G-8 Leaders: After 20 Years, It's Time to Listen to Via Campesina
Spanish translation below.
Eric Holt Gimenez, Executive Director, Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy
Honduras: War on the Peasants
By Eric Holt-Giménez and Tanya Kerssen
The Spanish version of this article is below.
El artículo en Español está abajo.
Two more peasants were assassinated by paramilitary units last week in Honduras. This brings the murder of subsistence farmers and indigenous leaders to over 60 since the Honduran coup d’etat in 2009.
Opinion: Land sovereignty
Eric Holt Gimenez argues the need for a pro-active movement based on land sovereignty to fight land grabbing.
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Farming Matters | 28.4 | December 2012
In what activists have dubbed the “global land grab”, transnational investment in land has grabbed media headlines worldwide. While attention has focused on the role of hedge funds, sovereign wealth and foreign purchases of vast tracts of land in Africa and Asia, recent research is uncovering a broader pattern. As land values increase, land ownership is concentrating everywhere – even where there have been few reports of foreign land grabbing.
Cock O’ the Lots: Detroit’s residents fight back a persistent land grab
Huffington Post Blog by Eric Holt-Giménez
November 19, 2012
John Hantz is eager to close the biggest urban land grab since the Dutch bought Manhattan. He has his sights on 1,956 lots (177 acres) owned by the city of Detroit... at 8 cents a square foot.
Editorial - Food and Cities
Urban agriculture: Moving towards food sovereignty?
By Eric Holt-Giménez
Nyeleni Newsletter, Num 11, September 2012
“If natural food is expensive, it becomes luxury food and only rich people are able to afford it. […] Natural food must be available locally at a reasonable price.”
Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution
What Does the Obama Victory Mean for the US Food Justice Movement?
By Eric Holt-Giménez, executive director, Food First
Huffington Post Editorial, November 9, 2012
Read the original.
In a word? Mobilize!
Opinion: What we need is to end hunger
Agri-cultures, published by Farming Matters | 28.3 | September 2012
Eric Holt-Gimenez argues that there is a difference between producing more food and ending hunger.
The US Drought and Global Hunger: What We Know and What We Don't
Read the original Huffington Post blog by Food First's executive director, Eric Holt-Giménez and write a comment.
The failure of the U.S. corn harvests spells a disaster for the world's poor, but not because the poor eat our corn. They don't eat corn-fed livestock from CAFOs either, nor do they fill up at the pump with ethanol-blended gasoline.
Bad Things Don’t Have to Happen: Why the Crisis in Mali Is Important for All of Us
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By Kelly Limes-Taylor
I have always been what my father would call “oversensitive,” “gullible,” “too caring.” The world is a hard, hard place, I was often told.
Bad things happen to people. Get over it. Toughen up.
Green Grabbing our Future at Rio+20
By Eric Holt-Giménez, Executive Director, The Huffington Post, June 21. 2012
