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US food aid programme criticised as ‘corporate welfare’ for grain giants, Guardian

Three highly profitable and politically powerful agribusinesses — ADM, Cargill, and Bunge — dominate the $1bn US food aid policy, a Guardian analysis reveals, ‘with lobby groups ensuring agricultural surpluses are exported despite cost to developing countries’:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jul/18/us-multinationals-control-food-aid

By NR, on July 19th, 2012

‘Four mistakes journalists make when reporting on polls’, ijnet.org

**Expert advice for journalists everywhere, including India: don’t trust ‘voodoo polls’, don’t ignore the margin of error, don’t compare apples with oranges, and don’t disregard sample size:

http://ijnet.org/blog/four-mistakes-journalists-make-when-reporting-polls

‘How not to report opinion polls’, Anthony Wells, associate director of YouGov http://today.yougov.com/‘s social and political polling:

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/5717?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+PollingReport+%28UK+Polling+Report%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

By NR, on July 19th, 2012