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As Food Prices Rise…
I could talk for days about the causes and effects of rising food prices in the US. Disadvantaged Americans queue for aid in New York Its becoming a BIG DEAL. In the past year 1.3 million new...
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City Beautiful Movement, 1890-1910
Cityscape by City Beautiful Reformer Jacob A. Riis, 1890 From 1860-1910 the US population jumped from 31.4 million to 91.9 million. That means that over this span of forty years the population tripled...
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Depression Relief Gardens: 1930-1938
Youngstown Depression Relief Gardens, 1932. The Great Depression struck the the United States at the end of 1929 and lasted until 1939. This economic disaster affected the economy of the entire world...
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Manufacturing a Food Crisis
Written for The Nation on May 15, 2008 by WALDEN BELLO When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the price of tortillas, many...
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A Multipronged Approach to Ensuring Food Security
From Innovations Report 14.05.2008 In 1996, 180 nations—including Canada—met in Rome for the World Food Summit (WFS) to discuss ways to end hunger. Nations pledged to eradicate hunger and committed...
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FoodShare: sweet urban agriculture in Toronto
“Carrots!” says this young intern from FoodShare, a Toronto non profit urban agriculture program IDRC Photo by Laura Berman FoodShare is an organization that take a broad look at the entire food system...
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