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		<title>World Bank Threatens Water in Colombia</title>
		<link>http://swiftfoundation.org/2013/03/27/world-bank-threatens-water-in-colombia/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this Spanish-language video, Hector Herrera explains why a group of organizations (Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA), Center for International Environmental Law and Mining Watch Canada) filed a complaint with the World Bank Group&#8217;s IFC to reconsider investments in Greytsar Company (now Eco Oro Minerals) to exploit gold in the Santurbán Paramos without environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aviation BioFuel Threatens Food Security</title>
		<link>http://swiftfoundation.org/2013/03/25/aviation-biofuel-threatens-food-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the press release from the Oakland Institute on the connection between aviation biofuel and food security. &#8220;A new report from the Oakland Institute, Eco-Skies: The Global Rush for Aviation Biofuel, cautions against the ambitious goals of the aviation industry to reduce emissions by 2050. The report finds that the pursuit of this goal will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GRAIN on G8 &amp; Land Grabs</title>
		<link>http://swiftfoundation.org/2013/03/12/grain-on-g8-land-grabs/</link>
		<comments>http://swiftfoundation.org/2013/03/12/grain-on-g8-land-grabs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swift Foundation</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[corporate investment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[food policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent press release, GRAIN reports: &#8220;The G8 countries are implementing a New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in six African countries that will facilitate the transfer of control over African agriculture from peasants to foreign agribusiness. &#8220;Cooperation Frameworks agreed with Burkina Faso, Côte d&#8217;Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique and Tanzania commit each government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swift Joins Institutional Investors for Disclosure of Lobbying</title>
		<link>http://swiftfoundation.org/2013/02/11/swift-joins-institutional-investors-for-disclosure-of-lobbying/</link>
		<comments>http://swiftfoundation.org/2013/02/11/swift-joins-institutional-investors-for-disclosure-of-lobbying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swift Foundation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shareholder resolutions were filed with more than 50 companies by more than 65 institutional and individual investors for 2013. Swift Foundation counts as one of eighteen foundations on record with Walden Asset Management that is pressing companies to disclose their lobbing publicly. Read the full press release here.]]></description>
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		<title>Proposed Seed Laws Undermine Farmers&#8217; Rights</title>
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		<comments>http://swiftfoundation.org/2012/12/17/proposed-seed-laws-undermine-farmers-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swift Foundation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has released its new report titled, Harmonisation of Africa’s seed laws: a recipe for disaster- Players, motives and dynamics. The report shows how African governments are being co-opted into harmonising seed laws relating to border control measures, phytosanitary control, variety release systems, certification standards and intellectual property rights, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Industrial Agricultural Feed the World?</title>
		<link>http://swiftfoundation.org/2012/12/11/will-industrial-agricultural-feed-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 03:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swift Foundation</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[African Biodiversity Network]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[seed biodiversity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this new video from the Small Planet Institute&#8216;s Real Food Media Project. Do we really need industrial agriculture to feed the world? In just over a month since the video was launched, the 6 1/2-minute mythbusting movie has been watched more than 68,000 times and translated into more than 10 languages (including Chinese,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunity: Global Environments Summer Academy 2013</title>
		<link>http://swiftfoundation.org/2012/11/06/opportunity-global-environments-summer-academy-2013/</link>
		<comments>http://swiftfoundation.org/2012/11/06/opportunity-global-environments-summer-academy-2013/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swift Foundation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Environments Summer Academy 2013: Socio-ecological Interactions in a Dynamic World The  Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and the  Global Diversity Foundation announce GESA 2013: the third Global Environments Summer Academy on Socio-ecological Interactions in a Dynamic World, to be held in collaboration with the Centre for Development and Environment of the University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Farmers Undermine Food Security in Zambia</title>
		<link>http://swiftfoundation.org/2012/11/05/foreign-farmers-undermine-food-security-in-zambia/</link>
		<comments>http://swiftfoundation.org/2012/11/05/foreign-farmers-undermine-food-security-in-zambia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swift Foundation</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food sovereignty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GRAIN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Land deal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land grab]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reposted from Inter Press Service By Nebert Mulenga Increased agricultural development in Zambia will actually compromise the country’s food security as peasant farmers continue to be driven off their customary land to pave the way for large-scale local and foreign agribusiness, according to the University of Zambia’s dean of the school of agriculture, Dr. Mickey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Capital Energy Disregards Community Consultation in Belize</title>
		<link>http://swiftfoundation.org/2012/10/30/oil-companys-lack-of-community-consultation-in-belize/</link>
		<comments>http://swiftfoundation.org/2012/10/30/oil-companys-lack-of-community-consultation-in-belize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swift Foundation</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FPIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free prior informed consent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sole public consultation to discuss the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for US Capital Energy&#8217;s proposal to drill in the Sarstoon-­Temash National Park did not allow for a full and proper venting of community concerns, nor did it facilitate responses to critical questions impacting the indigenous communities. The meeting began at 5pm on Thursday October [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmers Possess Valuable Indigenous Climate Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://swiftfoundation.org/2012/10/30/farmers-possess-valuable-indigenous-climate-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://swiftfoundation.org/2012/10/30/farmers-possess-valuable-indigenous-climate-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 16:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Swift Foundation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa: Indigenous Knowledge Of Climatic Conditions For Sustainable Crop Production Under Resource-Poor Farming Conditions Using Participatory Techniques L. O. Nethononda, J.J. O Odhiambo, and D. G. Paterson, 2012 Rambuda irrigation scheme is situated in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province in South Africa. It was established in 1952 and farmers do not have access to [...]]]></description>
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