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The Federal Government is evolving on marijuana-but not fast enough
We shouldn’t treat cannabis like heroin. But we shouldn’t treat it like ketamine either, as a federal agency now recommends.
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We’re rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic: don’t ask me to help out
Highlighting the climate crisis is not ‘alarmism’, as critics say. Big Business wants an exclusive focus on climate because it downplays the true reasons for alarm.
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Ecuador just showed the world what it means to take climate change seriously
It is long past time we end our mad rush to burn the planet to the ground.
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Brazil stopped deforestation in the Amazon, but ‘the point of no return’ is still close
In 40 years, Amazon rainforest lost an area equivalent to France; at this rate, catastrophe is imminent, say scientists.
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Our food system is the bullseye for solving the World’s climate challenges
The industrialized food system is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, but it is not a major topic at climate talks.
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Shooting the messenger: Adverse health trends revealed in the NFHS (5) 2019-2021
Economists have put forward all kinds of fallacious arguments to justify the prolonged fall in per capita food spending, and hence in nutritional intake, in India, such as mechanisation leading to lower energy needs, change in the age structure of the population, change in tastes and so on.
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The eco collapse we were warned about has begun
This accumulation of tragic evidence, against all the denialist narratives, makes it undeniable that the climate crisis is already here, among us.
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FAO report refutes Venezuelan food crisis narrative
The most recent report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has revealed positive news for Venezuela.
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Nanoplastics are entering our bodies
The air is plasticized, and we are no better protected from it outdoors than indoors.
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The rice bowl of the Chinese people is held firmly in their hands: The Twenty-Seventh Newsletter (2023)
In 2017, the World Bank determined that the income threshold for poverty, which had been set at $1.90 per day, was far too low. They set the new poverty line at $2.15 per day, which accounted for over 700 million people.
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33,147,744 people in the United States currently face extreme weather alerts
Climate change is making weather more extreme. This tool shows how many people across the United States face risks right now from wildfires, flooding, tropical storms, or extreme heat.
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Planet Earth is ‘quite sick’: 7 of 8 boundaries for safe and just world already breached, study says
“Nothing less than a just global transformation… is required to ensure human well-being,” researchers wrote.
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Lessons in freedom: Agroecology, localization and food sovereignty
Farmers from across the Americas are working together to envision a new food system based on food sovereignty and political justice.
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Dossier no. 65: Whose Land Is It and What Is It For? An Unfinished Debate About Land Access in Argentina
How is it that a country like Argentina, with its vast rural territory, longstanding agricultural tradition, and capacity to produce food for hundreds of millions of people, is plagued by hunger and malnourishment?
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From net zero to glyphosate: Agritech’s greenwashed corporate power grab
Big agribusiness and ‘philanthropic’ foundations position themselves as the saviours of humanity due to their much-promoted plans to ‘feed the world’ with ‘precision’ farming’, ‘data-driven’ agriculture and ‘sustainable’ production.
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For Argentina’s small farmers, the land is predictable but the markets are not: The Twenty-Third Newsletter (2023)
In 2021, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) noted that Argentina remains ‘a major exporter of agricultural products’, which, at that time, accounted for nearly two-thirds of the country’s exports (as of April 2023, agricultural goods accounted for 56.4% of the country’s exports).
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Food for Thought: Pueblo a Pueblo Promotes Grassroots Food Sovereignty (Part IV)
An innovative form of food distribution has been key for schools and communes.
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Colorado River water deal: a bandaid or real progress?
The recent Colorado River water deal reached between the three lower basin states of California, Arizona and Nevada is being celebrated by the corporate media as “historic,” although final approval by the Department of Interior is still pending.
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The illuminating influence of Eric Huntley
When I sat down with Eric Huntley it was under the premise of interviewing him about the new community garden that he has established—along with filmmaker and organiser Sukant Chandan—in the London borough of Ealing, just minutes away from where he and his late-wife, Jessica Huntley, ran their bookshop and publishing house.
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Nicaragua: What we learned about agroecology
“Why did we choose to study in Nicaragua? Hunger, poverty, and illiteracy are major issues plaguing much of the world, and climate change is one of the greatest threats to humans on the planet. Nicaragua is setting an example for sustainable development that addresses all these issues.”