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Category: The Land Grabbers
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By Fred Pearce The World Health Organization has estimated that El Niño-related weather across the globe is putting sixty million people at increased risk of malnutrition. On track to being the strongest event since 1997-98, El Niño has caused droughts in countries such as India and South Africa that have staggered farming considerably. How will…
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Fred Pearce warns that Keystone XL is “no ordinary pipeline,” and that energy derived from tar sands comes with too high a price.
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A new book from Fred Pearce looks at a how Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
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Fred Pearce examines the promise and challenges of “climate-smart” agriculture.
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