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...Speaking during the Rome stop of his European tour, President Bush responded, "We'll abide by the court's decision. That doesn't mean I have to agree with...
...from being food exporters in the 1980s to relying heavily on foreign food aid today. In short, the world is suddenly hungry because of decades of neglect. "It is as much a question of complacency as anything else," says Charles Riemenschneider, head of the FAO's Investment Center in Rome...
...Betting on the Farm The outlook is not unrelentingly bleak, however. Leaders meeting in Rome pledged - at least in theory - to spend billions more dollars for agricultural programs. African governments and international organizations now face the task of getting new projects off the ground quickly. Obstacles abound. After decades of neglect, transportation networks for getting crops to market consist mainly of rutted dirt roads; irrigation systems are in a shambles; and there's little access to credit for poor farmers. Aid agencies are starting some programs virtually from scratch. "There are very few plans to take off the shelf," says...
...energy prices is at a definitive end, and to that, Rainwater offers a clearer answer: No way. He began formulating his big oil bet after reading the 1992 book Beyond the Limits, a wonky, statistics-driven--and extremely frightening--follow-up to the famed and controversial 1972 Club of Rome report on resource depletion, The Limits to Growth. Since then he's remained an avid consumer of the more apocalyptic visions (war, global economic collapse) of what could happen as oil production peaks. "This is the first scenario I've seen where I question the survivability of mankind," he told...
...Tensions are rising as Zimbabwe's June 27 runoff elections approach. On June 4, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was detained by police, just a day after foreign-aid agencies that help feed thousands of people were shut down for allegedly supporting him--ironically, while President Robert Mugabe was in Rome for a U.N. food-crisis summit...