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		<title>Correlation between Pesticide Exposure and Risk of Prostate Cancer: Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A significant new study that was recently undertaken by medical scientists, toxicologists, and epidemiologists Carol Christensen, Elizabeth Platz, Gabriella Andreott, Aaron Blair, Jane Hoppin, Stella Koutros, Charles Lynch, Dale Sandler, and Michael Alavanja entitled “Coumaphos Exposure and Incident Cancer among Male Participants in the Agricultural Health Study (AHS)” claims that pesticide exposure raises the risk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmers assert that genetically-engineered crops is not the answer</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/farmers-assert-that-genetically-engineered-crops-is-not-the-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/farmers-assert-that-genetically-engineered-crops-is-not-the-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemical herbicides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemical-free food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conventional agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[damage to crops and environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming chemical inputs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food insecurity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fossil fuels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GE contamination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GE crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GE soya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetically-engineered crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impacts of climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial farming system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nutrient-rich soils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protecting biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shortage of grain production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world hunger]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=30287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a price to pay for technology. Often, it is the environment, and eventually the world’s peoples, that pay this hefty price. ‘The costly development of technologies like GE as &#8216;solutions&#8217; to world hunger or climate change, mask their real socio-economic, environmental and political causes.’ Contrary to suggestions that genetically engineered (GE) crops ‘will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Gates funding genetic experimentation of agricultural crops</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/bill-gates-funding-genetic-experimentation-of-agricultural-crops/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/bill-gates-funding-genetic-experimentation-of-agricultural-crops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discoveries &amp; Developments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sci + Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Gates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought-resistant GM crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[end world hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetically manipulated crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global effort to help small farmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM crops lead to even greater crop homogenization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM crops threaten stability of global food supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM increasing crop yield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM leading to pest resistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GMO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ideological wedge in GM food debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[raising yields and farming expertise in the developing world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Gates Foundation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=26990</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Gates reveals that the debate and conflict over GM foods are threatening the efforts of The Gates Foundation in its attempt to end world hunger. ‘An &#8220;ideological wedge&#8221; threatens his global effort to help farmers.’ Over the recent years, The Gates Foundation has been ‘helping alleviate hunger and poverty by giving small farmers the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jodhpur flooding amid India’s drought</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/jodhpur-flooding-amid-india%e2%80%99s-drought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blue City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[desert city]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haryana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian farmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India’s delayed monsoons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India’s drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indira Gandhi canal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irrigation infrastructure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jodhpur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nasa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Punjab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rajasthan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rising waters amid drought]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=26735</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While India is under its worst drought in 20 years, the desert city of Jodhpur also known as Blue City, long a popular tourist spot, is slowly flooding because of the Indira Gandhi canal, a massive irrigation infrastructure that ‘diverts water from the northern &#8220;breadbasket&#8221; state of Punjab down to Haryana and Rajasthan.’ Jodhpur, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Combating desertification: imperative component of the new climate deal</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/combating-desertification-imperative-component-of-the-new-climate-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/combating-desertification-imperative-component-of-the-new-climate-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural grassroots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural land use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change negotiations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[loss of the land's productive capacity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rural poor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=24418</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Organized by the Dryland Science for Development (DSD) Consortium, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) holds a global scientific conference with the main topic of desertification-climate change nexus. The global conference, entitled “Understanding Desertification and Land Degradation Trends,” is being held in connection with the Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ultra-elite club of G7 makes way for G20 to be the broader global economic forum</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/the-ultra-elite-club-of-g7-makes-way-for-g20-to-be-the-broader-global-economic-forum/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/the-ultra-elite-club-of-g7-makes-way-for-g20-to-be-the-broader-global-economic-forum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bigger world populations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breaking down trade barriers]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=24405</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The developing countries will now play a more significant role in the economic policies of the world. The ultra-elite club of the richest industrial nations known as G7 will relinquish its top level global economic forum to the much broader G20 that includes the emerging economies and developing countries such as China, Brazil, and India. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil ready to escalate US trade dispute</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/brazil-ready-to-escalate-us-trade-dispute/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/brazil-ready-to-escalate-us-trade-dispute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NARUTO</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cotton]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=22546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Brazil is getting ready to break the patents of North American pharmaceutical products if the World Organization of the Trade decides today that the country can make it, in retaliation to the subsidies granted to the North American cotton farmers, it informed the Brazilian press. Brazil challenged the subsidies of the USA to the cotton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Serbia: One of the Countries Badly Hit by Recession</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/serbia-one-of-the-countries-badly-hit-by-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/serbia-one-of-the-countries-badly-hit-by-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=22215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Serbia has suffered for long on account of both its history and geography. Now it is suffering yet again due to its own economy and impact of global recession. One would rarely find any other nations in Europe like these former Yugoslavian breakaway nations &#8211; they never seem to recover and heal completely. First wars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World of Pygmies</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/the-world-of-pygmies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society &amp; Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[forest predators]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[makeshift camps]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pygmies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tubers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=17463</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pygmies are basically a nomadic people. None of them knows that their oral traditions are part of the recently acknowledged ‘intangible heritage of humanity.’ Pygmies do not exactly live as their ancestors. Today, they wear t-shirts and even plastic shoes. They have long traded their crossbows to gun craft. They have learned the use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>e-Biosphere: A ‘Virtual Observatory’ for the People, by the People</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/e-biosphere-a-%e2%80%98virtual-observatory%e2%80%99-for-the-people-by-the-people/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/e-biosphere-a-%e2%80%98virtual-observatory%e2%80%99-for-the-people-by-the-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 04:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biodiversity overview]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fauna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gigantic database]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[monitoring life on earth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ordinary citizens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smithsonian Institution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[virtual observatory]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=15538</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An ‘e-Biosphere’ summit, organized by Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) which is based at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, will be held on June 1-3 in London. Approximately 400 personalities and authorities in the fields of biology and technology coming from 50 countries will discuss about the plans to design and compile an ‘Internet-based observatory of [...]]]></description>
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