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		<title>Dept of Justice Announces Agriculture Competition Workshop Dates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in August, the Department of Justice announced an investigation into competition issues in the agricultural sector. This week, the Department released details of the workshops to be held, &#8220;to promote dialogue amongst interested parties.&#8221;
Public attendance and participation are encouraged in these workshops, and those seeking to get involved are encouraged to submit written comments [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoods.wordpress.com&blog=2226702&post=1002&subd=localfoods&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study Reveals Almost Half of American Children Will Use Food Stamps</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study released this month reveal that 49% of American children will be in a household that uses food stamps at some point during their childhood. The study, conducted by Mark Rank and Thomas Hirschl at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis, is based on 30 years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoods.wordpress.com&blog=2226702&post=994&subd=localfoods&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FAO Forum Addresses Global Food Supply for 2050</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking at a forum addressing the challenges of feeding the world in 2050, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said that agriculture must become more productive in order to feed the world&#8217;s growing population:
&#8220;Agriculture will have no choice but to be more productive. Our analysis shows that future production increases would mostly come from yield growth and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoods.wordpress.com&blog=2226702&post=983&subd=localfoods&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Power to Expand Overseas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another interesting development for one of the most exciting Urban Agriculture programs: the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) announced &#8211; among many other commitments &#8211; that Milwaukee-based Growing Power will be branching out to work on food security issues in South Africa and Zimbabwe. The CGI Fifth Annual Meeting press release stated that: 
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		<title>Obama on Exercise, School Lunches, and a White House Farmers&#8217; Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, Obama addressed the Organizing for America Health Care Forum, and in response to a question regarding food and exercise, spoke about the possibility of food system reform and establishing a farmers&#8217; market at the White House.
His answer recognized the direct impact that conventional food systems have on the nation&#8217;s children through school lunches [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoods.wordpress.com&blog=2226702&post=971&subd=localfoods&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time Magazine Gets Real About the High Price of Cheap Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cover story of Time Magazine&#8217;s Aug 21 issue today puts cheap food in the spotlight, and lays out a strong argument against the conventional food system. Following in the footsteps of Food Inc. and King Corn, Bryan Walsh&#8217;s article runs readers through the standard arguments against the mainstream, corn-heavy food system. Industrial animal production [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoods.wordpress.com&blog=2226702&post=967&subd=localfoods&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dept. of Justice to Examine Competition Issues in Agriculture</title>
		<link>http://localfoods.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/dept-of-justice-examine-competition-issues-agriculture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exciting news from the Department of Justice last week: the Department&#8217;s Antitrust Division is to run a series of workshops exploring competition issues in the agriculture sector, with the aim of developing an appropriate regulatory policy for the agriculture industry.
This engagement will take the form of a series of joint public workshops held by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoods.wordpress.com&blog=2226702&post=962&subd=localfoods&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vilsack declares Aug 23-29 National Community Gardening Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced last week that August 23-29 will be National Community Gardening Week, and declared the need for Americans to connect with the land, the food it grows, and their local communities.
A community garden is an opportunity to educate everyone about from where food comes, whether that is a Farmers Market or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoods.wordpress.com&blog=2226702&post=958&subd=localfoods&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UK Government Calls For &#8216;Radical Rethink&#8217; of Food Production</title>
		<link>http://localfoods.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/uk-government-radical-rethink-food-production/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Annoucing the release of a package of food system research yesterday, Hilary Benn called for a &#8220;radical  rethink of how we produce and consume our food&#8221;. I couldn&#8217;t agree more.
Benn, UK Government Secretary for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, said that:
we need to consider what food system should look like in 20 years, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=localfoods.wordpress.com&blog=2226702&post=936&subd=localfoods&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eliot Coleman Contributes to Meat-Eating vs. Climate Change Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just want to offer my opinion on a recent thread of the debate about the impact of meat-eating on climate change, and what&#8217;s best to do about it. I&#8217;m particularly interested in what Eliot Coleman had to say about the issue in a recent letter to Grist, but I&#8217;ll give you the backstory first.
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