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Incorporating HC 266, session 2008-09
The International Development Committee calls for concerted action to curb food wastage in the UK and for expansion of DFID's bilateral nutrition programmes with a particular focus on pregnancy and early years, as part of wider efforts to improve global food security. There is scope for the Government to launch a national consumer campaign to reduce domestic food waste, also setting national targets to curb food waste within the UK food production and retail sectors. Agriculturally-produced biofuels are having a major detrimental impact on global food security by driving higher and more volatile food prices. EU targets requiring 10 per cent of transport energy to be drawn from renewable sour...
After the Civil War, Ronan Bailey rides north in search of a new beginning. Scarred, he hopes to find peace on the open range. But the frontier has other plans: a violent encounter on the Kansas border leaves him wounded. Hired by a rancher, Ronan is drawn into a deadly conflict over land and loyalty. As tensions rise and old enemies resurface, Ronan must decide whether to keep running from the past—or stand and fight. Along the way, a chance at love offers him a glimpse of the life he’s always wanted. But as danger closes in, that dream may slip through his fingers unless he can stop the violence threatening to consume everything he holds dear. A gritty western rich with frontier justice, THE STRANGER is the eleventh book in the Bailey Clan Westerns series by Terence Newnes.
The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the natural world that sustains us. Its effects will be profound and irreversible, but globalization itself is not inevitable. In The Case Against the Global Economy, 24 leading economic, agricultural, cultural and environmental authorities, drawn from across the world, argue that free trade and economic globalization are producing exactly the opposite results to those promised. From a detailed analysis of the new global economy, its structures and its full social and ecological implications, they s...
Sustainable development in a changing Climate : Fifth report of session 2008-09, Vol. 2: Oral and written Evidence
A point-by-point analysis of the premises and implications of economic globalization.
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