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The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First shapes how people think by analyzing the root causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and developing solutions in partnership with movements working for social change.
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Eric Holt-Giménez on "Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice."

Posted May 14th, 2009 by admin

FOOD REBELLIONS

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.

To view the 14 minute reading/talk, go to:
http://vimeo.com/4601504?pg=transcoded_embed&sec=4601504

To read more about Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice
and to order the book:
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2387

Former Food First Intern Scours the Urban Food-scape to Help Build Community

Posted July 2nd, 2009 by admin

By Rick Jonasse

Food and agriculture have been intertwined with community and culture for thousands of years, but the modern food economy with its industrial production and large impersonal grocery chains, not only distances people from the source of their food, but also from one another.

Asiya Wadud was recently featured in a recent New York Times article for on her efforts to forage in the urban landscape for fruit that is not being eaten. She is connecting people in a 200 member fruit exchange network called Forage Oakland.

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Statement by Guatemalan Organizations and Communities to National and International Public Opinion

Posted June 19th, 2009 by admin

We Declare:

1. The expansion of plantations for agrofuels is advancing quickly in Guatemala. Over the last five years national and international agribusinesses have been increasing their control over land to plant sugarcane and African palm for this purpose. This is leading to a decrease in the land planted for food, putting the population’s food security at risk. It is also contributing to the weakening of many rural communities, undermining the basic elements of indigenous communities’ cohesion and identity.

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UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food recommends principles and measures to discipline "land grabbing"

Posted June 15th, 2009 by admin

GENEVA / BRUSSELS -- The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Mr. Olivier De Schutter, on Thursday (June 11, 2009) proposed a minimum set of principles and measures based on human rights in the elaboration of large-scale transnational land acquisitions and leases, more commonly referred to as "land grabbing". His call comes at a time when Governments are preparing to negotiate on responsible investment in agriculture at the forthcoming G8 Summit.

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Mount Kenya Declaration on the Global Crisis and Africa’s Responsibility

Posted June 9th, 2009 by admin

Statement from the African Biodiversity Network

From 23 - 31 May 2009, the African Biodiversity Network (ABN) have gathered together near Mount Kenya, 25 organisations from 10 countries that work with farmers and local communities on the issues of biodiversity, food sovereignty, livelihoods, climate change, traditional knowledge, culture and community rights in Africa.

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Peaceful protesters in Peru blockading oil development killed by government police

Posted June 8th, 2009 by admin

PLEASE TAKE ACTION to support our Indigenous brothers and sisters in Peru who are literally fighting for their lives at this very moment. In protest of the Peruvian government’s attempts to change laws and the constitution to open up Peru’s Amazon to exploitation by the oil, gas, mining and agribusiness industries to meet its obligations under the Peru-US Free Trade Agreement, Indigenous Amazonians have been protesting non-violently for over 60 days.

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Response to an article by Dennis Avery titled "Cubans Starve on a Diet of Lies"

Posted May 24th, 2009 by admin

Dear Mr. Dennis Avery,

I have read your article “Cubans Starve on a Diet of Lies,” written last March 23, regarding Cuban agriculture. At first, I hesitated to respond to such fundamentally flawed claims. However, because the misinformation propagated in your piece is unfair to Cuba and Cubans, I am doing so now.

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Transgenic Food Production in Cuba; The Need for a Participatory and Serious Debate

Posted May 24th, 2009 by admin

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By Fernando Funes Aguilar, PhD., Agro-ecologist

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July Delegation to Venezuela: Human Rights, Food Sovereignty & Social Change

Posted May 24th, 2009 by admin

07/27/2009 - 08:00
08/05/2009 - 08:00
Etc/GMT-7
Location: 
Caracas, Venezuela, plus states of Cojedes, Portuguesa, and Aragua

The Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of NY invites you to join us in July for a 10-day trip to Venezuela examining advances in food sovereignty and other initiatives for social change. Start off in the capital city of Caracas, then travel to three additional states, including visits to newly formed cooperative farms and rural development projects in the countryside; community and national media outlets; government sponsored social programs, including Mercal markets and Barrio Adentro medical clinics, and much more. Meet with farmers, community leaders, and government officials.

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Tell Congress not to force genetically engineered crops on other countries as a condition of receiving aid

Posted May 19th, 2009 by admin

Please contact your senator today and forward this by e-mail to friends.
Co-sponsors of this bill include Sen. Mark Begich (D, AK), Sen. Robert Casey (D, PA), Sen. Susan Collins (R, ME), Sen. Richard Durbin (D, ME), Sen. Thomas Harkin (D, IA), and Sen. John Kerry (D, MA). If you live in one of the districts served by these senators, it is important that they hear from you. Please cut and paste this information into a personal letter to your senator.

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