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		<title>Water Poverty in the Middle East: more than a desertification issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural irrigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best practices for water management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[efficient water use]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food shortage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Syria’s International Centre for Agriculture Research in Dry 
Areas (ICARDA)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water and Livelihoods Initiative (WLI)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water scarcity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Shortage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world water poverty line]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Water scarcity has ceased to be a desertification issue in dry regions. The phenomena of climate change and global warming have now come into consideration. Arching over these serious problems are the twin realities of food shortage and hunger. All these are connected to the most basic problem of water shortage. Scott James in blue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2009</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/some-of-time%e2%80%99s-best-inventions-of-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discoveries &amp; Developments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sci + Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Inventions of 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best new gadgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[breakthrough ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food shortage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food supplies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herschel Space Observatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hydroponic-farming system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LED bulb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philips Electronics light bulb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pioneering ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scanning the sky in the infrared spectrum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[southern bluefin tuna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tank-bred tuna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[telescope for invisible stars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vertical farming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TIME has picked its choices for best inventions of 2009. Those that got the votes range from best new gadgets to best new breakthrough ideas of the year. Here are some: The breeding population of the highly migratory southern bluefin tuna has dipped to more than 90 percent since the 1950s. It seemed that the [...]]]></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>
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		<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>World Food Day reminder: Recession + Food Insecurity = Worsening World Hunger</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/world-food-day-reminder-recession-food-insecurity-worsening-world-hunger/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/world-food-day-reminder-recession-food-insecurity-worsening-world-hunger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[developed countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[developing countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food and Agriculture Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global economic crisis worsening world hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global economic downturn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global food insecurity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[malnourished people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skyrocketing food prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Food Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Summit on Food Security 2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world’s poorest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world’s rural areas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world’s small-scale farms]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[worsening poverty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The problem of food insecurity affects the world’s small-scale farms and rural areas the most. This is because these places are also where ‘70 percent of the world&#8217;s hungry live and work.’ As the world commemorates World Food Day on October 16, some depressing statistics confront the governments of the world: an estimated increase of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Steep Slide into Poverty: A New Category Resulting from the Recession</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/the-steep-slide-into-poverty-a-new-category-resulting-from-the-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/the-steep-slide-into-poverty-a-new-category-resulting-from-the-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Armenia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Shock and Hunger Index]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[export sectors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G8 summit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[global economic crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job layoffs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[malnutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicaragua]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poorest people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reduction in meals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remittances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slide into poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unskilled workers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urban areas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zambia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=16546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has developed an index of economic shock and food entitled ‘Economic Shock and Hunger Index.’ Based on a study of the five countries of Armenia, Bangladesh, Ghana, Zambia, and Nicaragua, the responses of households reveal a rather similar pattern: reduction in the number of meals, option for cheaper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Phenomenon of Agricultural Relocation: Countries Buying Farmlands Abroad</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/the-phenomenon-of-agricultural-relocation-countries-buying-farmlands-abroad/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/the-phenomenon-of-agricultural-relocation-countries-buying-farmlands-abroad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[agricultural lands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural relocation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[declining water resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domestic production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[extraterritorial annexes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food importation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign farmland purchase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil monarchies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qatar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rapid urbanization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UAE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wheat]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=13322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2006, Beijing signed agreements on agricultural cooperation with several African countries that led to the installation of 14 farms in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Tanzania. By 2010, there will be one million Chinese peasants in Africa. The official goal: to help host countries increase production through Chinese technologies. The hybrid varieties of rice developed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saudi Arabia’s new tack in food security: grain importation</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/saudi-arabia%e2%80%99s-new-tack-in-food-security-grain-importation/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/saudi-arabia%e2%80%99s-new-tack-in-food-security-grain-importation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 12:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural land]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cereal importation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decrease domestic production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmlands investments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grain importation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[industrial farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irrigation policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[raw materials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rice importer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speculative purchases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[staple food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thailand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN FAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wheat export]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wheat production]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=13189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when the Saudi kingdom made food a national cause in spite of unfavorable natural conditions. In the three decades between 1971 and 2000, thanks to a policy of irrigation supported by public funds, agricultural land rose from 0.4 to 1.6 million hectares, with concentration in the provinces of Hail and Qassim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Security: Still a Political Failure</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/food-security-still-a-political-failure/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/food-security-still-a-political-failure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agricultural raw materials]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food riots]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food shortage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G-20 2009 summit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[G8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[London]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[malnutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soaring food prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stability of international politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN FAO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=12118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Malnutrition in the world is progressing. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), more than one billion people will suffer from malnutrition in 2009, against 963 million at the end of 2008. There would be a need for 30 billion euros per year to fight hunger and boost family agriculture. Just a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genetics of Sorghum: Secret No More</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/genetics-of-sorghum-secret-no-more/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/genetics-of-sorghum-secret-no-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discoveries &amp; Developments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sci + Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biofuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sorghum]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=6772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ubiquitous in the African landscape, sorghum is a grass that is native to Africa and feeds millions of people in the continent. Recently, scientists from Rutgers University have described the genome of the &#8216; Sorghum bicolor,&#8217; and say that they have opened up new possibilities by which to exploit the potential of the plant as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High-Yield Crops Killed Other Crop Species</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/high-yield-crops-killed-other-crop-species/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/high-yield-crops-killed-other-crop-species/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commercial farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crop diversification]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crop species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high-yield crops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainable agriculture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Crop diversity is at an all time low. When farmers and growers favor planting a high-yield crop variety, they also irreversibly killed off the other species of that crop. This form of farming, long been a practice in commercial farm production, eventually led to the loss of agricultural sustainability all over the world. Potato and [...]]]></description>
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