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Men and Women Farming Together Can Eradicate Hunger
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 1st, 2012
Inter Press Service: Three years ago, the residents of the semi-arid Yatta district in Kenya's Eastern Province lived on food aid due to dwindling crops of maize that could not thrive because of the decreased rainfall in the area.
That was until a local bishop, trying to find ways to prevent mothers from forcing their teenage daughters into prostitution, changed everything.
Now, on a Saturday evening in the district's village of Makutano, Stephen Mwangangi, his wife, Margaret, and their two children pick bullet...
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Climate change spawns salmon dilemma for San Joaquin River
Posted by Fresno Bee: Mark Grossi on September 1st, 2012
Fresno Bee: Skeptical farmers often ask a big key question about the $2 billion revival of the San Joaquin River and salmon runs: How can cold-water salmon possibly survive here as the climate heats up the river?
Prominent fishery biologist Peter Moyle replies that the San Joaquin will be an ideal place for salmon in the future. It will be a pipeline of chilly snowmelt from the high Sierra.
But for years, nobody has been able to settle that debate with science. Now, using a $1.5 million National Science...
Price of essentials rises by 10 per cent
Posted by Independent: Tom Bawden on September 1st, 2012
Independent: The G20 is under growing pressure to call an emergency food summit after the price of essentials jumped by ten per cent on average in July.
New research shows prices are at a record high following "an unprecedented summer of droughts and high temperatures". Cereal prices were particularly hard hit, with maize and wheat rising by a quarter and soybeans by 17 per cent, as poor weather decimated harvests in the US, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, according to the World Bank. The average global food...
Isaac remnants dumping heavy rain across Missouri, Illinois
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 1st, 2012
Reuters: The remnants of Hurricane Isaac were grinding slowing northward early on Saturday with its center now deep into Missouri and the heavy rain stretching for hundreds of miles east into Illinois amid reports of tornadoes and high winds, meteorologists said.
Drought-stricken areas of Missouri and Illinois were easily absorbing the rain Friday and the system was expected to soak the region deep into Sunday, said Jayson Gosselin, meteorologist with the National Weather Service's St. Louis-area office....