This university has a special program, called the Nelson Mandela extranet. In this program, Students go back to their communities and teach them about HIV/AIDS , bio-intensive farming, and money management.
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How Students Are Addressing AIDS, Poverty, and Famine in Africa
(via ecoworldly.com)
Submitted by gavinhudson on Thu, 2008-04-10 05:03. | Tags: health | activism | africa | AIDS | famine | HIV | hunger | students | university

Will Biofuel Mean More Go Hungry?
(via newsvote.bbc.co.uk)
"If you start to fuel cars with crops," says Ed Matthew of Friends of the Earth, "you are instantly putting the world's one billion starving people in competition with the world's one billion motorists. It's as simple as that." Strong stuff.
Submitted by Chickpea on Thu, 2007-10-04 10:50. | Tags: food | biofuel | crop | famine | food | hunger | poor

GM Crops only way for India to feed itself, says government
(via www.environmentalgraffiti.com)
Uh oh… Let’s hope there aren’t mass mutations.
Submitted by socialpyramid on Mon, 2007-09-17 20:49. | Tags: food | famine | food | genetically modified crops | GMO | india | population | protest | shortage
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