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Waiting to Credit Marvels

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

Tag: hunger

Right to food lost in Oxfam campaign

Throughout Oxfam’s new GROW campaign on global hunger the right to food is presumed rather than reiterated.

Published June 6, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged advocacy, hunger, right to food

Glencore flotation punctured by G20 ministers

Ambitious plans by the world’s largest commodities trader to raise capital in the London and Hong Kong markets may be at risk from the threat of international regulatory scrutiny of the sector.

Published April 18, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged commodity trading, hunger, yahoo

No more World Food Summits please

The World Summit on Food Security refused to commit to the eradication of hunger by 2025. How can the urgent agendas for human development and climate change advance without this essential foundation?

Published November 23, 2009
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged food security, hunger
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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