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Family Farmers, Consumer Advocates, and Organized Labor to Feds: Bust Up Big Ag

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:17:36 -0500

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 2, 2010
12:40 PM

CONTACT: Food Policy & Farm Advocates

David Goodner, Iowa CCI, 515.282.0484, david@iowacci.org
Dave Murphy, Food Democracy Now!, 917.968.7369, dave@fooddemocracynow.org
Patty Lovera, Food and Water Watch, 202.683.2465, plover@fwwatch.org
Kathy Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition, 202.421.4544, kozer@nffc.net

Food democracy townhall meeting in Ankeny, IA one day prior to the federal anti-trust workshop will push DOJ, USDA, and Congress to bust the trusts and put people before profits

Via Campesina North America calls first public hearing to prepare the presentation of the GM Maize case before international courts

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:47:38 -0500

Delegation (Mexico, United States, Canada) of La Via Campesina, North America Region, upon the occasion of the FAO Conference on Agricultural Biotechnologies in Developing Countries.

Small Family Farms in Tropics Can Feed the Hungry and Preserve Biodiversity

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:02:10 -0500

ScienceDaily (Feb. 24, 2010) — Conventional wisdom among many ecologists is that industrial-scale agriculture is the best way to produce lots of food while preserving biodiversity in the world's remaining tropical forests. But two University of Michigan researchers reject that idea and argue that small, family-owned farms may provide a better way to meet both goals.

To the governments and organizations gathered in Montreal on the situation in Haiti

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:34:54 -0500

January 25, 2010

The recent tragedy in Haiti shocked the people of the world for its
destructive impact, the environmental and social consequences, and
especially for the loss of human lives. Unfortunately, natural
disasters are not new in that Caribbean country, which was impacted in
2008 by hurricanes Hanna and Ike.

Nor is it the first time we have watched the international community
make pledges of cooperation and assistance to Haiti. We are concerned,
as organizations and social movements and on the basis of permanent

New report highlights tools to fight hunger and fix the food system

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:27:43 -0500

OAKLAND, CA: Just weeks after the USDA announced that one in seven Americans would go hungry at some point in 2009, a new report from Food First and the Community Food Security Coalition highlights a useful tool that city, state and local governments can use to fight hunger, diet-related diseases and other symptoms of a failing food system. Food Policy Councils: Lessons Learned is based on an in-depth survey of 48 Food Policy Councils established in North America over the past 30 years, and comes up with some surprising, hopeful stories.

Take Back Control of Your Food System

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:49:31 -0500

December 16, 2009

There are two million farmers and 300 million eaters in the United States. Standing between them are a handful of corporations who control how food gets from one side to the other.

Let’s change the equation.

Let's Look Before We Leap: Civil Society calls for Technology Assessment as part of any Copenhagen deal

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:32:42 -0500

-December 4, 2009

[Technology transfer is one of the four key topics being discussed under

U.S. groups call for leadership from the Obama administration at the World Summit on Food Security

admin — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:17:59 -0500

Rome – As the World Summit on Food Security begins next week in Rome, U.S. civil society organizations expressed concern with the Obama administration’s support for increasing intensive, large-scale agriculture production and trade expansion as a solution to rising global hunger—failed approaches that have actually contributed to the global food crisis.

Groups Call for Change to Failed Free Trade Agenda That Has Deepened Global Food, Environmental and Health Crises

admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:09:51 -0500

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ENVIRONMENTAL, CONSUMER, FAMILY FARMER AND FARMWORKER GROUPS DECRY WHITE HOUSE DEFENSE OF PESTICIDE LOBBYIST NOMINATION

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:42:33 -0400

Contacts:
Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, Pesticide Action Network, 415-981-6205 ext 325, mie@panna.org

Katherine Ozer, National Family Farm Coalition, (202) 543-5675, kozer@nffc.net

Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumers Association, (202) 986-6186, alexis@organicconsumers.org

Bill Freese, Center for Food Safety, (202) 547-9359 x14, BFreese@icta.org

Jeannie Economos, Farmworker Association of Florida, (407) 886-5151, farmworkerassoc@aol.com