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Eric Holt-Giménez on "Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice."
Eric Holt-Giménez, executive director of Food First/the Institute for Food & Development Policy reads from his new book, 'Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice', co-written by Raj Patel with Annie Shattuck.
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Smallholder Solutions to Hunger, Poverty and Climate Change
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Written By Eric Holt-Giménez and Annie Shattuck
UN food summit ends in Rome with little progress made in fight against hunger
On Free Speech Radio News
November 18, 2009
The UN Food Summit wraps up in Rome today. Leaders signed a declaration to end world hunger, but the meeting concludes without a firm commitment to fund the efforts. And critics say the meeting did little to address food pricing, agriculture development aid, or the effects that hunger has on women - all issues that are critical to confronting the needs of some one billion people who go hungry every night.
Letter from Sierra Club to Bill Gates
November 9, 2009
Bill Gates
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
PO Box 23350
Seattle, WA 98102
Dear Mr. Gates
Sierra Club, the world's largest grassroots conservation organization, has concerns about your statement at the World Food Prize forum last month. You claimed that environmentalists opposed to genetic engineering of farm crops are against anything that increases yields.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Call for U.S. Leadership at the World Summit on Food Security
November 13, 2009
To: Alonzo L. Fulgham
Acting Administrator and Chief Operating Officer
U.S. Agency for International Development
Ronald Reagan Building Washington, D.C., 20523-1000
Call for U.S. Leadership at the World Summit on Food Security
Biofuels - Myths of the Agrofuels Transition: Parts I & II - a presentation by Eric Holt-Giménez
Part I: http://www.vimeo.com/7447359
Part II: http://www.vimeo.com/7567548
Presenter: Eric Holt-Giménez, Food First
Response: Peter Hess, Cornell University
Cornell University, April 06, 2009
Producers:
Jurden Alexander, Camera
Wies van Leuken, Editor
DEVELOPMENT: For-Profit Seeds Hurting Farmers, Biodiversity
By Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 23 (IPS) - Large biotechnology firms are not only depriving poor farmers of inputs essential for their livelihoods, but are also pushing up food prices, according to a new U.N. report.
"Excessive protection of intellectual property rights in agriculture is an obstacle rather than an incentive for innovation," says Olivier De Schutter, the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food, who authored the report released Tuesday.
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