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Crop subsidies switched to feeding needy
[ AG Weekly ]
May 05, 2008 WASHINGTON - Most people call it a farm bill. But it's really more of a food bill. That's even more true this year as negotiators, spurred by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other urban lawmakers, move dollars from crop subsidies to food stamps and other programs for feeding the needy.
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New farm bill nearly in barn
[ La Vista Sun ]
May 05, 2008 WASHINGTON -- This time last year, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, was saying he wanted to send a new farm bill to President Bush well before the 2007 fall harvest.
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India asks ADB not to disengage from agr
[ The Economic Times ]
May 05, 2008 India on Monday bluntly told the Asian Development Bank that it is both premature and inappropriate for the institution to disengage itself from agriculture at a time when the escalating food prices across the world is hurting poor the most.
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Africa High Food Prices Could Benefit Fa
[ AllAfrica.com ]
May 05, 2008 The urban poor, who have to purchase their food, are facing considerable difficulties due to high prices of global cereal grains, especially rice, wheat maize.
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Agricultural trade - Sen. Edgardo Angara
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Sen. Edgardo, 2008 Global trade in agriculture is unfair, skewed in favor of rich countries and against the poor. Huge domestic support and export subsidies provided by developed countries to their farmers render the farm products of developing countries uncompetitive.
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Locals Developing Taste For Locally Grow
[ New London Day ]
May 05, 2008 Hartford - Concerns about food contamination and the environmental impact of long-haul transportation are stoking demand for locally grown food in Connecticut. Customers at Urban
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Has Orange County's farm tap run dry? Ta
[ Orlando Sentinel ]
May 05, 2008 You might not think much of Orange County's role in farming. Perhaps it's time to re-evaluate. Orange trees bloomed recently along Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando. But the fragrant blossoms were on small trees in concrete planters, placed there for decoration.
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BAAC eyes top lending spot
[ Bangkok Post ]
Thailand's English, 2008 For much of its 51 years, the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Co-operatives has stood in the shadow of its larger brethren, the Government Savings Bank and Government Housing Bank. Not any more.
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Homeowners practice urban farming in QC
[ Philippine Daily Inquirer ]
May 04, 2008 MANILA, Philippines—Green beds of pechay and lettuce, plots of kangkong and saluyot, and fruit-laden trellises of ampalaya and upo have taken the place of weeds and grass in several vacant lots in Mapayapa Village III, Capitol Site in Quezon City.
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