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...civil war in neighboring Congo - has left the authoritarian president in real danger of being voted out of office. After losing a February referendum on a constitution that would have authorized his land seizures, Mugabe upped the ante by ordering his supporters to simply invade and occupy white-owned farmland. Despite a ruling by the country's high court that these actions are illegal, Mugabe has forbidden the police from evicting squatters from some 600 farms. The president's campaign - which threatens to drive away foreign aid donors and investors - appears to be a desperate bid to rally rural voters...
...have converted woodlands and prairies to farmland virtually all over the globe. Our cities, suburbs and malls have paved over natural communities, and pollution and overfishing are rapidly destroying our rivers, lakes and oceans. As these ecosystems go down, we are losing perhaps 30,000 species of animals and plants a year, out of perhaps 10 million total species, even though we still deeply rely on at least 40,000 species for food, shelter, clothing and fuel. We rely on natural products to replenish genetic diversity in our crops and to produce new medicines. We rely on pristine ecosystems...
...announcement by the U.N. has dredged up all the old population growth fears first vocalized during the 1960s, fears which included starvation due to the overuse of farmland, worldwide epidemics, irreparable damage to countless species and habitats, and even global chaos and anarchy. Forty years and 3 billion people later, we seem only a few small steps closer to understanding and solving the problem of widescale overcrowding. It's a multifaceted battle that pits the optimists against the pessimists and the economists against the ecologists...
...speech after Forbes finishes his on flat tax and fortitude. Grubbs, an Iowan, is an example of the modern Iowa, which has become big-part yuppie, little-part farmers and small towners. But for all its struggle to be like California and Connecticut, most of Iowa's area remains farmland, and the crops underlie the economy. The biggest political pretenders must at some time or another take off their suit coats and go to the land where strange things can happen...
...homes can be built in areas already zoned for development. SOAR is an attempt to say some areas have to remain precious." Opposition came mainly from a local farmers' organization. Why? An appraisal by the city of Ventura concluded that 87 acres would be worth $1.6 million as farmland but $13 million if zoned for development. "The people of this county have taken away my property rights," says Howard Atkinson, 51, who inherited part of a 57-acre ranch...