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Canada extends review of Potash takeover bidOttawa (AFP) Oct 4, 2010 Canadian authorities Monday extended their review of a huge takeover offer for Potash Corp. by Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton, a bid watched closely in China. Industry Minister Tony Clement said he was extending by 30 days his review of the bid for Potash, the world's biggest maker of fertilizer. "I will take the time necessary to do a thorough review of this investment proposal," he said in a statement. BHP Billiton made a hostile 40-billion US dollar takeover bid for the Canadi ... read more |
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Rome (AFP) Sept 28, 2010For more than two decades, Carlo Petrini has been gently nudging the world towards "good, clean and fair" food, signing up 100,000 people in 163 countries to his Slow Food movement. "Philosophically, finding slowness again is essential. We need to take a small, homeopathic dose of it every day, to come back to a life rhythm that is more bearable," the 61-year-old Italian told AFP in an inter ... more  
Paris (AFP) Sept 29, 2010The vast majority of the world's rivers are reeling from pollution, over-development and excessive extraction, and billions of dollars of investment by rich countries to avert water stress have damaged biodiversity, a study released on Wednesday said. "Rivers around the world really are in a crisis state," said one of its authors, Peter McIntyre, a professor of Zoology at the University of W ... more 
Buenos Aires (UPI) Sep 30, 2010 Food and Agriculture Organization officials attending a meat congress in Buenos Aires warned the world faced a developing crisis in beef production as global human population would soon outstrip the numbers that current or future supplies from livestock farming could feed. Henning Steinfeld, coordinator of livestock, environment and development initiative at the FAO, warned delegates be ... more |
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Urban Gardeners BewareIndianapolis IN (SPX) Sep 29, 2010 Not since victory gardens helped World War II era Americans on the home front survive food shortages have urban gardens been as necessary and popular as they are today. With more food production in cities, the safety of the produce grown there becomes increasingly important. As city dwellers across the country are harvesting fruits and vegetables for family consumption and planning ahead for the next planting season, geochemist Gabriel Filippelli, Ph.D., professor of earth sciences at the School o ... read more |
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