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Africa's Flourishing Niger Delta Is Threatened by a Libyan Water Grab

Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360. February 3, 2011.

Mali's president and Libyan leader Gaddafi have begun a major agricultural project that will divert much of the river's water and put the delta's future at risk.

Food in Uncertain Times: How to Grow and Store the 5 Crops You Need to Survive

Makenna Goodman, Chelsea Green Publishing. October 21, 2010.

Having food resiliency is as much about learning how to store and use food properly as it is about growing it. The key is learning interdependence not independence.

Why Food Aid Should Be Bought Locally, Not Shipped Halfway Around the World

Yifat Susskind, AlterNet. October 14, 2010.

Food aid floods agricultural markets and destabilizes fragile local economies. But there is a solution: The U.S. can buy food aid crops directly from local farmers in Africa.

Food Haves and Have Nots: The Countries Facing the Best and Worst Scenarios in Food Security

Matthew McDermott, TreeHugger. August 20, 2010.

I guess we're not helping out so much in Afghanistan, as the country is ranked the least food secure nation in the world.

Beeline to Extinction: Saving Our Threatened Pollinators Is Key to Global Food Security

Naomi Starkman, Inside Scoop SF. May 27, 2010.

More than a third of U.S. managed honeybee colonies -- those set up for intensified pollination of commercial crops -- failed to survive this past winter.

Breadline USA: Why People Are Going Hungry in the Land of Plenty

Sasha Abramsky, PoliPoint Press. July 4, 2009.

America's poor are being priced out of a market flush with excess eatables. It's an abomination we can fix.

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