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Find Your Feet Is microcredit a silver bullet to the end of poverty? Why don't you have a look at this reflection on our work with women in India: http://findyourfeet.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/microcredit-the-power-and-the-pitfalls/

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Find Your Feet "Seeds have slipped out of farmers’ control....Commercial seeds are developed against a background of technological control, economic efficiency and rational management. The commercialisation and adoption of new crop varieties is undermining women’s roles in the realms of seed and crop management, and has serious implications for the maintenance of agro-biodiversity."
http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/14502IIED.pdf

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The End of the Line is a powerful film about one of the world's most disturbing problems - over-fishing. Advances in fishing technology mean whole species of wild fish are under threat and the most important stocks we eat are predicted to be in a state of collapse by 2050. ...
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Find Your Feet Tenure in REDD: Start-point or afterthought?
http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/13554IIED.pdf

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Find Your Feet Today the second round of climate talks in Bonn begins. http://unfccc.int/2860.php.

In the last round an Alliance 43 Small Island Developing States and the Least Developed Countries expressed concerns about attempts to treat adaptation funding as a subset of general development assistance. Now is the chance to define ways to finance adaptation to climate change.

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The Bonn Climate Change Talks The Bonn Climate Change Talks - June 2009 1 - 12 June 2009 Bonn, Germany The thirtieth sessions of the UNFCCC Convention subsidiary bodies - SBSTA and SBI, sixth session of ...
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Find Your Feet Subsistence farming in Africa - the key to food security not only for Africa but for the world? http://findyourfeet.wordpress.com/category/food-crisis/

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Find Your Feet http://www.fairfood.org/index.php?id=2236&L=4 'How Fair is Your Food.' A really thought provoking questionnaire...and the chance to win a weekend in Amsterdam!

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This fantastic run provides an excellent opportunity to run right through the heart of central London along with thousands of other runners. By choosing to run for FYF, you ...
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Time:9:00AM Sunday, July 12th
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Find Your Feet http://www.barefootguide.org/ "Teach me to organize, then...I can join together with my peers, and we will fashion our own solution."

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Find Your Feet Anybody hear Prof John Beddington on the Today programme this am? Any thoughts? http://findyourfeet.wordpress.com/category/climate-change/

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March for Jobs Justice and Climate Change
On 28th March thousands will march through London as part of a global campaign to challenge the G20, ahead of their 2nd April summit on the global financial crisis. Even befo...
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Time:11:00AM Saturday, March 28th
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Find Your Feet Check out this interesting article on Malawi and Aid dependency in Irin news:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=83146

February 26 at 1:43am · Report
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Find Your Feet The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) issued a briefing paper earlier this month titled “Sustaining African Agriculture: Organic Production.”

Check out our blog http://findyourfeet.wordpress.com/category/food-crisis/ for a summary of the report, along with a few thoughts on why it might still be a struggle to ensure that this approach is given comprehensive support.

February 24 at 7:41am · Report
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Find Your Feet Glad you enjoyed your Curry night! Thanks for organising it Bella.

Feel inspired? Please visit our website for more information on how you can turn your dinner party into a fantastic fundraising event for FYF: http://www.fyf.org.uk/getinvolved/curryforchange.htm

In the meantime I have just posted a brief blog post with some initial thoughts (so please add yours!) about the food crisis - prompted by a George Monbiot article "Peasants are detested by both communists and capitalists - but when it comes to productivity a small farm is unbeatable."

http://findyourfeet.wordpress.com/category/food-crisis/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/10/food.globaleconomy

February 11 at 9:23am · Report
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Find Your Feet What is the link between tribal land rights and climate change? Check out this post for some initial thoughts:
http://findyourfeet.wordpress.com/category/climate-change/

February 6 at 3:33am · Report
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Find Your Feet Hello again - another blog post to have a look at on GM crops: http://findyourfeet.wordpress.com/category/gm/. I know this is a contentious issue so if any of you have any contrasting opinions please do post a comment (or even corroborating evidence!) The more dialogue the better!

January 28 at 7:36am · Report
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Find Your Feet discussed UNESCO on Sustainable Agriculture on the Find Your Feet discussion board.