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The world can feed itself without ruining the planet, study says

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Darci Palmquist
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Author Jon Foley says feeding a growing world presents a huge challenge. But employing many strategies simultaneously can meet the problem.

Recent global population growth estimates (10 billion by 2100, anyone?) plus slowing annual increases in agricultural yields have a lot of analysts worried that many of those new people will suffer from chronic hunger – and that much of the land that hasn’t been converted to agriculture will be plowed under to grow crops.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2011/1014/The-world-can-feed-itself-without-ruining-the-planet-study-says/%28page%29/3

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We must make up ground in the fight against desertification

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A global partnership is needed to tackle the desertification that degrades more than 12m hectares of arable land every year, affecting some of the poorest and most food-insecure people

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/oct/18/fight-against-desertification?intcmp=122

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CPV World Map 2011

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CPV industry evolution: Your roadmap to sure-fi re market share
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will come together at the most infl uential CPV-focused event in the world.

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$48bn a year would provide electricity to the poor, report says

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Fiona Harvey
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Giving the poor access to electricity would bring huge gains in health, education and economic growth, with little increase in emmissions, according to International Energy Agency study

More than 1 billion people in poor countries around the world could have access to electricity within 20 years, if the international community is prepared to make the effort, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Monday.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/oct/11/provide-electricity-poor-energy-agency

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Deep Thinking About the Future of Food

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JUSTIN GILLIS
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Trying to tap into the best thinking about the future of global agriculture, as I have tried to do in my work as a reporter, can be an exercise in frustration. Many groups and many bright people go at the problem, but not many of them go at it in a holistic way.

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http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/deep-thinking-about-the-future-of-food/

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Objective

The WRSC’s objective is to provide an environment that facilitates solving the world’s energy challenges.  It does this by linking in-depth access to networked, globally distributed data on world resources, cultures, markets, global trends and conditions.  The WRSC will accelerate the planning and design solutions needed to accomplish world-wide environmentally sustainable development.

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Mission

To accelerate sustainable development in a manner that benefits all of humanity in the shortest amount of time.

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The philosophical foundation

The WRSC is in its founding premise stated as a question posed in R. Buckminster Fuller's World Game™ simulation:

“How do we make the world
work for 100% of humanity
in the shortest possible time
through spontaneous
cooperation without
ecological damage or
disadvantage to anyone?”

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