Joyce E. King, Ph.D.
President
Joyce E. King, Ph.D. holds the Benjamin E. Mays Chair of Urban Teaching, Learning, and Leadership in the College of Education at Georgia State University. She is a graduate of Stanford University where she received a Doctor of Philosophy in the Social Foundations of Education and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology. As a W.K. Kellogg Foundation Fellowship recipient, Dr. King studied women’s participation in grass roots social change movements in Africa, South America and France.
The Military-Aid Complex, Agrofuels and Land Struggles in Aguan, Honduras
by Tanya Kerssen
The current rural development model, based on agribusiness and land grabbing, is not only worsening poverty levels, but also affecting the food security of the entire rural population. At the same time it is generating intense conflicts that frequently turn into open and systematic violations of people's most basic rights.
-International Fact Finding Mission Report, Bajo Aguan, Honduras, July 2011 [1]
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New Food Sovereignty book released by Fernwood Press, Food First Books, and Fahamu
Food Sovereignty: Reconnecting Food, Nature and Community
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Read the attached excerpt from this October 2010 release edited by Annette Desmarais, Nettie Wiebe, and Hannah Wittman.
Seven of the authors have been affiliated with Food First including current executive director, Eric Holt-Giménez and former executive director Walden Bello.
Order the book here:
http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/3105
News from Copenhagen
Food First policy analyst, Annie Shattuck, is reporting from Copenhagen.
See her commentary under the blog in the right column.
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News from Copenhagen
Food First policy analyst, Annie Shattuck, is reporting from Copenhagen.
See her commentary under the blog in the right column.
You can also follow her from our facebook fan page on the left-hand column.
CALL FOR INDEPENDENT SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION INTO GM CROP FAILURE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF INDEPENDENT MONITORING PANEL
Three varieties of Monsanto’s genetically modified maize failed to produce crops during the 2008/9 growing season, leaving up to 200 000 hectares of fields barren of cobs and crop losses across several provinces in South Africa. According the GRAIN SA, the varieties are: MON 810, NK 603 and MON 810 x NK 603. These seeds were sold to commercial maize farmers and provided to resource poor farmers in South Africa.
The Farmers’ Organizations of Africa Open Letter to G8
The major world powers have created the food and climate crises and should not be the ones to decide global food policies.
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The four regional networks of farmers’ organizations (EAFF, PROPAC, ROPPA, UMAGRI) that represent tens of millions of African Farmers have sent an open letter to the G8. They say that the major world powers should not be the ones to decide global food policies. These countries have created the climate and financial crises, and they have implemented the structural adjustment policies and created the Bretton Woods financial institutions that have allowed multinational corporations to hobble rural people in Africa.
