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Our Consumer Power
Rising food costs and food insecurity prompted the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to commission a report on food loss. The results are nothing but striking. Each year 1.3 billion tons of food is lost or wasted, representing about a third of the food produced for human consumption. What the report defines as losses occur…
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Something Good In Darfur
Because Darfur is almost a synonym for suffering, it’s so gratifying to read about something good happening there. The UN-African Union peacekeeping force (UNAMID) sponsored a project in 8 villages of North Darfur which will facilitate access to water. More importantly this kind of access means that the sexual and gender based violence associated with…
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From The Consumer POV?
Nestle’s Chairman, Peter Brabeck has some definite ideas about water. “Selling water on exchanges the same way other commodities are traded could help solve a shortage of the world’s most precious raw material likely to hit long before oil runs out,” he said. A strong believer in the forces of the market, he cited the…
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