Archive for March 12th, 2012

Farming leaders and politicians continue to send out dire warnings about future global food shortages and the need to develop strategies for national food security. Those messages conflict with the facts that Europe continues to waste half of all the food it produces, while countries around the world are diverting arable land from food production to growing crops for renewable energy.

For instance, the practice in the UK to generate electricity from straw will distort market forces in that essential commodity ...

International civilian and military teams aboard the U.S. naval vessel HSV SWIFT have completed their three-week mission of knowledge-sharing and capacity building in Northern Haiti, significantly strengthening the nation in key priority sectors and advancing the Martelly administration’s strategy for decentralization.  Presiding over a ceremony marking the departure of the vessel and crew, Haiti’s Minister of the Interior, Thierry Mayard-Paul, expressed the gratitude of the Haitian government, saying, “Thank you for your training and reconstruction work. This is the cornerstone ...