London Summit Leaders’ Statement

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of the London Summit Leaders’ Statement

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Economics and Growth

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Euro area needs more integrated financial market
supervision, says OECD’s Gurría

14/01/2009 - OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría has called for a more centralised and integrated supervision of Euro area banks and financial markets to help prevent a recurrence of the financial turmoil which triggered the current recession.

Presenting the OECD Economic Survey of the Euro Area, Mr Gurría said policy-makers should create either a single EU-wide supervisor or a central agency to work in conjunction with national supervisors.

Effective coordination, he added, was key to re-establishing confidence and hastening a return to economic growth.

Mr Gurría said measures taken by European governments have helped prevent a systemic collapse in financial markets during the current crisis - even though the system is still under strain and doubts remain as to whether sufficient money has been set aside to recapitalise banks and to acquire troubled assets.

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Agriculture & Rural Development

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Welcome to the agriculture and rural development website

Interesting website to get connected with

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Oil Tabloid

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Let’s try this. Will this be a real genuine information?

It informs about oil topics all over the world.

Apart from the fact that we deem oil as a quite old energy resource

we hope something’s going on for alternative energy supplies.

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Hungry People 963 million

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Number of hungry people rises to 963 million

09-12-2008

High food prices to blame – economic crisis could compound woes

9 December 2008, Rome - Another 40 million people have been pushed into hunger this year primarily due to higher food prices, according to preliminary estimates published by FAO today. This brings the overall number of undernourished people in the world to 963 million, compared to 923 million in 2007 and the ongoing financial and economic crisis could tip even more people into hunger and poverty, FAO warned.Click here to read from FAO website.

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FOOD INSECURITY IN THE WORLD


Pesticides and Health

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Pesticides are chemical poisons, designed to kill plants and animals such as insects (insecticides), weeds (herbicides), rodents (rodenticides), and mold or fungus (fungicides). They include active ingredients (those intended to kill the target) and inert ingredients, which are often not “inert” at all.

Pesticides can’t be innocuous for human health.

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Food Safety

Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 February 2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EECText with EEA relevance.

Human Health Issues

EU Policy

Rural and urban residents alike are increasingly becoming attuned to the way food tastes, despite — or perhaps because of — the abundance of highly processed matter that typically adorns our plate and lines our stomachs meal after meal.

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Contact Alan Gill, M.D.,
Program Director
Tacoma Family Medicine
521 Martin Luther King Jr. Way Street
Tacoma, WA 98405
Phone (253) 403-2922
Website: http//www.tacomafamilymedicine.org
Email: Barbara.york@multicare.org (Fellowship Coordinator)

Vegetarianism

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Sociology of consumption: trends in food consumption

Arouna P. Ouedraogo
INRA-CORELA, Paris

INTRODUCTION
• Presentation will focus on study on vegetarianism in France, which is part of a Food Acceptability research program undertaken at INRACORELA, Paris.

• The driving hypothesis was that the best means to study the social conditions of trust with respect to food roducts was to spot the circumstances where they are subjected to more or less distrust.

• Literature review on food acceptability, followed with series of in-depth interviews with panels of consumers across France, showed that several signals of food unease were crystallizing over beef meat.
These reports were further confirmed by statistic surveys.
PURPOSE
• Understanding the conditions in which evolves the hostility to meat, including the sociological properties of the groups who carry that hostility helps to know how it spreads and with which social categories it grows.
RESULTS
Vegetarianism, an effect of changing culture change in Labour Conditions, Change in Social Definitions of Edibility Transformations in the Economic Structure
• Decrease of Manual Labour i.e Less Need of Energetic Foods: meat, wine especially
• Average Increase in Level of Education nd Broader Diffusion of Dietetic Knowledge

Consequences regarding vegetarianism:
• More and more socially varied, with lower middle-classes as new comers
• Different determinations in adopting the diet, i.e Different uses of vegetarianism
• Broad acceptation of medicalization of health, i.e Room for alternative medicalization of self defined healthy practices Urbanization of Culture, Higher Sensitiveness to Sustainable Living and Quality of Life
Transformations in the Symbolic Economy of Life
• Rural Economy Flowing Back, Increasing Interests in Rural, Local Life and Products
• Praise for Nature and the Natural: Aesthetics in Landscape, Care for the Environment, the Animals, Exaltation of Freshness in Food Consequences regarding vegetarianism:
• Proto-ecologism as vehicle of dissatisfactions towards standard food supply
• Natural-food, health-food, local-food, rganic food movements in rise, all Ferments of vegetarian ideology, including consumption of meat, or meat products.

Vitalis Crop Protocol Rev 2.0

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Out the new release of Vitalis Crop protocol

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Vitalis Crop Protocol Rev 2.0 21 October 2008

Producers Protocol Rev 2.0 in English

Traders Protocol Rev 2.0 in English

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Nueva versión del protocolo de Vitalis Crop 2.0 21 Octubre 2008

Protocolo para Productores Rev 20. en Español

Protocolo para Comerciantes Rev 2.0 en Español

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Nuova versione del protocollo Vitalis Crop 2.0 del 21 Ottobre 2008

Protocollo Produttori Rev 2.0  in Italiano

Protocollo Commercianti Rev 2.0 in Italiano

Gea.Net Gestionale Open Source

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globeGea.Net 

Software per la gestione di piccole e medie imprese 

Ci siamo imbattuti in un software realmente straordinario. L’applicativo è un gestionale Open Source concesso in licenza BSD  ricchissimo di funzioni e soluzioni all’avanguardia che si propone per la piccola e media impresa ma che non ha niente da invidiare alle applicazioni in uso nelle grandi aziende. E’ infatti adatto anche per organizzazioni di grandi dimensioni oltre che per Professionisti, Enti e Associazioni.

Di fatto copre, se non tutti, la maggior parte dei comparti economici, dalla produzione ai servizi, dal commercio alla lavorazione conto terzi, dalla gestione di rivendite - con possibilità di acquistare moduli aggiuntivi come la connessione al regitratore di cassa - all’amministrazione dei cantieri e molto più. Importantissime funzioni, come per esempio la gestione dei dipendenti e la gestione lotti e tracciabilità, lo rendono particolarmente interessante anche per gli utenti più esigenti e sicuramente idoneo per le cooperative e le aziende agricole in generale.

Gea.Net è multiaziendale e multiutente e offre una gamma talmente vasta di soluzioni da restare letteralmente stupiti.

E’ gratuitamente scaricabile dal sito http://www.fborghi.it/ dove è possibile trovare una serie di applicazioni e di servizi aggiuntivi che soddisfano qualunque requisito.

Quello che ci sembra importante sottolineare è che abbraccia in pieno la filosofia Open Source,  proponendosi come gestionale a diffusione gratuita, con possibilità di usufruire dei sorgenti e di servizi qualificati a corredo, per un controllo e una gestione dei costi informatici sicuramente più corretta e intelligente.

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