Is Access to Food a Human Right? Interview with Raj Patel, Sr. Fellow at Food First and Chris Jochnick of Oxfam America
India's economy is on the rise, but with an estimated 421 million people living in poverty, its levels of malnutrition are still staggeringly high. The governing Indian National Congress Party is pushing to enshrine the right to food in the country’s constitution and expand the existing entitlement so that every Indian family would qualify for a monthly 77-pound bag of grain, sugar and kerosene.
We want to hear from you: Should government guarantee the basics of human survival? What would you make a basic human right?
Environmental human rights promoted by PhD biologist and former Food First staffer, Sandra Steingraber
Sandra is a cancer survivor, author of Living Downstream, principal subject of the documentary Living Downstream, and environmental activist. Read her blog here: http://www.livingdownstream.com/steingraber_essays.php
View the trailer here: http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/3057
Watch Me Grow - Three year olds gardening
Food First Fellow Raj Patel's keynote address to the National Summit on a People-Centered Economy, Ottawa, May 20, 2010
Food First Fellow Raj Patel speaking on creating democracy in the food system
Bollywood documentary: Poison on the Platter
This documentary film on the dangers of genetically modified food by Ajay Kanchan was made for an Indian audience.
Organic farming can feed the world
Catherine Badgley, University of Michigan Assistant professor Ecology and Evolutionary Biology speaks about the potential of organics.
The World According to Monsanto by Marie-Monique Robin
This is the first of a 10-segment documentary posted to YouTube.