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• World Hunger and Energy

• Genetically Modified Crops

• American Farmland Trust  protect ag resources
• Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas sustainable farm practices
• Center for Rural Affairs stand up for social justice, economic opportunity, environment
• Common Dreams The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has singled out six countries with an “exceptional shortfall in aggregate food production and supplies”: Lesotho, Somalia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Iraq and Moldova. ... An additional six countries with “widespread lack of access” to food include Eritrea, Liberia, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and North Korea
• Community Alliance with Family Farmers  foster family-scale agriculture
• ENS Environmental News Service Food Riots Face of World Hunger
• Farm Aid  provide assistance to family farmers as well as poor and needy families in rural farming communities
• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy  dedicated to promoting resilient family farms, rural communities, and ecosystems around the world through research, education, science, technology and advocacy
• National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture  consumer advocates focusing on federal food and agriculture policies, public education and community outreach
• National Family Farm Coalition
   working on family farm issues
• PSRAST Physicians and Scientists for Responsible Application of Science and Technology, Genetically engineering of food increases risk of mass starvation, ... inherently unpredictable, hazardous substances, potentially harmful environmental effects, no need for them to feed the world, global warming will bring climatic instability, extreme weather conditions, droughts, floods, GE crops more vulnerable than conventional crops,
• Rodale Institute
   work with people worldwide, achieve a regenerative food system ,
• Rural Advancement Foundation International USA An organization dedicated to community, equity, and diversity in agriculture
• Rural Coalition/Coalicion Rural
   70 regionally and culturally diverse organizations, sustainable food systems
• Truthout Sixty countries backed by the World Bank and most UN bodies yesterday called for radical changes in world farming to avert increasing regional food shortages, escalating prices and growing environmental problems. ... But in a move that has led to the US, UK, Australia and Canada not yet endorsing the report, the authors said GM technology was not a quick fix to feed the world's poor and argued that growing biofuel crops for automobiles threatened to increase worldwide malnutrition.
• Workers.org  obesity a problem in U. S., but 1 billion people go hungry around the world, ten million children die each year from malnutrition, ... we need to understand the appropriate applications of modern technology, analyze hunter-gatherer techniques,

   

• Summary To alleviate hunger: Prevent Northern Hemisphere oligopolies from taking control of Southern Hemisphere food production systems Bush promotes biofuels, food prices skyrocket, elect Obama,

   
• Discuss.Extremetech.com
• Center for the Environment and Society, Professor Jules Pretty, Essex, 2 million farmers using proper sustainable practices, including composting, food cooperatives, more employment, labor-intensive jobs, a holistic food system, stop conglomerate farm corporations who are trying to rule the world by starving and polluting it.
• Food First
• Georgia State University, World Hunger glossary
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• Helium  Organic Farming 
• Independent Community Food Banks
• National Catholic Rural Life Conference
  A national Catholic organization whose mission is to urge public action on hunger, rural life, family farms, and environmental stewardship
• New York Magazine search Clinton hunger world  ...   Bill Clinton's Plan for World Domination, On September 15, the former president will be hosting the grandly titled Clinton Global Initiative, a conference timed to coincide with the World Summit at the U.N. The guest list features an impressive and eccentric mix of moguls, heads of state, and problem-solvers—from Sonia Gandhi to George Soros to Rupert Murdoch
• New York Post U.S. food prices rose 4 percent in 2007, compared with an average 2.5 percent annual rise for the last 15 years, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And the agency says 2008 could be worse, with a rise of as much as 4.5 percent.
• UIC.edu Population Growth I: Children and World Hunger; Food and Energy Food riots are currently on the rise across the globe, caused less by shortfalls in world food production than by the rising food prices that increased 45 percent in the past 9 months (July 2007 through March 2008), according to the FAO.
• Bush Fascism page.

• BBC
• BP, ethanol, takes more energy to produce from corn than the energy produced by burning it. ... but diesel engines were invented to run on peanut oil.
• Bush promotes biofuels, food prices skyrocket, great profit opportunity for conservative business, neo-cons
• See NewsFollowUp research page on Ronald Roskens
•   more  Kent State shootings, 1970, and Ronald Roskens
• Ronald Roskens, Kent State, 1970, "Get the one with the beads".
• Care, Cindy Hensley McCain, McSame, Bush 41, Bush 43, 
• ConAgra Board of Directors: Mogens C. Bay, Valmont Industries; Stephen G. Butler, KPMG; Gen. John T. Chain Jr., Thomas Group; Steven F. Goldstone, Silver Spring Group, Nabisco Group, RJR Nabisco; Dr. Alice B. Hayes, University of San Diego; W. G. Jurgensen, Nationwide Mutual Insurance; Ruth Ann Marshal, Mastercard International; Mark H. Rauenhorst, Opus Corp; Carl E. Reichardt, Ford Motor Company; Gary M. Rodkin, ConAgra Foods, Inc.; Dr. Ronald W. Roskens, Global Connections; Andrew J. Schindler, Reynolds American, Reynolds Tobacco; Kenneth E. Sinson, Peter Kiewet Sons' Inc.
• CFR How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor
• Food and Agriculture Organization Forum to Address Food Insecurity and Poverty in Israel
• Ghana School Feeding Program
• Global Food Banking   Kellogs, DLA Piper, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Agricultural Companies, Cargill Inc.; ConAgra Foods; Grocery Products Businesses, H.E. Butt Company; Kraft Foods; Procter & Gamble; Silliker; USDA; Alliance to End Hunger; Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); Forum to Address Food Insecurity and Poverty in Israel; Ghana School Feeding Program; Independent Community Food Banks; Joint Aid Management (JAM) in South Africa; MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger; National Council of Churches; National Food Bank Networks; Share Our Strength; US Congressional Hunger Center; Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc.
• Joint Aid Management (JAM) in South Africa  JAM
• MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger
• National Council of Churces
• National Food Banks Networks Share Our Strength
• RFF Resources for the Future
• Silliker
• US Congressional Hunger Center
• USAID search Conagra,
• WFP World Food Program
• World Hunger Board of Directors, many references to USAID, World Food Program
• notes: post World War II was beginning of pesticides, herbicides, but pollutes ground water, air, ... transportation of crops over long distances injects too much CO2, 

