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on global justice, climate change, cricket, living in Winchester and other trials of patience

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Flooded Thai rice delivers wake-up call to G20

The potentially powerful Committee on World Food Security has failed to follow up recommendations on measures to control escalating world food prices. If the Committee had gathered in Bangkok, it might have reached a different conclusion.

Published October 27, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged biofuels, food prices, food security, nepal

Europeans fish for biofuels in Senegal

Egged on by European energy companies, Senegal has ambitious plans for producing biodiesel from jatropha. The country also targets self-sufficiency in food. Is there a contradiction here?

Published March 1, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged biofuels, food security, senegal
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Editor of Tread Softly briefings on global justice. Involved with local renewable energy, Hampshire Hogs Cricket, Winchester Poetry Festival and City of Winchester Trust. Still playing fives and real tennis. Views my own. Please respect copyright.

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Heaviness of being. And poetry
Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
To credit marvels. Like the tree-clock of tin cans
The tinkers made. So long for air to brighten,
Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

Seamus Heaney, from Seeing Things