Food First in the News

Alternet interview with Food First Fellow, Raj Patel

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:19:08 -0500

February 19, 2010 |

The Biofuels Bailout: (M)ethadone for our Fuel Addiction?

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:00:39 -0500

The recent announcement by the Obama Administration of renewed support to the bloated biofuels industry has the Brazilians jumping for joy.

The Brazilians? Wait a minute... Yep, here are the latest headlines from UNICA, the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association:

Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Welcomes U.S. EPA's Renewable Fuels Rules

Haiti: Roots of Liberty, Roots of Disaster

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:30:45 -0500

By Eric Holt-Gimenez
First published on the Huffington Post

In overthrowing me, you have cut down in Saint-Domingue only the tree of liberty. It will spring up again by the roots for they are numerous and deep.
-Toussaint L'Ouverture

Why Big Ag Won't Feed the World

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:29:23 -0500

Atlantic Monthly on-line
by Josh Viertel
January 20, 2010

http://food.theatlantic.com/sustainability/why-big-ag-wont-feed-the-worl...

Hunger, Jobs and Water Wars

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:44:29 -0500

Huffington Post
January 7, 2010

By Eric Holt-Gimenez and Zoe Brent

FRESNO, CALIFORNIA: Food aid is rolling in to the breadbasket of California. In Fresno County, the state's most productive agricultural area, a hunger crisis has been unfolding for the better part of a year. Some 90,000 people a week lined up at local food banks this holiday season, many of them farm workers. Owing to what he declared a "drought disaster" California Governor Schwarzenegger delivered $4 million in food aid to Fresno last June. This winter he pledged to extend the aid indefinitely.

Means and Ways to Build a Sustainable Food System

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:03:17 -0500

Civil Eats and Common Dreams 1-4-2010

by Jen Dalton

I spent a day volunteering at the SF Food Bank over the holidays and spending hours sorting through canned goods really got me thinking. What will it will take to stop hunger and what it will take to transform our current food system so that it's good clean and fair?

Africa Today interview with Eric Holt-Gimenez on Food Rebellions

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:37:19 -0500

Walter Turner interviews Eric Holt-Gimenez on KPFA's Africa Today.

Africa Today - December 21, 2009 at 7:00pm

Radio interview with Eric Holt-Giménez on USDA Report on Rising Hunger in the U.S.

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:43:54 -0500

IRIB English Radio correspondent Mehran Derakhshandeh has interviewed Eric Holt-Giménez, executive director of Food First/ The Institute of Food and Development Policy, a non-governmental organization, on a recent Washington Post report that says the economic crisis in America has resulted in nearly 50 million Americans going hungry or struggling to find enough food to feed themselves.

http://english.irib.ir/index.php/interviews/27985-eric-holt-gimenez-2311...

Is Biotechnology Really the Only Way to Solve Hunger?

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:46:01 -0500

By Vanessa Barrington
November 18, 2009
As the World Summit on Food Security convenes in Rome this week, world leaders will debate how best to combat worsening worldwide hunger and escalating food prices. Biotechnology will most certainly be on the table.
As a polarizing subject, biotechnology has no peer.
On the one hand, it has potential to raise crop yields, increase the nutrient value in food and speed up traditional plant breeding through marker-assisted selection, abiotechnology that does not mix genes of different species.

UN food summit ends in Rome with little progress made in fight against hunger

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:33:06 -0500

November 18, 2009

The UN Food Summit wraps up in Rome today. Leaders signed a declaration to end world hunger, but the meeting concludes without a firm commitment to fund the efforts. And critics say the meeting did little to address food pricing, agriculture development aid, or the effects that hunger has on women - all issues that are critical to confronting the needs of some one billion people who go hungry every night.