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On International Women’s Day, insights into the women who feed the world:

women in Agriculture | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

The citrus workers of Florida have been living and working in appalling conditions, as you may know. This week, events are being held in Boston and Tampa to support their struggle.

Read all about the issues, the events and how you can show your support here.

Cool  map depicting  data on where GM technology has been adopted….the Americas and Asia, yes but Europe, not so much. The comments that follow make for interesting reading as well.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/02/daily_chart_genetically_modified_crops&fsrc=nwl

We have noted earlier how the discussion on climate change does not focus enough on the impact on agriculture. Here is an interesting piece making the connection between climate change, its impact on food production (poor harvests leading to shortages) and the looming possibility of armed conflict breaking out over food.

Food Fight: Climate Change and the Coming International Food Crisis.

Thought+Food is proud to join the World Food Programme’s Blogger’s Against Hunger platform. There will be more on the issue of hunger and ways to help in future posts. In the meantime, please click on the freerice banner to your right to play a fun game and help the fight against hunger!

Watching a species become extinct before our very eyes, largely due to our own actions, is a tragedy beyond words. The last bluefin tuna may be caught/die in 2012. Join the call to ban bluefin tuna fishing. More at www.howtosavethebluefin.com

Interesting debate on rising food prices at the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/02/15/is-the-world-producing-enough-food

http://www.economist.com/node/18060808.

I have been planning to post on the issue of subsidies in agriculture in the context of the Farm Bill 2012 but that is still in the works courtesy endless snow days (which   worktime to almost zero!). That post will come through, but in the meantime, here is a wonderful exposition on cotton subsidies by John Green (of the vlogbrothers).

Copepods and Aphids, thats what! Want to know what else is allowed to lurk in your food. Read below, warning, some of it may gross you out!!

How many bugs are allowed in your pasta? Reading the FDA’s Food Defect Action Levels.