005-2025--
20-60 age group up 40% in LDCs
20-60 age down 12% in MDCs
Japan, Germany, Italy, Spain, down >30%
(all with strong anti-immigration policies) |
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D: Simplifies ecosystems to produce desired food and fiber products
S: instead of a variety of foods grown, only the perfectly GM foods get grown to increase efficiency.
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D: news station and newspaper in the middle east.
S: reported honestly about the Iraq war when the U.S. was putting on
a show for the American people.
EX: When Saddam Hussein’s statue toppled, the U.S. people gathered some Iraq’s to surround the statue to celebrate his downfall. |
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