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Onion Sale Crashes Groupon

  • Spence Cooper
  • September 11, 2013

Last month, the Indian Rupee plunged by the most in over 20 years which has resulted in a 30% loss of global purchasing power for families in India. (Source) As a result of the sharp increase in inflation and supply shortages, food prices across India have skyrocket forcing the average price of a ki... Read More »

Gates Foundation Awards $10 Million Grant for GM Crops in Africa

  • Spence Cooper
  • December 11, 2012

Last July, Common Dreams reported that the Gates Foundation awarded a $10 million grant to develop genetically modified (GM) crops for use in sub-Saharan Africa. The grant is for the John Innes Centre, a research center involved in the biological and chemical sciences that receives strategic fundin... Read More »

McDonald’s to Open Vegetarian-Only Restaurant

  • Spence Cooper
  • September 7, 2012

Next year McDonald's plans to open its first vegetarian-only restaurant at the foothills of the Vaishno Devi shrine at Katra in Jammu & Kashmir, and another pure vegetarian outlet near the Golden Temple in Amritsar in northern India. The Vaishno Devi shrine is one of the holy Hindu temples dedicate... Read More »

Lawlessness and Corruption Ignites Coffee Wars in Kenya

  • Spence Cooper
  • February 10, 2012

In a scene reminiscent of the dystopian action film Mad Max, Kenya's coffee growers -- about 150,000 small farmers -- and coffee storage depot workers have been forced to defend themselves against thefts and violence from marauding coffee raiding gangs hired by organized crime cartels with links to ... Read More »

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