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		<title>Permaculture the Schools</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/11/23/permaculture-the-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albuquerque]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[farming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
  The clock is still ticking, and collapse continues unabated.  Most are oblivious to the true nature of the progression, what it means, why it's happening, and most importantly, what we should do about it. 

  &#160;But the answer is simple, and it's right in front of us.  It's so simple, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Soil Health: A True Investor&#8217;s Safe-Haven</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/14/soil-health-a-true-investors-safe-haven/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2009/01/14/soil-health-a-true-investors-safe-haven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soils]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As our markets implode and wave after wave of bad financial news hits the wire, wild-eyed investors search in vain for a &#34;safe haven&#34; from risky, highly leveraged investments; high risk investing started with complex investment instruments like credit default swaps and mortgage-backed securities, but has now filtered throughout the marketplace, moving to equities, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Identifying Shrimp</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/10/29/identifying-shrimp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aquaculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chapare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shrimp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[

&#160;This is a species of freshwater shrimp (Macrobrachium sp.) from the tropical Chapare region of Cochabamba, Bolivia.&#160; This specimen was given to me over a year a go by young researcher and innovator.&#160;  He believes that this species of prawn has economic potential, as they grow fast and endure a variety of conditions.&#160;  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living on the Edge</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/08/02/living-on-the-edge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/08/02/living-on-the-edge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:22:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lou-Dobbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NAFTA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    The Third World farmer lives constantly on the precipice of disaster.  They are not blessed with many of the things we take for granted: la steady job, stable income, an economy fairly free from inflation, and a social services network that helps to mitigate the effects of natural disaster.

  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Institutionalizing Innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/04/26/institutionalizing-innovation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2007/04/26/institutionalizing-innovation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate-change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[small-business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    Innovation, by its very nature, is difficult to institutionalize.  Innovation requires free and open environments where people can be creative, explore their own interests, and leverage available resources.  Institutions rely on predictable processes so that when someone flips a switch or makes a phone call, they get the expected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Development Without Precedent</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/11/16/development-without-precedent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/11/16/development-without-precedent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international-development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    In many ways economics is a historical science.  Economists rely on historical data for the formulation of predictive models.  Therefore, economics is a science of precedence. 

     
    
    One of the most pertinent critiques against the modern practice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duality</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/10/17/duality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/10/17/duality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appropriate Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Industrial-Revolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl-Marx]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

    It was Descartes who was accused of splitting the world in two, between the material and the spiritual.  In accord with a trend that began in the Renaissance, Descartes had inadvertently and finally delegated the indigenous knowledge of the artisan to the wood shops of history.  
   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Bank: A chink in the armor</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/09/19/world-bank-a-chink-in-the-armor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/09/19/world-bank-a-chink-in-the-armor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Batam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IMF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international-development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    Historically, the World Bank and the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of the world have been united in their &#34;commitment to poverty alleviation and economic development in the Third World&#34;.  In other words, the World Bank has been a great source of business revenue for the NGOs.

     
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrapping Up</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/21/wrapping-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/21/wrapping-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evo-Morales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international-development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    After four months in Bolivia, today is officially my last day and the next couple of days I will spend traveling back to my home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  It has certainly been an interesting time to be here.  I have witnessed the nationalization of gas, elections to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Vice Minister</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/07/the-vice-minister/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/07/the-vice-minister/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 13:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evo-Morales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South-America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
    The Vice Minister is a busy man.  He runs from place to place, with his cell-phone in one hand and a bag of coca in another, busily chewing the leaves as he answers calls and delegates tasks to his team of bureaucrats.  As he fills his mouth with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Agronomist</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/06/the-agronomist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/06/the-agronomist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international-development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neoliberalism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.agroblogger.com/?p=127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
    The agronomist is content to have his job.  He spends an inordinate amount of time shuffling through papers, signing them or making sure they have the proper signatures (all 10 of them), and the rest of his time is spent visiting communities to work on a disintegrated mess of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mayor</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/04/the-mayor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/07/04/the-mayor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evo-Morales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MAS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    If the saying is true that all politics are local, then to get a real understanding of Evo Morales and his MAS party, one must look at the local characters that, from the beginning, have constituted the MAS social movement.

     

    &#160;In many regions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic Awakenings</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/05/01/organic-awakenings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/05/01/organic-awakenings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 19:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cochabamba]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[organic-agriculture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
    The world is waking up to the promise of organic.  Yes, the statistics are quoted quite often: an annual growth rate of 20%, and anticipated market of $30.7 billion by 2007 in the United States alone.  Organic is the fastest growing segment of the world food economy. 

  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unlikely Captain</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/25/the-unlikely-captain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/25/the-unlikely-captain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The transformational effect of power is extremely noticeable in Bolivian politics.  And here I am talking of rural and provincial politics, of the backwater places that nobody hears or knows about but are the heart and soul of Bolivian culture and vitality.&#160;

    

    Several times I have seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Information Intensive Agriculture</title>
		<link>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/22/information-intensive-agriculture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.agroblogger.com/2006/04/22/information-intensive-agriculture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>agroblogger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[agroecology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[information-intensive-agriculture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[    As Rudolf Steiner argued so many decades ago, the 20th century shift towards input intensive agriculture was, and is, troubling in so many ways.  According to Steiner, heavy investments in external inputs, like fertilizers and pesticides, are the symptoms of a sick farm system.  Just as human beings rely [...]]]></description>
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