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		<title>Keep India Independent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After farming, retailing is India’s major occupation. It employs 40 million people. A sizeable majority of owner/employees are in the business because of lack of other opportunities. The decade of liberalisation has so far been one of jobless growth. It is no wonder that retail has become the refuge of these millions. Lopsided economic development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dying in Abundance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: RT.com]]></description>
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		<title>India suing Monsanto for Biopiracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>GM crops promote superweeds, food insecurity and pesticides, say NGOs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 11:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report finds genetically modified crops fail to increase yields let alone solve hunger, soil erosion and chemical-use issues. Genetic engineering has failed to increase the yield of any food crop but has vastly increased the use of chemicals and the growth of &#8220;superweeds&#8221;, according to a report by 20 Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The myths surrounding the global rush for farmland</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Vidal For a few thousands dollars a year, an Indian agribusiness, Karuturi, rents 2,500 sq km of land in Ethiopia&#8217;s Gambela province. Government ministers in Addis Ababa claim it is marginal, unused land, and its situation at the far western border with Sudan suggests this is so. In fact, the black soil is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redefining policy directions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Himanshu Jha India stands fourth in the list of countries ranked on the basis of number of billionaires. In 2011 we had 55 billionaires with a total world share of 4.5 per cent. A pretty straightforward record when we calculate the number of billionaires. Numbers become fuzzy when we start going about the business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US universities in Africa &#8216;land grab&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Institutions including Harvard and Vanderbilt reportedly use hedge funds to buy land in deals that may force farmers out. Harvard and other major American universities are working through British hedge funds and European financial speculators to buy or lease vast areas of African farmland in deals, some of which may force many thousands of people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Land Grabbing Now!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say NO to the principles of “responsible” agro-enterprise investment promoted by the World Bank State and private investors, from Citadel Capital to Goldman Sachs, are leasing or buying up tens of millions of hectares of farmlands in Asia, Africa and Latin America for food and fuel production. This land grabbing is a serious threat for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia&#8217;s largest greenhouse. Nestling below an escarpment of the Rift Valley, the development is far from finished, but the plastic and steel structure already stretches over 20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India’s democratic battle for safe food</title>
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		<comments>http://www.bhoomimatha.com/india%e2%80%99s-democratic-battle-for-safe-food/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government of India was forced by an overwhelming public opinion to declare a moratorium on the release of the transgenic Brinjal (Aubergines/Egg plant) hybrid developed by Mahyco, a subsidiary of American seed giant Monsanto. Bt brinjal is created by inserting a gene from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis into the brinjal cell. Monsanto claims [...]]]></description>
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