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Issue 6 – Agribusiness: from farm to fork
This issue of Making It: Industry for Development looks at some aspects of the broad concept of agribusiness, often defined as the whole range of business activities that are performed from farm to fork, but also including the processing of raw materials for the production of many non-food items, such as textiles, paper and biofuel. [...]
Hot topic: Aviation – meeting the climate challenge
What the aviation industry is doing to stem the rising CO2 levels that lead to climate change
Building a productive foundation for achieving the MDGs
Ole Lundby discusses how developing countries can achieve social welfare objectives.
Bioenergy development in sub-Saharan Africa
Stephen Karekezi and John Kimani – AFREPREN/FWD (Energy, Environment, and Development Network for Africa), a non-governmental organization based in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Recent high oil and coal prices, as well as an intensified debate about climate change, have led many analysts to suggest that modern bioenergy development could mitigate the negative impacts of unstable fossil fuel [...]
Biofuels: a right to food perspective
Jean Ziegler, vice-chairperson of the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council, and former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (2000-2008).
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Every five seconds a child below ten years of age dies from hunger. Every four minutes somebody loses his/her eye-sight from a lack of Vitamin A. Every day 25,000 people [...]
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