Bust the trust to take back control of our food
By Siena Chrisman, WhyHunger
There are 2 million farmers and 300 million consumers in the U.S. Standing in the middle are a handful of corporations who control just about everything that happens to our food between the farm and our plate ... how much it costs, how it's grown, where it comes from, what's in it, and who sells it. Most of what probably matters to you about why food isn’t healthier, safer, tastier, or all around better is affected by that narrow bottleneck of power standing between producers and consumers.
Alternet interview with Food First Fellow, Raj Patel
There's No Such Thing as a Free Market -- Just a Matter of Who Pays for It
Raj Patel argues that the corporate capture of government and our current financial crisis are the result of our bankrupt political system.
February 19, 2010 |
Corporate Agribusiness Helps Scuttle Climate Justice
by John E. Peck, executive director, Family Farm Defenders
David Bacon Photos and Stories
The issues of our times: Iraq, the U.S.-Mexico border, Roe vs Wade, schools, labor
A Strong Climate Justice Movement Emerges from the Wreckage of Copenhagen
Climate Justice Now, a coalition of social movements and civil society groups from around the world recently released this statement on the global movement emerging from the official disaster in Copenhagen:
Call for “system change not climate change” unites global movement
Corrupt Copenhagen ‘accord’ exposes gulf between peoples demands and elite interests
Raindrops keep falling on my head, but that don’t mean the water’s free
By Heather Quinlan
Water is an essential input for both farms and gardens. Who controls water determines who controls our food system. Major multinational water corporations continue to push to buy up water systems around the world. The current global recession makes many communities vulnerable to accepting the substantial up-front payments offered in return for long-term private leases of water systems.
Notes from Copenhagen: Panel with Secretary Vilsack Emphasizes Agrofuels, GM
by Annie Shattuck
At an event today at the Climate Summit in Copenhagen US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, along with the Danish Minister of Agriculture, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, a representative from the Brazilian government and the president of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers, an industry group made up of mostly larger scale farmers, discussed food security in the context of climate change.
Global Markets and Biotech: Nominating Rajiv Shah to run USAID
December 7, 2009
Contact Eric Holt-Giménez at eholtgim (at) foodfirst.org or call 510-654-4400.
By Eric Holt-Giménez
Now landsmen all, whoever you may be,
If you want to rise to the top of the tree,
If your soul isn't fettered to an office stool,
Be careful to be guided by this golden rule--
Stick close to your desks and never go to sea,
And you all may be rulers of the Queen's Navee!
H.M.S. Pinafore (Gilbert and Sullivan)
Food Aid in Africa: A Profitable Business
By Shoshana Perrey
EDITOR"S NOTE: A previous version of this piece had a reference that, though correctly referenced, taken out of context does not represent the views of Food First, and has been removed.
Documentary--From the Field to the Pot: Rural Commercialism and Fair Trade
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By Elizabeth Martinez