• Common Dreams "The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has singled out six countries with an “exceptional shortfall in aggregate food production and supplies”: Lesotho, Somalia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Iraq and Moldova. ...  An additional six countries with “widespread lack of access” to food include Eritrea, Liberia, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and North Korea. ... The steep rise in basic foodstuffs has already sparked demonstrations and/or riots in Egypt, Cameroon, Haiti and Burkina Faso, while an increase in both fuel and food prices has triggered unrest in Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Mozambique and Senegal. ... The FAO has also warned of impending political and social unrest, specifically in countries where 50 to 60 percent of a family’s income is spent on food. ... “If the basic food requirements of vast numbers of the poor remain beyond them, with a broad range of consequences to their well-being, they will probably have no alternative than to make themselves ‘heard’ by taking to the streets,” says Ernest Corea, until recently a senior consultant with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) at the World Bank."
• Ford Foundation Board of Trustees David G. Hawkins, Director of the Climate Center, Natural Resources Defense Council; R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean, Columbia Business School, Columbia University; Charles F. Kalmbach, Chief Executive Officer, DBM, Inc.; Michael A. Mantell, Attorney, Resources Law Group; Steven W. Percy, Former CEO, BP America; Peter J. Robertson, Vice Chairman of the Board, Chevron Corporation; Matthew R. Simmons, Chairman, Simmons & Company International; Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business & Government. Chairman of the Environment & Natural Resources Faculty Group, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Joseph Stiglitz, Professor of Economics, Business & International Affairs, Columbia University School of Business
• Food First "But then confusing economic demand with actual availability, the Times jumps to a dubious solution. Quoting World Bank president Robert Zoellick, the paper calls for “[A] ‘green revolution’ to increase farm productivity and raise crop yields in Africa.” This was of course, a likely response from the World Bank, the institution that, along with the International Monetary Fund, forcibly applied the Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) responsible for destroying the capacity of African nations to develop or protect their own domestic agricultural systems from the dumping of subsidized grain from the U.S. and Europe. Over the same 25 years in which SAPs were being implemented, the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) invested over 40% if its $350 million/year budget in Africa’s “Green Revolution.” The result? A big zero. Actually, it was worse, because as African marketing boards, agricultural ministries, national research programs and basic infrastructure fell under the scythe of the mighty SAPs, Africa’s agricultural systems steadily eroded. Now their entire food systems are hopelessly vulnerable to economic and environmental shock—hence the severity of the current food price inflation crisis."
• Helium, Organic farming and world hunger, organic practices common in places where land ownership not centralized by agribusiness, ... subsistence farmers on small plots, feed the soil that feeds them, ultimately we have to live by natures rules, how long will it take us to recover from the damage done by industrial agriculture? We have to understand natural cycles,  The undoing of modern ag will be its dependence on cheap oil, ... natural fertilizers and pesticides won' t produce modern yields but will win in the long term. Chemical intensive mono-cropping degrades the topsoil.  Study indigenous peoples systems, permacultures, ecosystems, diverse selection of interdependent crops.  

• Care, Board of Directors W. Bowman Cutter, III; Helene D. Gayle; Lynn Walker Huntley; John P. Morgridge; Dean C. Kehler; Carol Hudson; Peter D. Bell; Philip Johnston; Richard J. Almeida; Heller Financial; Kathryn Christensen; Gilles Concordel; Susan Crown; Henry Crown & Company; W. Bowman Cutter, III; Warburg Pincus, LLC; Katharin S. Dyer; Digitas LLC; Maria Echaveste; Nueva Vista Group, LLC; Helene D. Gayle President and CEO, CARE; Lynn Walker Huntley, Southern Education Foundation; Dean C. Kehler. Trimaran Capital Partners. Kenneth Lehman. KKP Group LLC; Cindy Hensley McCain, Hensley Company, Meissner; Migration Policy Institute, Afaf I. Meleis Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing, Nachiket Mor, ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth, John P. Morgridge, Cisco Systems Randall E. Pond, Virginia Sall, La Leche League International, William D. Unger, Mayfield Fund, Monica Vachher, The Astor Group, Deidra Wager, DJW, LLC