In December 2011 the world will again be watching South Africa, focused on an event that might be remembered far longer than the World Cup — the 17th meeting of the parties to the United Nation's climate convention. The hope of many is that the world may finally reach a just, legally binding and ambitious agreement on cutting carbon emissions — the agreement that Copenhagen failed to deliver. Putting aside whether that's likely, this means that an awful lot of attention is going to be focused on South Africa and raises the question — what example are we, as the hosts, going to be setting? Assuming we don't want to be shuffling about trying to avoid the question, there are many exciting possibilities.
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Sao Paulo, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Brazil's essential role as a provider of food for the world's expanding population is at risk if the government makes good on threats to curtail foreign investment in farmland. The late Nobel laureate and U.S. agronomist Norman Borlaug, who is widely recognized as the father of the Green Revolution, predicted Brazil would become the world's breadbasket in the 21st Century, as the United States was in the 20th. 
There will be a six-month moratorium on new prospecting applications while a full audit of all mineral rights granted since 2004 is conducted, Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu announced on Tuesday. She also promised greater transparency in the way rights were allocated, and an immediate centralisation of the issuing process. 