Saturday 22 November 2008

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Store is the Core

STORE IS THE CORE is an advisory and grant programme designed to help sustain existing village shops and to encourage the development of community owned shops in the South West of England

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The RSA is an alliance of key suppliers, authorities
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Rich countries launch great land grab to safeguard food supply

Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies.

The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jacques Diouf, has warned that the controversial rise in land deals could create a form of "neo-colonialism", with poor states producing food for the rich at the expense of their own hungry people

Rich countries launch great land grab to safeguard food supply Environment The Guardian