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Policy Brief No. 16: The World Food Crisis What’s behind it and What we can do about it
by Eric Holt-Giménez, Ph.D.
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“A Silent Tsunami” The World Food Program’s description of the global food crisis raises the specter of a natural disaster surging over an unaware populace that is helpless in the face of massive destruction. With billions of people at risk of hunger, the current food crisis is certainly massive and destructive.
Oakland Food Policy Council hires a coordinator
Food First, the City of Oakland, the HOPE Collaborative, and several other community-based organizations (CBOs) are working together to establish the Oakland Food Policy Council (OFPC).
Powerpoint Presentation for Policy Brief No. 16 from a presentation by Eric Holt-Gimenez at the Community Food Security Coalition 2008 Conference in Philadelphia
Green Gold: Why cellulosic ethanol is a threat to farmers and the planet
By Annie Shattuck
Cellulosic ethanol has everyone from John McCain to the Natural Resources Defense Council excited with the promise of greening the planet and the economy in one stroke. … The irony of cellulosics however, is the unprecedented threat they pose to small farmers, the environment and our global carbon balance: the very things they pretend to protect.
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The U.S. Food System Was Also Deregulated in the 1990s and the Stakes are Much Higher than the Current Economic Meltdown
An Editorial Comment by
Larry Matlack, President, American Agriculture Movement
September 24, 2008
La Via Campesina Leads Struggle for Food Sovereignty at the European Social Forum
The big international peasant network, Via Campesina, with presence in all the continents, has had a strong participation at the European Social Forum in Malmö, Sweden, as it has so far done in all the international meetings where it has coordinated with other social networks as part of their struggle for justice and food sovereignty.
Your donations needed to help fund African American trip to build ties with Africa's farm organizations
Food First invites you to help provide financial support to allow African Americans to participate in this fact-finding trip to Africa.
“Sankofa”
An African—African-American partnership to solve the global food crisis
In conjunction with its African Agroecological Alternatives project, Food First is launching a new "African American - Africa "Sankofa" Initiative to join our African partners in the struggle against the worsening global food crisis.
Ending the Food Crisis--World Food Day 2008
As U.S. food pantries face long lines and empty shelves while food riots rock the globe, it is clear that we are in the midst of a food crisis at home and abroad. The crisis is long in the making, yet even as it hits both headlines and wallets, it has been largely ignored by the current administration and the presidential candidates. In response, food, farm, labor, and justice organizations from across the US are joining together to call on our leaders to address the roots of the problem.
The Doha Collapse: Time to get agriculture out of the WTO
Policy Brief No. 15
by Rick Jonasse
August 2008
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