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• Carving up Africa for Food and Fuel

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  The landgrab heats up, and the neocolonialists stake their claims.

  Fifty million acres: gone! It’s a plot of land the size of half the farmland in all of Europe. One year ago, this tract belonged to its natives. Now, foreigners hold the deed. The scale of this landgrab is truly [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 2:45pm EST
  

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• A new park to save the plains

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  In 1987, two Rutgers’ University researchers ignited a prairie fire by suggesting much of the high plains, including a large swath of Kansas farmland, should be returned to its natural state — what they called a Buffalo Commons.

  The idea, which envisioned parts of 10 prairie states being transformed into a [...]

  Posted: November 15, 2009, 4:31pm EST
  

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• Plowing Detroit Into Farmland

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  Today’s idea: Detroit’s “massive failure” makes possible a radical transformation of the blighted city, an article says, including shrinking it down to its urban core and turning much of the place over to crops. And an ineffective government is actually a plus.

  Could Detroit pull a reverse Joni Mitchell — [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 4:33pm EST
  

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• Chris Nelder: Insights from the ASPO Peak Oil Conference

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  One of the more interesting themes that emerged from this year's ASPO peak oil conference was the problems of maintaining complex systems, and the role that energy plays in them.

  Dr. Jason Bradford, the biology brains behind Farmland LP (more on that here), ticked off a few of the key vulnerabilities [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 9:19am EST
  

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• New York's natural gas battle

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  The Marcellus Shale is a gold mine of natural gas - pitting gas companies and farmers against locals and environmentalists.

  (Fortune Magazine) -- The farmland around the college town of Oneonta, N.Y., is punctuated by barns and cows. But the quiet setting belies a battle that is raging over the Marcellus [...]

  Posted: October 23, 2009, 1:36pm EDT
  

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