Notes from México -Development, Crisis, and Movement Building
By Eric Holt-Giménez, executive director, Food First
Spanish version below.
I was invited to give a talk on Food Crises, Food Sovereignty and Rural Development at the IV International Congress on Rural Development in Villahermosa, capital of the torrid state of Tabasco, Mexico. Between the plenary presentations and work sessions what struck me was how much the idea of rural development has changed since the 1970s when I worked as a rural development volunteer in Mexico.
Basically, few people believe in Development anymore.
Journal of Sustainable Agriculture Editorial
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Read the entire editorial in the Journal of Sustainable Agriculture.
July 24, 2012
We Already Grow Enough Food for 10 Billion People … and Still Can't End
Hunger
Eric Holt-Giménez a , Annie Shattuck b , Miguel Altieri b , Hans
Herren c & Steve Gliessman d
a Food First, Oakland, CA
b University of California, Berkeley, CA
c Millennium Institute, Washington, DC
d University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Peasants of the world mobilize against green capitalism in Rio
(Rio de Janeiro, 14 June, 2012)
The People's Summit will bring together an expected 3000 people from around the world to mobilize to say NO to the commodification of life and nature at the Peoples Summit for Social and Environmental Justice and in Defense of the Commons.
Aquaponics Add New Dimension to Urban Farming
By Lauren Anderson
The urban farming movement is gaining momentum. But for areas with limited or contaminated greenspace or a short growing season, aquaponics can be an alternative agricultural system. This new type of urban farm has popped up in underused and empty industrial spaces in a number of declining urban centers.
Rio+20: Opportunity for Change in Agriculture
Originally published by http://www.globalagriculture.org/rio-20/rio-20-and-the-iaastd.html#c2818.... Food First is one of the participants in this Rio+20 statement.
Police-Occupy Stand Off at the Gill Tract Farmland in SF Bay Area
By Jeff Conant, AlterNet, May 11, 2012
Read the original on AlterNet.
Albany CA – When University of California Police arrived at the Occupied Gill Tract yesterday morning at 6 a.m. and began barricading the gates, with some two dozen members of the Gill Tract Farmers Collective inside, word spread quickly that Occupy the Farm was being raided.
How did the Farmers react?
By planting tomatoes.
Food Rebellions workshop at the Gill Tract Farm, Saturday, May 12, 2012
Food First's executive director, Eric Holt-Giménez and former policy director, Annie Shattuck leading a workshop at the Gill Tract Farm.
Rio+20 - The scaling up of Agroecology: spreading the hope for food sovereignty and resiliency
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We already grow enough food for 10 billion people… and still can’t end hunger
May 2, 2012, Huffington Post Blog by Eric Holt-Giménez
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/world-hunger_b_1463429.h...
A new a study* from McGill University and the University of Minnesota published in the journal Nature compared organic and conventional yields from 66 studies and over 300 trials. Researchers found that on average, conventional systems out-yielded organic farms by 25%—mostly for grains, and depending on conditions.
Food Sovereignty in Action at the Gill Tract in Albany, California USA
Report by Food First intern, Vishrut Arya. April 24, 2012
This past Sunday, April 22, Earth Day, about two hundred farmers, families, and activists gathered for a potluck at Ohlone Park in Berkeley to celebrate the Earth and food sovereignty.
The idea of Food sovereignty, promoted by the international small farmer movement, La Via Campesina is that communities have the right to control their own equitable and sustainable food systems, including access to land, fresh water, and seed.
