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44 The business approach is to take a calculated risk. Personally, I would encourage the government and business sectors in their biofuel crop enterprises. Meanwhile, the experts in the consultation I mentioned earlier worry about biofuel crops competing with food supply, and they recommend to do biofuels research first, which is the scientific approach. Aside from investing in biofuel crops and food crops, we’re investing in people, people. People come first, especially the poor. I’m thinking small-farmer approach (and mitigating global warming), this: Government encourages and supports 1M small farmers planting 1M ha of degraded lands with sweet sorghum, for income and carbon credits. ICRISAT gives me the impression sweet sorghum is perfect for problem soils – drylands, wetlands, infertile soils – and I’m impressed. Biofuel Islands
45 9. SEEDS FOR MY SWEET. SORGHUM FOR MY HONEY, SATISFACTION GUARANTEED! The Yankee poultry raisers feed their chickens with expensive food: corn. That is because corn prices have jumped following the high demand for corn for ethanol, GW Bush’s biofuel of choice. Are they riding Volkswagens now? Do Yankees always make terrible food-for-non-food choices? With each jump in the corn price, the Yankee farmers are happier and the poultry raisers in the US and in the Philippines are sadder. You see, we Filipinos purchase Yankee jokes and buy their corn. This one is for the birds. Lester Brown, President of the Earth Policy Institute, says, ‘We’re putting the supermarket in competition with the corner filling station for the output of the farm’ (Matthew Wald, 2006 January 16, nytimes.com). ‘We’ here refers to the Yankees, who thrive on competition, which drives their economy. They have capitalism, don’t they? Robert Brown, a professor in agricultural engineering at Iowa State University, says ‘The impression is that we’re taking food out of the mouths of babes’ (nytimes.com). No, Professor, we don’t give babies our corn. Where life is harsh, as is often the case, we give them our grit. Corn aside, Wald says, ‘A global shift to farm-based fuel could reduce the need for oil and slow climate change.’ That’s about the best summary of the whole scenario I have come across. There’s economy of words that reminds me of Henry David Thoreau’s injunction: ‘Simplify, simplify, simplify! ... Simplicity of life and elevation
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Page 14 and 15: 4 There are 3 kinds of written info
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Page 18 and 19: 8 Studying in the University of the
Page 20 and 21: 10 If I have one, sweet sorghum is
Page 22 and 23: 12 We face a true planetary emergen
Page 24 and 25: 14 Charles Clover (telegraph.co.uk)
Page 26 and 27: 16 they did not devise a Senate inq
Page 28 and 29: 18 1,000 films a year. With India o
Page 30 and 31: 20 Knowledge Initiative has three m
Page 32 and 33: 22 needs more milk from a mother. B
Page 34 and 35: 24 Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), whi
Page 36 and 37: 26 Provide a global framework to su
Page 38 and 39: 28 Fire And Ice Robert Frost Some s
Page 40 and 41: 30 From the scientific (chemistry)
Page 42 and 43: 32 Great! The only problem with Bro
Page 44 and 45: 34 To compare further, from AERC In
Page 46 and 47: 36 In the Philippines, intrigued an
Page 48 and 49: 38 7. LEARNING FROM MICROSOFT R4D.
Page 50 and 51: 40 (a) long-range effects of crop c
Page 52 and 53: 42 A few days ago, the Department o
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Page 60 and 61: 50 had a project funded by the Ford
Page 62 and 63: 52 State University for his intense
Page 64 and 65: 54 2004: ICRISAT’s Turnaround: St
Page 66 and 67: 56 (2) It multiplies the farmers. H
Page 68 and 69: 58 12. THE TELUGU PARADIGM. UNDERST
Page 70 and 71: 60 Dr BR Ambedkar Open University E
Page 72 and 73: 62 13. THE TURNING POINT. KNOW THAT
Page 74 and 75: 64 The Adarsha project taught the v
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Page 78 and 79: 68 The area under irrigation is ver
Page 80 and 81: 70 Translating: African governments
Page 82 and 83: 72 15. THE ACADEME AS ANTI-POOR. UN
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Page 86 and 87: 76 His maternal uncle helped him th
Page 88 and 89: 78 16. AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: WILLI
Page 90 and 91: 80 Our responsibility to our childr
Page 92 and 93: 82 A global crop - Sweet sorghum us
Page 94 and 95: 84 citizen entrepreneur who brings
Page 96 and 97: 86 17. ‘SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
Page 98 and 99: 88 Region 05: DD highest, the rest
Page 100 and 101: 90 18. BIOPOWER TO THE PEOPLE! THE
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94 19. THE CHILDREN OF MAIDANEK. OR
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96 The old world is dying, and we a
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98 Still, I’m not comfortable wit
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100 So, what’s that to UP Los Ba
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102 If billions of us Primates will
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104 Not only blogging, I take to wr
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106 That’s a $5 million decrease
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108 from poor to rich soils, advanc
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110 read and put them down in your
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112 (6) Primate, come declare your
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114 22. WHAT’S IN A NAME? IGNRM.
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116 IGNRM … is a powerful integra
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118 Juliet is asking Romeo to chang
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120 The language is technical Engli
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122 because what I don’t know, I
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124 able to sell to yourself, that
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126 He now has his dream digital ca
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