Anatomy of a 'Gene Spill'
Anatomy of a 'Gene Spill': Do We Really Need Genetically Engineered Food?
By Peter Rosset
Peter Rosset has a Ph.D. in agricultural ecology and is co-director of Food First.
Also available in PDF format.
Reform of the WTO is the Wrong Agenda
Reform of the WTO is the Wrong Agenda
by Walden Bello
Dangerous Liaisons: Progressives, the Right, and the Anti-China Trade Campaign
Anti-China protestors during the recent PNTR campaign. Photo Credit: © Marilyn Humphries/Impact Visuals
DANGEROUS LIAISONS:
Progressives, The Right, and the Anti-China Trade Campaign
By Walden Bello and Anuradha Mittal
Food First Backgrounder
Spring 2000
Vol. 6, No. 1
The Last Plantation
Winter 2000
Black farmers and supporters in Atlanta demanding their land back, January 17, 2000.
Photo credit: Eddie Slaughter.
The Last Plantation
By Anuradha Mittal with Joan Powell
Food First Trade Principles
Food First Trade Principles
By Peter Rosset
Executive Director,
Food First
Manufacturing a Crisis: The Politics of Food Aid in Indonesia
Oakland, CA -- News of food shortages and hunger in Indonesia, reported to be caused by drought, alarmed the world in 1998 and 1999. According to the Minister of Food Affairs and Horticulture, Indonesia was the world's biggest recipient of food aid in 1998. But in recent months news has filtered out that many agricultural communities are prospering in the midst of the crisis. In view of these conflicting reports, South East Asia Food Security and Fair Trade Council organized a fact-finding mission to Indonesia in January 1999.
Monsanto: Food, Health, Hope
It has become no small concern worldwide to family farmers, consumers, and environmentalists that the Monsanto Company, given its history and its present direction in attempting to establish itself as the world's leader in "life sciences," has chosen to "trademark," or in other words "register with a government agency to assure its use exclusively by the owner of the mark "Food-Health-Hope."1
On the Benefits of Small Farms
On the Benefits of Small Farms
By Peter Rosset
Executive Director,
Food First
Banana War in the Philippines
For the past several months, the banana groves on four Philippine
plantations have been uncharacteristically silent. In place of the
normal cacophony of harvesters cutting huge banana bunches, men and
women sit quietly all day in dusty tents beside the plantation roads.
On December 4, 1997, almost 2,000 farm workers stopped cutting bananas
12 Myths About Hunger
For an updated version of this backgrounder go to http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/1480
Why so much hunger?
What can we do about it?
To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught.
Only by freeing ourselves from the grip of widely held myths can we grasp the roots of hunger and see what we can do to end it.
Myth 1
Not Enough Food to Go Around
