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People Putting Food First #129
Farm to Hospital—A movement that is long overdue
By Christine White
For decades, hospital food has lacked variety, nutrients, and edibility. In recent years large cafeteria vendors and fast and processed foods have dominated hospital cafeterias, limiting patients and employees to very few, nutrient-enriched meal options. However, six years ago a healthy hospital makeover started, and it’s catching on fast. Read more at http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2466
Ecuador Paves Way for Terminator Technology?
By Karla Peña
People Putting Food First #128
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Action Alert!
Tell Congress not to force genetically engineered crops on other countries as a condition of receiving aid
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2443
New Food First e-book
Agrofuels in the Americas
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2426
Bay Area Events
--Oakland Food Policy Council Recruitment Meeting
May 27, 6:30 P.M. For Details go to http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2435
People Putting Food First #127
ACTION ALERT!
Send a message to President Obama and Congress to re-regulate commodities to avoid a repeat of the food price crisis of 2008.
http://www.change.org/foodfirst/actions/view/stop_food_price_speculation
New Food First book
Beyond the Fence: A Journey to the Roots of the Migration Crisis
Read more and order this book.
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2386
DEVELOPMENT REPORT NO. 19: Food System Meta-analysis for the San Francisco Bay Area
by Heather Wooten, MsC. and Amy Parente of Public Health Law & Policy in collaboration with Food First
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If you could help end modern-day slavery in Florida's fields with an email, would you?
http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/Governor_Crist_stand_against_slavery
People Putting Food First #125
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"Next Generation Biofuels": Bursting The New "Green" Bubble Letter challenges unrealistic promises from an unsustainable industry. http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2341
New Study Shows GE Corn Causes Infertility and Abnormal Gene Expression.
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2336
President-elect Obama presented with urgent “Call to Action” to end food crisis.
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2331
The Latest Land Grab – American Businessman Seals a Deal with Sudanese Warlord for Nearly 1 Million Acres.
People Putting Food First #124
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ACTION ALERT—Tell Obama and Congress
No more corn for fuel
When Fast Food Fights—Whopper vs Big Mac
read more
A Message for Climate Change Negotiators: Small farmers key to combating climate change read more
Territorial restructuring and the grounding of agrarian reform: Indigenous communities, gold mining and the World Bank
People Putting Food First #123
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Buy Fair Trade Gifts for Your Loved ones
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2309
Social and Environmental Groups Urge No Further Agrofuel Expansion, as Brazil hosts the International Biofuels Conference, Nov 17-21, 2008
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2320
FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf Appeals for a New World Agriculture Order
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2318
AAAgrrr! #7: African Agroecological Alternatives to the Green Revolution
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2319
A new colonial era for Africa?
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2317
People Putting Food First #122
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Buy Fair Trade Gifts for your loved ones and support Food First http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2309
URGENT ACTION--Save the Hmong Garden in Fresno, CA USA
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2310
There never was a better time to end hunger--equitably, sustainably, and permanently. http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2308
UN report on organic agriculture in Africa http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2306
Food First News & Views Fall 2008, Vol. 30 #110 Twin Tsunamis? First food, then financial
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2295
People Putting Food First #121
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Green Gold: Why cellulosic ethanol is a threat to farmers and the planet http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2263
Policy Brief No. 16: The World Food Crisis What’s behind it and What we can do about it
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2264
Powerpoint Presentation for Policy Brief No. 16 from a presentation by Eric Holt-Gimenez at the Community Food Security Coalition 2008 Conference in Philadelphia
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2267
Oakland Food Policy Council hires a coordinator
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2268
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The Wall Street Meltdown: The View from Asia
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$700 Billion Buys Lunch for Every Child in the U.S. for 29 Years
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The Financial Crisis and the Food Crisis: Two Sides of the Same Coin
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2252