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A bumper crop of corn
Malawi celebrates, but for how long? |
Maywa Montenegro |
03 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| So while the U.S. Farm Bill is out to pasture until 2008, it looks like most commodity subsidies will remain untouched. Agricultural price supports may be the law of the land here, but it's certainly not what we've been advocating abroad. A bittersweet story on page one of today's NY Times documents how Malawians are pulling back from the brink, largely because -- going against the wishes of the World Bank -- they've begun to reinstitute government crop subsidies: ... |
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| Topics: ag policy, ag subsidies, agriculture, food, Malawi, politics (all these topics) |
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Our challenge: surviving the rule of economists
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JMG |
02 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| "Ending famine simply by ignoring the experts" heads the encouraging story of Malawi's turnaround on hunger ... What's strange is that the "experts" in the piece are U.S. and British economists who advocated the standard imperial liberal solution (grow cash crops for export to us, and buy your food from us). Thankfully, the people of Malawi ignored such expertise and concentrated instead of the physical reality before them. There is very little time for ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, food, Malawi (all these topics) |
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'Free' market religion kills
Noticing the elephant stomping Africa |
JMG |
13 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Bob ('Prisoner of Trebekistan') Harris notices how often U.S. media aids and abets counterproductive U.S. foreign 'aid' policies. The same people whose worship of the so-called free market allows them to demolish countries are the ones leading the Bush Administration's efforts to ensure that the global response to global heating doesn't adopt any heresies. Which is why our policy response to global heating has been zilch. That's the headline of this front-page story in today's ... |
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| Topics: Malawi, agriculture, ag subsidies (all these topics) |
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The wind and the William
Malawian man powers village with a $16 windmill |
Kate Sheppard |
11 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| A great story via Inhabitat: With all the sobering news lately about global warming and war, it's important to remember all the positive things that are also going on in the world at any given time. Case in point: the story of intrepid Malawi youth William Kamkwamba who, despite having no education or training, recently engineered and built a windmill that powers his entire village. It's certainly the most inspiring story we've read this month, and we think you'll a ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, innovation, Malawi, renewable energy, tech, wind power (all these topics) |
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Arbor Slay
Poverty drives forest loss in Malawi |
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01 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Arbor Slay Poverty drives forest loss in Malawi Southern Africa's Malawi (yes, it's a country -- look it up) loses about 200 square miles of forest a year to illegal logging for firewood and charcoal; over a fifth of the nation's forests disappeared between 1990 and 2000. Twenty-three tree species are endangered, streams are drying up, air pollution is increasing, and some rivers get so clogged with silt that hydroelectric-powe ... |
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| Topics: deforestation, Malawi, news (all these topics) |
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Afri-can Do
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18 Apr 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Afri-can Do Seeking to capitalize on the potential of renewable energy sources, 10 African nations are collaborating to increase their combined geothermal power generation to 1,000 megawatts by 2020. Geothermal power yields electricity by trapping steam released by water reservoi ... |
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| Topics: Africa, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, green living, international government agencies, Kenya, Malawi, renewable energy, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, United Nations, Zambia (all these topics) |
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