Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 2 - Governing the Global Land Grab: Competing political tendencies
by Saturnino M. Borras, Jr., Jennifer Franco and Chunyu Wang
This brief provides crucial context for understanding land grabbing and discusses three political tendencies in global land governance. Understanding these tendencies is critical if transnational movements are to carry out effective advocacy campaigns against land grabbing. This is the second brief in the Land & Sovereignty in the Americas series, co-published by Food First and the Transnational Institute.
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Land & Sovereignty Brief No. 1 - "Sons and Daughters of the Earth": Indigenous communities and land grabs in Guatemala
by Alberto Alonso-Fradejas
In the face of violent dispossession and incorporation into an exploitative labor regime, indigenous peasant families in northern Guatemala are struggling to access land and defend their resources as the basis of their collective identity as Q'eqchi' peoples or R'al Ch'och ("sons and daughters of the earth"). This brief is the first in the Land & Sovereignty in the Americas series, co-published by Food First and the Transnational Institute.
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| Land-Sov_Series_Briefs_No1_Alonso-Fradejas_FoodFirst.pdf | 1.43 MB |
Policy Brief No. 19 Cutting Through the Red Tape: A Resource Guide for Local Food Policy Practitioners & Organizers
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By Beth Sanders, MPH, Intern, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy and Annie Shattuck, Research Fellow, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
Policy Brief No 18: Why the Global Food Security Act Will Fail to Curb Hunger
by Annie Shattuck and Eric Holt-Giménez
A bill before the Senate would create a federal mandate for genetically modified crop research as part of U.S. foreign aid programs, against the recommendations of all major international assessments of agricultural development. A new report on the proposed legislation from Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy calls for urgent action to stop the bill.
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The Global Food Security Act (SB 384) passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last month. The legislation, also known as the Lugar-Casey Act, aims to reform aid programs to include a stronger focus on long-term agricultural development, and restructure aid agencies to better respond to crises. While this renewed attention is welcome, funding under the proposed law – some $7.7 billion worth of it - would be directed largely to genetically modified crop research.
Policy Brief No. 16: The World Food Crisis - What’s behind it and What we can do about it
by Eric Holt-Giménez, Ph.D.
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“A Silent Tsunami” The World Food Program’s description of the global food crisis raises the specter of a natural disaster surging over an unaware populace that is helpless in the face of massive destruction. With billions of people at risk of hunger, the current food crisis is certainly massive and destructive.
The Doha Collapse: Time to get agriculture out of the WTO
Policy Brief No. 15
by Rick Jonasse
August 2008
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The Agrofuels Trojan Horse: Biotechnology and the Corporate Domination of Agriculture
Policy Brief No. 14
by Annie Shattuck
April 2008
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Food First Policy Brief No. 13
By Eric Holt-Giménez and Isabella Kenfield
March 2008
When Renewable Isn’t Sustainable: Agrofuels and the Inconvenient Truth behind the 2007 U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act
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Food First Policy Brief No.12
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Food First Policy Brief No. 12
Ten Reasons Why the Rockefeller and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations’ Alliance for Another Green Revolution Will Not Solve the Problems of Poverty and Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Eric Holt-Gimenez, Ph.D., Miguel A. Altieri, Ph.D., and Peter Rosset, Ph.D.
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
October 2006
