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...have been given credit and training by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), a high-profile effort to boost the production of small-scale farmers through better agricultural technology. Funded by the Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates foundations and chaired by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the group takes its name from earlier green revolutions in Latin America and Asia, where the introduction of hybrid seeds and chemical fertilizers is credited with rescuing hundreds of millions from starvation. (Read: "The Five Virtues of Kofi Annan...
...expensive now than in December. Palm oil, which is used in a wide variety of manufactured foods, has surged more than 50% this year. "The only area of the world economy I know of where the fundamentals are improving is commodities," says investment guru Jim Rogers. "The fundamentals for General Motors are not improving. The fundamentals for Citibank are not improving. The fundamentals for cotton are improving...
...reason: demand is recovering, slightly, for some raw materials. In the case of oil, supplies have been reduced by OPEC cutbacks. And commodities traders are bidding up market prices in general on expectations that supply shortages will return with just a modest improvement in demand. That's because miners, farmers and oil drillers, hit by the credit crunch, can't finance investments that would increase their production capacity. Many won't invest today even if they have access to financing because depressed prices make projects uneconomic. The amount of investment in the oil sector, for example, will likely...
...mutations that made past pandemic-causing viruses so deadly), but H1N1 could return next winter in a more lethal form--just as the virus that caused the catastrophic 1918 pandemic did. "This is a situation that can evolve," said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's interim assistant director-general for health, security and the environment. "If it does turn severe, this is something we have to jump...
Both assertions are highly suspect. Although the German people as a group were not guilty of mass murder, neither were they innocent dupes throughout the process. And the idea that Hitler killed 6 million Jews to get at Christianity approaches the perverse. When Jewish groups complained, Benedict devoted a general audience to condemning anti-Semitism--although he revisited neither his church's nor his homeland's role in the Holocaust...