We already grow enough food for 10 billion people… and still can’t end hunger
May 2, 2012, Huffington Post Blog by Eric Holt-Giménez
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/world-hunger_b_1463429.h...
A new a study* from McGill University and the University of Minnesota published in the journal Nature compared organic and conventional yields from 66 studies and over 300 trials. Researchers found that on average, conventional systems out-yielded organic farms by 25%—mostly for grains, and depending on conditions.
Tools for Food Policy Planning and Implementation
February 29, 2012
For Immediate Release
Contact: Esperanza Pallana at 510-654-4400 ext 233
THIRD ANNUAL FOOD SOVEREIGNTY PRIZE CEREMONY AND FAIR
ORGANIZATIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD HOLD INTERACTIVE BOOTHS ON FOOD SOVEREIGNTY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Eric Holt-Gimenez (Food First)
510-654-4400 X227/ info [at] foodfirst [dot] org
Y. Armando Nieto (California Food and Justice Coalition)
510-547-1457 /info [at] cafoodjustice [dot] org
Groups fighting root causes of hunger honored with 2011 Food Sovereignty Prize
COMMUNITY FOOD SECURITY COALITION, US FOOD SOVEREIGNTY ALLIANCE AND WHYHUNGER ANNOUNCE 2011 FOOD SOVEREIGNTY PRIZE WINNERS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 19, 2011
Contact: Debbie Grunbaum
WhyHunger Debbie [at] whyhunger [dot] org
212-629-0853
Contact: Emily Becker
Community Food Security Coalition Emily [at] foodsecurity [dot] org
503-954-2970
Groups fighting root causes of hunger honored
the second phase of the Black farmer lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture, known as the Pigford II Settlement goes to the notice phase
Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund
For Immediate Release: July 13, 2011
Contact: Heather Gray
404 765 0991 - heathergray [at] federation [dot] coop
www.federation.coop for more information on the Pigford II settlement
Update on the Black Farmer Lawsuit Against the USDA
Case is now in the "Notice" Phase
UN EXPERT URGES MEXICAN ’STATE OF EMERGENCY’ TO BATTLE FOOD POVERTY AND OBESITY
SOURCE: United Nations News Centre, USA
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=38782&Cr=mexicoCr1=
DATE: 21.06.2011
“We will not wait for governments”
African branch of La Via Campesina pledges to build food sovereignty from below
Food crises: five priorities for the G20
20 June 2011
Editorial by Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on
the Right to Food*
BRUSSELS, 20 June 2011 - On the eve of the G20 Agriculture Summit on
June 22-23 in Paris, there is no doubt as to the urgency of adopting
an ambitious plan of action. France has a decisive role to play with
the other major economies of the planet: together, they must advance
the priorities aimed at moving the food system out of its current
impasse.
For it is indeed an impasse that we are facing. Starting from the
G20-Agriculture: Hundreds of organizations say STOP farm land grabbing!
Paris/Heidelberg, June 20, 2011 - Hundreds of civil society organisations, including farmers' movements, women's groups and non-governmental organisations, will launch a global appeal against farmland grabbing during the G20 meeting on Agriculture in Paris on June 22 and 23.
Over 500 organizations from around the world (1) have joined the "Dakar Appeal Against Land Grabbing" (2) that was originally drawn up at the World Social Forum in Dakar last February and launched by, among others, la Via Campesina and FIAN International.
G20 Agriculture: No to “food grabbing” by the richest nations of the world!
Press Release - La Via Campesina
(Jakarta, June 16, 2011) Food and agriculture will be on the menu of the G20 agriculture ministers meeting to be held in Paris on June 22 and 23, in preparation for the G20 conference in Cannes, France, in November. The international farmers’ movement La Via Campesina condemns the ongoing attempts by the governments of the world's richest nations to grab and control food policies that affect not only farmers but every single human being.
