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 <title><![CDATA[How our growing appetite for salmon is devastating coastal communities in Peru]]></title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:11 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The coast of Peru is being blighted by an industry sprung up to satisfy the West’s voracious appetite for salmon – marine life, human health and whole ecosystems are paying the price. Andrew Wasley and Jim Wickens report]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mexico's poor suffer as food speculation fuels tortilla crisis]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:28 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[UK shale gas boom 'may be dirtier than coal']]></title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:07 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Despite outrage in the US over ‘fracturing’ techniques used to extract shale gas and new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal, the UK has given the go-ahead to companies here to begin drilling. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential unconventional gas boom near Blackpool]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:07 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[The gas stored in the Marcellus Shale formation is the subject of desperate drilling to secure US domestic energy supplies. But the process involved - hydraulic fracturing - is the focus of a bitter dispute over environmental damage and community rights     <br/><br/> ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:22 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[With planning permission for Britain's biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted, The Ecologist travels to California to examine intensive milk production - and finds factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business... ]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:05 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[UK fund managers are selling investments in jatropha plantations as a wallet-swelling, planet-saving financial bonanza. But the reality for poor farmers is very different. Andrew Wasley reports]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:59 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Billed as wonder crop, the establishment of jatropha plantations on the ground in Tanzania has been far from successful, or, in some cases, ethical]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:01 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Plans to bulldoze an Indian mountain sacred to local people were controversial enough... before shareholder data revealed that a raft of UK household names, ranging from Jaguar cars to the Church of England, own shares in the company behind the mine, Vedanta Resources plc. Andrew Wasley reports]]></description>
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 <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:34 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[A new generation of biofuels is poised to come into the market. Grown on unused, ‘marginal’ land they won’t compete for our food crops. But just where exactly is all this marginal land, and whose backyard might it be? Helena Paul reports]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[10 reasons why organic can feed the world]]></title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:07 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark Anslow say yes, but we must eat and farm differently]]></description>
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