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Stop selling off African land - invest in farmers instead

2014-01-23 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The international year of family farming is now underway, and never before have family farmers in Africa been more under threat. Large land deals between African governments and usually foreign (and sometimes domestic) investors have seen swathes of the countryside leased or concessioned, often for as much as 50 to 99 years. From Senegal in West Africa to Ethiopia in the Horn, and down to Mozambique in the South, land considered idle and available has changed hands, with profound implications...

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Don't Buy a Microsoft Surface, Buy This Instead

2013-10-30 01:34:00| PC Magazine Notebooks Product Guide

Intel's new Bay Trail chips just changed the game for tablets. The Asus T100 lets you get real work done, for under $400.

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Beetles to blame for Colorado's fires? Blame climate change instead

2013-06-24 23:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

NBC: Tiny, winged bark beetles have been the ecological bad guys of the West for more than a decade, and rightfully so. They've killed off millions of acres' worth of trees in Colorado. Now all those dead trees are feeding the flames across tens of thousands of acres in the southern part of the state. The West Fork Complex fire raging through southwest Colorado has already burned through more than 75,000 acres, including wide stretches of tinder-dry trees hit by beetle damage. With 600 people evacuated...

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Man orders tie gets SS numbers instead

2013-06-21 21:10:21| Apparel - Topix.net

With a little more than two weeks to go before their wedding, Emily Dreyfuss' fiance ordered a tie and pocket square from Gap chain Banana Republic's website to go with his Navy blue suit.

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